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international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday November 15, 2009 - 20:15 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather writes on how workers confidence has increased in the ongoing demonstrations in Iran. While the militias beat many protesters, they were also opposed and in some cases forced to retreat. Full text at link. No-one in Iran will ever forget November 4 2009. It was the day when illegal demonstrations in at least six separate locations in Tehran and 20 cities and university campuses throughout the country overshadowed the state-organised event. As the national broadcasting service was showing live pictures of the gathering outside the former US embassy, shouts of “Death to the dictator” from protesters on neighbouring streets and squares were so loud that it was difficult to hear the minister’s speech. In Tehran the six locations were Enghelab Square, Ferdowsi, Haft Tir, Enghelab Square, Vali Asr and Vanak Square. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Friday November 13, 2009 - 19:55 by pat c
Yassamine Mather interviews Ali Pichgah a leader of the Iranian oilworkers strikers during the revolutionary period.Ali emphasises the importance of opposing all Imperialist sanctions. Full text of interview at link How do you evaluate the recent political protests and the role of the working class in them? The protest against the regime’s rigged elections took such dimensions because the majority of the population are opposed to the absence of political freedoms in Iran. In particular the youth, who constitute a high percentage of the population, feel contempt for the way the religious state interferes in their private lives. People are losing patience and in general opposition to the regime has reached unprecedented levels. I think what is different this time is the terrible economic situation. Inflation above 25%, mass unemployment, the growing gap between rich and the poor ... and from this point of view one can say that the relentless workers’ struggles of the last two years against job losses and poverty, against non-payment of wages, as well as the demonstrations by teachers, nurses and so on against the economic policies of the government, were precursors to the huge demonstrations we saw this summer. Of course, many of these protests were defensive (wage-earners trying to maintain what little they had), yet the working class has remained the most persistent opposition to the entire regime over the last few years, in the run-up to June 2009. Coincidently we see the continuation of the mass protests of early summer in the unprecedented level of workers’ struggles in recent weeks, the victory of the Iran Khodro workers (where the regime clearly retreated), the revolutionary tactics of Pars Wagon workers (from ransacking the refectory to mounting hunger strikes), workers bringing their families along to demonstrations . ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday November 09, 2009 - 14:26 by pat c
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An important study which illustrates the paucity of US media reports of civilian deaths in Iraq. hence it is hardly shocking that US citizens are unaware tof the true extent of civilian casualties. Full story at related link. In February of 2007 Associated Press conducted a survey of 1,002 adults across the United States about their perceptions of the war in Iraq. Whilst the respondents accurately estimated the death toll of U.S. soldiers (the median estimate was 2,974 while the actual toll at the time was 3,100), they grossly underestimated the number of Iraqi civilian casualties (the median answer was 9,890 at a time when several estimates put the toll at least 10 times that number and some as high as 50 times that number). ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday November 09, 2009 - 14:16 by indyjourno
THE HEALTH Service Executive is examining substantial fees paid by dozens of health service bodies and agencies to employer’s body Ibec. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday November 04, 2009 - 12:27 by tomeile
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Britain:NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear has spoken out against threats to reporters by Islamophobic racists. Dear called for “tough and urgent action” against the EDL and other Islaophobic and racist groups after reporter , Marc Vallée, and video journalist, Jason N. Parkinson, were intimidated verbally and by email for their coverage of an EDL march last weekend. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday October 31, 2009 - 13:48 by Basque Country Information
Brian Currin, a South African attorney working as a mediator, said the left-wing nationalist movement should not stop putting forward new initiatives despite the arrest of its top members. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Sunday October 25, 2009 - 00:55 by FL
An interesting short film about the revolt in Athens Greece December 2008. you can download from indymedia athens: http://www.black-tracker.gr/details.php?id=311 (Subtitles in engish included) ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 23, 2009 - 15:44 by Peter Sutherland's Nemesis
