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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday March 13, 2008 - 12:18 by pat c
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Peter Tatchell writes below on the case of Yaghub Mehrnehad and others under sentence of death in Iran. An Iranian Baluch journalist and civil rights campaigner, Yaghub Mehrnehad, aged 28, has been sentenced to death for an unknown offence, after torture and an unfair trial conducted behind closed doors, according to Amnesty International. His execution is imminent. He is likely to be hanged in public, using the barbaric slow strangulation method favoured by the Tehran regime. It is deliberately designed to maximise the pain and prolong the suffering of the victim. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday March 13, 2008 - 11:00 by D_D
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This new site compiles the documents and debate around the split in Respect and provides a forum for the politics of non-sectarian left renewal and regroupment. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday March 12, 2008 - 22:49 by redjade
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international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday March 12, 2008 - 18:58 by pat c
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workers in struggle is a new publication which brings together trade unionists, socialists and other activists in solidarity with the workers movement in the Middle East. Articles in this issue include: strike wave rocks egypt On Sunday 16th February, more than 10,000 workers from the Spinning and Weaving Company textile mill in the Nile Delta city of Mahalla el-Kubra staged a mass demonstration against low wages, price rises and Hosni Mubarak’s authoritarian regime. ... read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues Tuesday March 11, 2008 - 23:50 by redjade
yes, Nigeria is still an issue... ... read full story / add a comment
galway / consumer issues Tuesday March 11, 2008 - 12:28 by Sarah OWC
The finals of the Galway Fair-trade Committee’s JUST DESSERTS desert making competition attracted over Two Hundred and Fifty people to the Galway City Museum last Friday. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Tuesday March 11, 2008 - 11:19 by Equalizer1948
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Break the Silence ! Check out this music video by the Palestinian musician Doc Jazz. Contains highly graphic images, so be warned! ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Monday March 10, 2008 - 21:57 by ec
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Interesting news. This is a first of a kind legal case in Europe. Originally from RTE I think. ... read full story / add a comment 
meath / history and heritage Monday March 10, 2008 - 18:06 by Tom Dick and Harry
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Alternative uses for Tara tunnel system (if the NRA give up on destroying the Tara valley) : Bertie Ahern could stash mooney in the tunnels for a while, until he gets his bank accounts sorted. Dermot Ahern could be looking up the trees. Storage of E-voting machines Carbon Capture Place for the Labour Party to dump the weapons they inherited from the Workers Party Westlife CD's could be buried in the tunnels Paintballing dungeons and dragons style Underground electricity cables natural gas pipeline Westlife could be buried there (that's enough uses for Tara tunnels- Ed) ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday March 08, 2008 - 18:22 by Seán Ryan
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When presented with a Bill from Congress today, a bill that would have outlawed waterboarding amongst other criminal acts, President Bush simply vetoed it. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality Friday March 07, 2008 - 14:33 by pat c
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Here is an Amnesty International article on Parvin Ardalan and how she was prevented from leaving Iran. Iranian feminist and journalist Parvin Ardalan was prevented from leaving Iran on Sunday to travel to Sweden where she was to receive the 2007 Olof Palme Prize in Stockholm. She said that after she boarded a plane at Tehran airport she was told that she was not permitted to leave the country. "They took my passport and said I could get it back after 72 hours," she said. "The only reason for this move is to prevent me from taking part in the ceremony." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday March 07, 2008 - 12:20 by Sean Crudden
Does psychiatric back-up improve the effectiveness of an army? Will it help to mitigate the effects of war? Is all war madness? Are psychiatrists and mental health professionals colluding in a chaotic and destructive adventure? ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Thursday March 06, 2008 - 00:44 by Pollytix
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'The problem for the senior vice-president of technology at Phorm, an Aim-listed company which recently tied up a deal with the UK's three biggest internet service providers - BT, Virgin Media and TalkTalk, who between them have more than 10 million customers - is that it's not the privacy groups who he really needs to convince. It's the millions of people whose services will be affected by Phorm's scheme, because some are up in arms over what they see as an invasion of their privacy through Phorm's intention to categorise all of their web-surfing habits in order to target online ads at them.' ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Tuesday March 04, 2008 - 11:40 by Drew
The latest edition of THE RED STAR, Nepal's National Magazine is now available on line. There are articles on the upcoming election, Indian Expansionism, ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday March 04, 2008 - 09:13 by OZ
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Satirical clip (very funny) on Peter Garrett former lead singer of radical rock group "Midnight Oil now Australian government minister does yet another backflip on U.S. bases, uranium etc etc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIsJCR6w1Vg ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday March 03, 2008 - 15:57 by pat c
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The lead articles in this issue are about Mahmoud Saleh; and the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Company workers. Full text at link. Mahmoud Salehi Mahmoud Salehi, the founding member of the Committee of the Trade Association of Bakery Workers, Saqez - Kurdistan, and founding member and spokesperson of The Coordinating Committee to Form Workers Organisations is still being held in prison despite a serious deterioration in his health. Haft Tapeh Workers The workers of state-owned Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Company have issued a statement detailing their on-going struggle and resolution to form their own independent labour organisation. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Saturday March 01, 2008 - 18:02 by Feminist Polemix
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This being a leap year, anyone who wants to jump the broom and get the Alpha male should have proposed last night... Today, was the annual (instituted in 1947) Filene's 'Running of the Brides' . Thousands of young brides go haywire trying to buy a wedding gown in the bargain basement of a huge Department store. It's a blood sport where the winners are those that can squeeze their figures into a knock-down Vera Wang or some such label. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism Saturday March 01, 2008 - 17:07 by Asqar Karimi
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Asqar Karimi of the Worker-communist Party of Iran appeals for solidarity to isolate the Iranian Dictatorship and to to help the Iranian People to overthrow this brutal regime. Full text at the link. To the people of the world! To trade unions, student unions, women’s rights organisations! 3 Labour activists were flogged in Sanandaj and 8 others are to be flogged for taking part in a May Day rally! The Islamic Republic has taken another step against the working class and all the people in Iran. Their aim is to silence, crush and dehumanize. Its what the slave driver did 20 centuries ago. This time, however, they are dealing with a working class that has no intention of submitting; a working class whose struggles and leaders are known to the whole world. ·Official figures say, in the past 10 months,1 million women have been arrested, fined and/or flogged for not being dressed as demanded by the Islamic government and for courtship with the opposite sex; ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Saturday March 01, 2008 - 14:14 by JM
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Neighbours of Norfolk's giant gas terminal are today pondering how close they came to disaster after a blast rocked the seaside complex. ... read full story / add a comment 
New housing poster produced by Belfast WSM ... read full story / add a comment |
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