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international / anti-war / imperialism Friday October 19, 2007 - 11:16 by Willi Munzenberg
 7 comments (last - friday october 19, 2007 - 13:45)
The Stop The War Coalition In Britain has refused to accept the affiliations of Hands Off The People Of Iran and Communist Students. Mark Fischer writes on these developments. The logic of the decision taken on October 12 by the Stop the War Coalition’s officer group to reject the affiliations of Hopi and CS could be pretty drastic.Andrew Murray’s terse email announcing the exclusions made it clear that this is a political decision. He wrote that a “study of statements and articles issued” had convinced the officers that both Hopi and CS are “entirely hostile to the coalition, its policies and its work”. A sub-committee of the STWC leadership, the steering committee, made this decision. It has 11 members, 3 are members of the SWP (Lindsey German, John Rees, Chris Nineham), 2 are members of the Morning Star’s Communist Party of Britain (Andrew Murray and Kate Hudson). This small group runs the STWC on a day-to-day basis and effectively subverts the democracy of the STWC as a whole. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Friday October 19, 2007 - 01:24 by Over The Edge
As part of the second National Writers Group Festival, the Longford Arts Office invites entries for the Writers Group of the Year Award. For this, groups are asked to submit a portfolio containing one poem, one short story, one short short, and a group profile. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday October 17, 2007 - 06:45 by Solidarity
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I'm sure some have noted the supposed anti terror related arrests over the past day in New Zealand that have swept up a whole list of radical Moari, anarchist, environmental activists. News is still filtering through but some NZ blogs and indymedia have good info. Soliarity actions have begun outside New Zealand embassies & consulates. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday October 16, 2007 - 10:57 by Georgi Chicherin
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Student activists at Tehran University confronted "President" Ahmadinejad and chanted "Death To The Dictator". The Universioties are no longer a safe haven for Ahmadinejad. About 100 students staged a rare protest yesterday against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, calling him a "dictator" as he gave a speech marking the beginning of the academic year at Tehran University. The protest prompted scuffles between the demonstrators and hardline university students loyal to Ahmadinejad, who ignored chants of "Death to dictator" and continued his speech on the merits of science and pitfalls of Western-style democracy, witnesses said. The hardline students chanted back "Thank you president" as police looked on from the outside the university's gates. No physical altercations took place, and the protesters dispersed after the car carrying Ahmadinejad left the campus. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / miscellaneous Monday October 15, 2007 - 23:26 by Charlie Bird
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Francis O'Reilly was said to be "summarily dismissed" Sinn Fein has dismissed a party member who was one of four football hooligans jailed last week for an attack on a pub in Londonderry. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / worker & community struggles and protests Monday October 15, 2007 - 10:48 by Georgi Chicherin
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In the story below Hamid Tehrani gives an update on the situation of the sugar cane workers on strike in Shoush in Iran. Full text at the link at the end of this article. Thousands of unpaid Haft Tapeh sugar cane factory workers in Shoush in the Khuzestan province in Iran started a strike last week. Government sent security forces to repress the workers but strike continues. Several bloggers covered this event, and other related stories of difficult conditions of labor activists. Kaargar (means worker) says[Fa] that thousands of Haft Tapeh sugar cane factory in Khouzestan province started strike on Saturday 27th October. The blog adds that one of the upaid workers' slogan was “Haftapeh workers are hungry”. The blogger adds the number of workers was around 3000 and they wanted to demonstrate in front of governor's office but police stopped them. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 15, 2007 - 01:53 by Michael Gallagher
9 comments (last - thursday november 08, 2007 - 17:02) 33 images
From Ballinaboy to Pullathomas and back again. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media Monday October 15, 2007 - 01:39 by Over The Edge
Over The Edge 'New Writer of The Year' - winning story published ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression Monday October 15, 2007 - 00:55 by Michael Gallagher
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From Ballinaboy to Pullenthomas and back again. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Saturday October 13, 2007 - 16:02 by Guy de Cervens
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March 2006, a DC9 is seized at Campeche airport in Mexico carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine. Two weeks ago a Gulf Stream 2 crash-landed with 132 bags of cocaine weighing four tons in Yaucatan, Mexico. It has now been emerging that the planes and cocaine were the property of a CIA type front company whose owners and directors have CIA and Government connections. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media Friday October 12, 2007 - 19:43 by C Murray
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In 2004 two members of the Critical Art Ensemble were arrested for 'bioterrorism' under the Patriot Act. The organisation of which they are members is called the CAE and the area they were exploring was biotech. http://www.critical-art.net http://www.critical-art.net/biotech/index.html The campaign has been running awhile on , amongst other publications : The New Left Curve. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/82109. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage Friday October 12, 2007 - 13:43 by checking your fingernails regularly
