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national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 30, 2005 - 12:58 by Shell Suit
international / anti-capitalism Friday September 30, 2005 - 02:13 by John Meehan
 2 comments (last - sunday october 09, 2005 - 02:12)
There has beena significant walkout of Left activists from the Brazilian Workers Party (PT), to join the Party of Socialism and Freedom (P-SOL). Reports at this link : http://212.67.202.147/%7Eivnet05/print_article.php3?id_article=877 ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Friday September 30, 2005 - 01:26 by iosaf
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2 case examples from this week on how treat old people. Both examples are wrinkly old social caring types, who protested against differing aspects of Blair's New Labour regime. One a retired social worker protesting £53.71 in council tax arrears. The other a stop the war troublemaking yobo on pills. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Thursday September 29, 2005 - 22:46 by Ciarán
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Analysis by Mike Davis of the full meaning of Hurrican Katrina. A reasonably long article but well worth reading. Davis being the one commentator who predicted almost precisely the social impact of a hurricane striking New Orleans. See the following link: http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2004/09/09_414.html Article courtesy of Le Monde Diplomatique ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Thursday September 29, 2005 - 19:08 by Helena Escoda
Every year a bull is darded in the blood fiesta in Coria, Spain. ... read full story / add a comment
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 29, 2005 - 17:34 by TM
2 comments (last - friday october 07, 2005 - 00:36)
The bitter internal Labour Party row in Sligo took another twist this morning with confirmation by Clr. Declan Bree that he is to lodge an official complaint against party leader, Mr. Pat Rabbitte, accusing him of bringing the party into disrepute. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday September 29, 2005 - 09:07 by Werner Seppmann, Germany
Reductionist worldviews promise "order" in the mixed-up social consciousness..Psychoanalysis has coined the term "regression" for this process of escapism.. Psychic regression involves withdrawal to a state of original immediacy, an earlier less complex stage of the psyche. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday September 28, 2005 - 10:04 by mick
www.socialistworker.org.uk ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday September 27, 2005 - 20:50 by R.Isible
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The always excellent Harry Browne comments on the supposedly historic decommisioning of IRA weapons and the abandonment of socialist principles by Sinn Fein in a Counterpunch article. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Tuesday September 27, 2005 - 18:57 by Ohdear
"My biggest mistake was not recognizing by Saturday that Louisiana was dysfunctional," AP Report ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday September 26, 2005 - 23:27 by Paul O´Hanlon
This is an 800 word article about the demonstration outside the US embassy in Madrid on Saturday 24th September. 17 photos are attached. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday September 26, 2005 - 20:02 by Roger Eldridge
11 comments (last - saturday october 08, 2005 - 18:44) 1 image
The reality of life within the totalitarian feminist regime of Britain continues to unfold. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Monday September 26, 2005 - 18:24 by jotter - I'm taking names. you're going in the book.
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The courts of spain have today passed sentance on a number of people who have stood accused of forming an Al Qaeda ring in europe and beyond with direct links to the terrorist event of September 11. Amongst those who have been sentanced wa the "star reporter" with the Arabic-language satellite TV station Al Jazeera, Tayseer Allouni. Allouni is famous for being the first journalist to see Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden after the 11 September attacks in the United States, interviewing him on 21 October 2001. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday September 26, 2005 - 13:24 by iosaf
6 comments (last - saturday october 22, 2005 - 12:22)
Its the Chinese and the internet again. The Chinese love the internet, their state doesn't. & in the last days their state has updated its rules and regulations on internet use and made quite a list of transgressions. They are also asking the public to help information departments at all levels to supervise news sites & report them if the stories are unhealthy. "A new regulation on online news services was issued jointly on Sunday by the State Council Information Office (SCIO) and the Ministry of Information Industry. Under this regulation, online news sites that publish fabricated content, pornography or violence face severe punishment or even closure." ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Saturday September 24, 2005 - 14:56 by I forget
We really have a lot to learn from the German elections. only one party enjoyed a sizeable increase in its votes and representation, and no-one wants to involve it in government. Instead the two largest parties who both reduced their votes, and deputies want to be the next government. ... read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues Saturday September 24, 2005 - 14:19 by iosaf
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Nigeria produces 2.4 million barrels per day, 200,000 more barrels than have just been cancelled from the production of the USA. Understandably therefore any threat made to the Oil fields is big news. the "Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force" (NDPVF) yesterday made just that threat, if their leader Moujahid Dkubo-Asari arrested on the 20th of September is not released within 48 hours. Chevron have closed platforms and evacuated workers as have Shell - Nigeria's production is down 19,000 barrels according to british sources 26,000 barrels according to other sources. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday September 24, 2005 - 13:08 by jordan
The BBC report that a debate on the Times Educational Supplement forum and other websites has shown that some kids names suggest polite, intelligent, shrewd, quick learner useful members of society:- Kate, Gregory, Sean, Charlotte, Jamie, Daniel, Lucy, Isobel, Ben, Sam, Harpreet, Imran, Asam, Alice and Joseph. And some others are "trouble" Bobbi-Jo, Kloe, K'tee, Kristopher, Jayne, Wayne, Charlie, Liam, Ryan ... read full story / add a comment ![The area of Europe affected (note the satellite image was taken on a good day) [the red stuff is polution, its not political] {¿ or is it?} :-)](../cache/imagecache/local/attachments/sep2005/100_75_1_1_5_0_0_0_0_0_black_sea.jpg "The area of Europe affected (note the satellite image was taken on a good day) [the red stuff is polution, its not political] {¿ or is it?} :-)")
international / eu Friday September 23, 2005 - 23:31 by 7th fold bouncy castle
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The area of Europe's Black Sea coast has been hit by extreme storms in the last 36 hours, with 6 officially reported dead in rumania, and 25 deaths in the last week in Bulgaria. North Eastern Bulgaria is in a state of emergency. At the moment the coast from the ports of Constanta and Varna ( in both Romania and Bulgaria) are flooded. This area represents key installation interests for eastern Europe energy and import concerns. Bulgaria is meeting the EU & /EC to discuss its full entry process. The previous summer 2005 floods which caused 8,727 houses, 20,277 households, 162 institutions, 56,171 hectares of agricultural land and 8,635 wells. and infrastructure damaged included 1,688 bridges and small bridges, 2,106 km of roads, 29 hydro-technical constructions, electrical, phone networks and 566 power converting stations are not on the agenda. Flood surges from the last 24 hour rains are being felt inland along the Danube estuary. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Friday September 23, 2005 - 17:57 by Dottie
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Postcard Initiative of the Galway Shell to Sea Campaign could be used around the country ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday September 23, 2005 - 16:17 by diet simon
Gorleben, northern Germany, 23 September - - Opponents of nuclear energy say they have information that the next train of 12 caskets of highly radioactive waste will leave a plutonium factory in France on 6 November for a storage hall near this village. ... read full story / add a comment |
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