The vote at the European Parliament was on a "motion condemning interference in the media and calling for legislation banning media monopolies in EU countries was defeated" thanks to Fianna Fail and Fine Gael. The majority of the sycophantic media in Ireland will no doubt ignore this story - and fair play and thank you to The Irish Examiner for printing it. So ... there's no fear for Tony & Gavin O'Reilly's "Independent News and Media" or for Denis O'Brien's "Comunicorp" semi--and-growing-monopolies of Irish newspaper and radio respectively, when we see the cringing support given from Ireland's FF and FG Members of the European Parliament to Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi. Gobshite right winger Thatcherite embarrassements that they are. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday October 23, 2009 - 15:34 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather analyses the development of the struggle in Iran following the rigged presidential elections. She critiques the Green Movement and points to the for support of the Iranian Left and the struggles of the Iranian Working class. Yassamine also illustrates how ordinary Iranians suffer most from Sanctions. Full text at link. Every day for the last few weeks Iranian workers have been protesting, at times in their thousands - at their workplaces, outside government offices and provincial offices complaining about job losses, non-payment of wages, privatisation ... Universities have been the scene of daily protests and ordinary people have used every opportunity, even football matches, to express their opposition to the regime. At the same time a new wave of exiles, including reporters, writers, professors of literature, are leaving the country, despairing of continued repression and the ineffective ‘reformist’ leaders. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Friday October 16, 2009 - 06:07 by Citizen X
From the preamble to the document: "In January 2002 the Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) became an autonomous Paris-based agency of the European Union. Following an EU Council Joint Action of 20 July 2001, modified by the Joint Action of 21 December 2006, it is now an integral part of the new structures that will support the further development of the CFSP/ESDP [common foreign and security policy and european security and defence policy]. The Institute's core mission is to provide analyses and recommendations that can be of use and relevance to the formulation of the European security and defence policy. In carrying out that mission, it also acts as an interface between European experts and decision-makers at all levels." ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Friday October 16, 2009 - 05:00 by Citizen X
Courtesy of intelnews.org: http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/01-273/ Charles Haughey, Ireland’s Taoiseach (head of government) in the late 1970s, and on two instances in the 1980s, used audio surveillance devices supplied by a British security officer to spy on his domestic political opponents. Of course, the guy making the allegation is hawking a book... ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday October 08, 2009 - 16:08 by Anne Mc Shane
Article analysing the results of the referendum and the current crisis in Irish society. Points to the lessons for the left, the dangers of just calling for a no vote and the prospects for struggle. It seems to have become the norm here in Ireland for the government to repeat a referendum when it does not like the result of the first ballot. While farcical, these bullying tactics have a proven record of success. For an establishment intent on getting its own way, ‘no’ never really means ‘no’. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday October 07, 2009 - 14:37 by Catholic Worker
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61 anti-war activists arrested at the White House on the 8th. anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. Those arrested included members of Catholic Worker communities, Code Pink, War Resisters League and Witness Against Torture. See link below for photos/video/reports of the action...... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday October 03, 2009 - 12:18 by Bazooka Joe
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As Israel tries to manoever the world into accepting it bombing Iran the propaganda war is raging. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday October 02, 2009 - 15:42 by Yassamine Mather
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Yassamine Mather writes on how the Iranian Regime uses threats from the imperialists to justify the oppression of Iranian workers, students and womens rights activists. Full story at url below. The dramatic statements by Obama, Brown and Sarkozy about Iran’s undisclosed nuclear enrichment plant, made on the first day of the G20 gathering in Pittsburgh, were clearly intended to prepare the world for a new conflict in the Middle East. But this is old news. US and UK secret services had known about it for at least 3 years - Israel and France also knew about it and delivered their finding to the International Atomic Energy Agency earlier this year. So what was the main purpose of the Obama-Sarkozy-Brown show on September 25? Could it be it was directed mainly to audiences in the US, UK and France, to convince them that, at a time of economic uncertainty, western leaders have to deal with a ‘major external threat’ posed by Iran’s nuclear development? ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday September 30, 2009 - 19:29 by Bloggy Joe
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An article that exposes Makhno as a counter-revolutionary ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday September 30, 2009 - 18:17 by pat c
The struggle continues. Thousands of Tehran University students thronged the streets around the university’s main entrance protesting against the Iranian Regime. At Alameh Amini Auditorium where the Science Minister, Kamran Daneshjoo was supposed to be taking part in the opening ceremonies, students ripped up posters and demanded the expulsion of the minister from campus forcing the security forces to fire tear gas and close the campus gates. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Wednesday September 30, 2009 - 09:49 by paul o toole
Is all not well in the Yes Camp??? A text poll conducted on Newstalk No-66% / / Yes-34%. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday September 29, 2009 - 11:01 by Anne McShane
Article written for the Weekly Worker setting out an analysis of the current crisis, the prospects for left unity and the need for a united European working class. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Sunday September 27, 2009 - 15:23 by tomeile
For the past four months the on-line archives section of the CPGB Weekly Worker website have been unavailable following a viscous cyber attack by as yet unidentified hackers . ... read full story / add a comment |
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