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Yippee, it's the 12th of the tenth month again. This is the day that all over the world people get a day off work if they've got that sort of job so they may reflect what being Hispanic is about & how jolly good Colombus was for being credited with discovering India. It offers a wide range of people from South Americans to Basques & Catalans to demonstrate that they are not in any way Hispanic & have no commonwealth with Spain or her democracy & then get arrested for it. Whilst on the other side of the wondrous spectrum of humanity it offers people a chance to look at the army in Madrid & the annual hissing of Zapatero in the minute of silence...........something for everyone........ ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Thursday October 11, 2007 - 23:10 by Tech1.0
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(from last week's New Scientist - I'm publishing this in the inter-national public interest...) "We don’t need environmental evangelicals to tell us that sustainable development is a good idea. Yet, if that is our goal, we are heading in the wrong direction - with the exception of Cuba. So says the first study to examine the ecological impact of changing lifestyles around the globe. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Thursday October 11, 2007 - 19:09 by C Murray
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The Long Room library in TCD is exhibiting the Annals of the Four Masters until the 21st of December 2007. http://www.tcd.ie/library/heritage/events.php http://www.ucc.ie/celt/publishd.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_of_the_Four_Masters They date from 2242 to 1616. Trinity has also got Piers Plowman amongst other books, however you need a special permission to access some of the texts or be a student in the Lit Dept. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday October 11, 2007 - 15:24 by guild of assassins
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......"If you're going to tell people they're wrong & unsportsmanlike you have to direct their energies elsewhere"..... I realise & so do other regular contributors that there's a lot of anti-China sentiment floating about. It's quite understandable considering the Mattel Toy corporation scandal earlier this year which misled the world into thinking they were expected to send back their Barbie dolls because Chinese factory workers had poisoned them, only to learn later it was Mattel Toy Corp's manufacturing instructions which were at fault. & of course since the mid-19th century it was been impossible to treat on anti-chinese sentiment without mentioning Lama-ism. So a spot of news for those who hold Lama-ism in great esteem. "The democratically-elected Tibetan government-in-exile (TGIE) has challenged China over a new law designed to limit Tibetan Buddhism’s role in identifying reincarnated lamas." ... read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous Wednesday October 10, 2007 - 18:09 by Guy de Cervens
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The first Argentinean Roman Catholic priest charged with killings, torture and kidnapping was convicted and sentenced to life on Tuesday. Father Christian von Wernich was convicted on all counts: 7 murders, 31 cases of torture and 42 kidnappings between 1976 and 1983 when the military ran Argentina with the support of the Catholic Church. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday October 10, 2007 - 17:31 by John Cornford
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Nick Bird has been a member of the SWP for 17 years. Below he outlines his reasons for parting with what he sees to be an undemocratic and dishonest organisation. As for my intentions, I have been an SWP member for 17 years, but frankly I’ve had enough. This is a bit of a wrench for me, since I feel that I learnt the core political ideas and principles that I hold from the SWP. But for some years I have felt my belief in the good things that the party does being qualified by frustrations at its practices and methods. I will stay in Respect and align myself with those who want an inclusive, democratic party that fights for peace, justice, equality and socialism. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / crime and justice Wednesday October 10, 2007 - 16:37 by C Murray
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This morning the State gave assurances to the Council of Europe that the health and Safety of Irish prisoners would be upheld. This unusual occurence happened because it is the second such report from outside the state which highlights the problems in our prisons. Both the Amnesty International report for 2006 and the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture highlighted the murder of Gary Douch in a holding cell int the basement of Mountjoy and the continued medieval practices of slopping out in that prison. The Committee visited ten Garda stations, seven prisons and the Central Mental Hospital. The report is damning. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday October 10, 2007 - 13:51 by Charlotte Despard
See below a plea to the US and UK governments to enter into negotiations with the Iranian regime. This is from CASMII, the organisation that the SWP is involved in. They are suddenly keen to portray the US and UK governments as capable of playing a progressive role in the region! It is clear now who is really creating illusions in the US and UK governments – as well of course as being loyal supporters of the Iranian regime. We urge the leaders of the U.S., the U.K. and Iran to set aside allpre-conditions and resume direct and open negotiations on all issuesof dispute, to bring about a lowering of tensions, to create an opening for meaningful progress toward understanding, and to envision a Middle East in which all its residents can coexist and together address the common problems of violence, poverty, illness and environmental degradation. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday October 10, 2007 - 13:40 by Miriam
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A doctor gives an account of the condition of the Palestinian people. ... read full story / add a comment |
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