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international / history and heritage Wednesday May 27, 2009 - 19:47 by iosaf
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June 2nd 1967 was a watershed in German postwar history so pivotal that the date would be used by a terrorist grouping as their name. Benno Ohnesorg was shot dead by a policeman. Ohnesorg had been peacefully protesting the visit of the then Shah of Iran to the then West Berlin. It has now emerged the policeman in question, Karl-Heinz Kurras had been a member of the STASI since 1955 though there is no evidence he was acting on their orders at the time of the shooting. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Monday May 25, 2009 - 20:22 by erudite type
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Reuters and other newswires are carrying an Iranian story in the last hour that the revolutionary guard have arrested 114 "devil worshippers" and seized drugs and alcohol during a party in a southern city. "Cutting (their own) skin and sucking up the blood was among the indecent behavior of the group," Mehr News Agency quoted Colonel Abbas Hamedi of Iran's Revolutionary Guards in the city of Shiraz as saying. He said a Guards intelligence unit launched an investigation into the all-male group about one year ago, leading to their arrest Sunday evening. "The group's aim was to promote irreligious behavior," Hamedi, adding they had posted footage of their parties on the Internet. The Islamic Republic, which bans alcohol and narcotics, last year said it would launch a crackdown on "indecent Western-inspired movements" such as rappers and satanists. Which all sounds dandy to the general public who probably don't know about the Melak Taus ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday May 25, 2009 - 09:06 by CWI
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Following the defeat of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka by the army, the govt is using this victory as an opportunity to remove all and any opposition to their hold on power and have drawn up a death list of people they want to get rid of.
One of those is the United Socialist Party leader who has been put on death list ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday May 24, 2009 - 23:09 by Terence
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This recent article is very interesting because of the facts and figures presented in it. It reviews the latest situation on the current global economic crisis and presents a brief history of the relative state and strength of the labour movement and the top wealthy elite. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday May 24, 2009 - 15:21 by john throne
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Some years ago a group of Comrades were expelled from the Irish Socialist Party and the Socialist Party's international organization. I John throne was amongst these. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Saturday May 23, 2009 - 16:11 by spare the rod spoil the childer
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Branislav Peranovic is the "archpriest" (orthodox equivalent to dean's rank) who has run the "Novi Pazar" drug rehabilitation centre since 2003. Video footage shown on Thursday night on Serbian TV,& being widely picked up throughout European media, clearly shows inmates being beaten, a regular occurence which Peranovic justifies completely telling press that a "heavy hand" is needed and that anyone who has a "junkie in their home" would understand this. He further insists that parents of his "patients" approve the regime which is now to be investigated by the Serbian state who understandably consider the whole thing to be torture. One former inmate describes how patients put their trousers bottoms in their socks before their beatings knowing that they will lose bowel control & in common parlance "shit themselves" but at least it won't go over the carpet or tiles. ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / politics / elections Friday May 22, 2009 - 17:22 by Dave
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A satirical look at one of the candidates in the upcoming elections in Ireland on June 5th. The performer is Paul Kelly from Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday May 21, 2009 - 03:48 by Ciaron
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For those who knew him and knew of him we are shocked and saddened by the killing of Larry in Guatamela. Larry served the poor in the streets of the U.S. and at the bloody edges of the empire.....El Salvador, Brazil, Guatamela. His nonviolent resistance was steadfast from the draft board raids of the Vietnam War to the School of the Americas at Ft. Benning and many places between. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday May 19, 2009 - 12:23 by Philip Ikurusi.
2 comments (last - sunday june 07, 2009 - 16:27)
Call For Immediate Action to Stop the Attacks on Niger Delta Civilians by Nigerian Military – Statement From Sweet Crude, a Documentary Film About the Niger Delta Crisis ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment Monday May 18, 2009 - 00:56 by IT reader
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Does Peter Murtagh have a relationship with the PR department of Shell? Do Conor Lally's "security cources" wear blue uniforms? Why has no one been charged with the break in on the Shell compound where someone supposedly started a digger and tore down a fence? Did anyone take a picture of this attack? Why did the security guards run away? How is that the security guard with the injured arm has never been named nor photographed? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday May 16, 2009 - 19:31 by pat c
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While the Taliban are certainly inficting misery on the people of Pakistan its important to remember that Obamas Drones are raining missiles on Northern Pakistan. Just like the missiles in Afghanistan these ones have a habit of hitting civilian targets. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Saturday May 16, 2009 - 09:27 by Blacbloc
3 comments (last - friday may 22, 2009 - 00:14)
Shell are obviously in full-on panic mode juding from their favourite spin-meister, Mr Kevin Myers, at the Independent this morning. A little taste of his own medicine here on p.ie: http://www.politics.ie/media/69118-kevin-myers-pens-ano....html See his article at the link over there. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 15, 2009 - 15:48 by saeed
To: Worker and Human Rights Organisations and Activists ... read full story / add a comment 
international / eu Thursday May 14, 2009 - 23:03 by gurggle
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"Internationalist initiative" is a political alliance grouping formed to contest the EU parliament 2009 elections in the European constituency of the Spanish state. Its leader is the 93 year old, Madrid born, writer, dramatist, script-writer and Spanish film-director Alfonso Sastre, perhaps best known for being a member of the "1955 generation" of creative artists whose output and activity coincided with the opening of the Franco regime's attitude to art and literature which came along with its acceptance by the west under Eisenhower. Mr Sastre was also third on the last list presented by ANV the illegalised Basque political party deemd to be a proxy of Batasuna. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Thursday May 14, 2009 - 19:00 by Socialism or Barbarism
Article reviewing impact of bank bailout from a marxist perspective. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday May 14, 2009 - 16:48 by Ronoc
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A Guardian journalist has been arrested for taking a photo at this years Bilderberg meeting. "You know your day's gone badly when it ends with you being shouted at in a Greek police station." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/14/bilderberg-...patch ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Thursday May 14, 2009 - 12:16 by Joe Higgins.eu
There will be live streaming of a debate between the candidates for the Dublin Euro Elections 2009, organised by the European Anti- Poverty Network. 14.00-16.00 today, Thursday 14 May 2009. Confirmed speakers: Joe Higgins (www.JoeHiggins.eu), Eoin Ryan MEP, Gay Mitchell MEP, Proinsias De Rossa MEP, Mary Lou McDonald MEP, Senator Deirdre De Burca. Click the link to watch. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday May 14, 2009 - 10:34 by Joe Higgins
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As venture capitalists seal their plan to smash 1,150 jobs at SR Technics by selling off the Landing Gear and Auxiliary Power Unit, the Irish Government and trade union leadership are in a state of pathetic paralysis. They simply stand by and allow the dictatorship of the market to lay waste to an invaluable industry and source of jobs. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections Wednesday May 13, 2009 - 16:30 by Joe Higgins.eu
The first two election leaflets of Joe Higgins’ Euro Election Campaign are now available online. The first, the black and red one, is solely focused on the Euro campaign and has been distributed around the city by volunteers. The second, in full colour, is for both the Local and Euro elections, and has been distributed in Dublin West, in the Castelknock Ward in which Joe is also standing for the local election. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday May 12, 2009 - 22:47 by José Antonio Gutiérrez D.
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A denunciation of the atrocities perpetrated against the Tamil people in Sri Lanka, of the distortions fed by its government to the international media and of the need to step up solidarity with the Tamil people in their struggle for self-determination. Please show your support tomorrow Wednesday 13th at 13,30 in the dáil, Kildare Street in a protest organised by the Stop the Slaughter of Tamils Campaign. ... read full story / add a comment |
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