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international / housing Wednesday August 02, 2006 - 19:54 by zee lumpen
During the summer of 1946, over 40,000 British people took the law into their own hands and squatted in property that they didn't own - initially disused military camps, then empty hotels and blocks of flats. It was an unprecedented movement of civil disobedience, and it presented Atlee's Labour Government with its first great crisis. Mark Whitaker tells the story - with testimony from several of the squatters themselves. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Wednesday August 02, 2006 - 13:03 by republica
 2 comments (last - wednesday august 02, 2006 - 15:43)
This is a call from Barcelona to give suport to the prisoners 4f that have been unfairly in prison for half a year next 4th of august. Any actions are wellcomed, ballons with names, information about this, placards especially in front of the spanish embassy but not necessarily, just use your creativity. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday August 01, 2006 - 03:37 by E.Goldstein
5 comments (last - wednesday august 02, 2006 - 02:59)
We need your solidarity now. Daniel Gross, an organizer in the IWW Starbucks Workers Union, is being "investigated" by the company over a protest he and his co-workers participated in to support another IWW barista, Evan Winterscheidt. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Tuesday August 01, 2006 - 00:10 by D_D
1 comment (last - wednesday august 16, 2006 - 22:54)
Issue 25 of Red Banner, the independent magazine of socialist ideas, is available now, from PO Box 6587, from [email protected] or from some bookshops (e.g. Books Upstairs, Dublin). Euro 3/£2 ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday July 31, 2006 - 10:58 by finch
3 comments (last - sunday august 20, 2006 - 02:43)
Indirectly confirmed by John Bolton, U.S. Ambassador to the UN (and sociopath) in a public statement; the first casualty of war is LANGUAGE – the needless slaughter of innocent children in Qana by an Israeli airstrike was an “accident of war”! In the face of an obvious war crime it is now incumbent on the Bush regime, especially its representatives Bolton and Rice, to define the rules of engagement and what constitutes a war crime. We do not forget how quick the U.S. and NATO were to condemn war crimes in the Balkan conflict – it would seem that allies of the U.S. (Israel) are immune; their obvious crimes become tragic ‘accidents’ whereas those opposed to the U.S. are war criminals and liable to indefinite incarceration (‘Torture’ Bay) or trial in an ‘independent’ court at the Hague. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday July 30, 2006 - 17:04 by red
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Sect with class roots Ted Grant died on July 20 at the age of 93, after more than 75 years as a Trotskyist activist. He was the effective founder and theoretical guru of the Militant Tendency, which at its height, recalls Mike Macnair, before the splits of the 1990s, was probably the largest and best-rooted of the Trotskyist organisations in Britain ... read full story / add a comment
longford / anti-war / imperialism Sunday July 30, 2006 - 00:16 by Jake
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, south of Tyre Saturday July 29, 2006 Guardian Inside a well-furnished apartment in a village on the outskirts of Tyre, with shelves of books piled from floor to ceiling, a black turbaned cleric and three men sit sipping bitter coffee. By the door is a pile of Kalashnikovs and ammunition boxes; handguns are tucked into the men's trousers. The four are Hizbullah fighters, waiting for the Israelis. ... read full story / add a comment
laois / anti-war / imperialism Sunday July 30, 2006 - 00:02 by Fiona G.
Made in the UK, bringing devastation to Lebanon - the British parts in Israel's deadly attack helicopters · Key parts for Israeli aircraft made in UK · Rights groups say Apaches used for assassinations ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday July 29, 2006 - 08:05 by cleaves
The people are once again faced with a very real opportunity to act and change the status quo. The USA has abandoned its traditional role of peacekeeper in the Middle East. Two clear prerogatives present themselves in the face of ongoing hostilities, a people’s movement or another nation filling the vacuum left by the U.S. (which has tragically become an involved party in the conflict). How many times must the opportunity for Peace go begging? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday July 29, 2006 - 04:11 by Seán Ryan
10 comments (last - monday july 31, 2006 - 00:32)
Cindy Sheehan buys plot of land near George Bush's Ranch in Crawford, Texas. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday July 28, 2006 - 12:18 by Starvin Marvin
3 comments (last - sunday july 30, 2006 - 23:30)
The following is an article I read in the Irish Times. At first I thought I was reading an article by Richard Perle or some other neo-con ideologue but then I saw its author was none other than Joschka Fischer. What do Trevor Sargent and John Gormley have to say about their Green cousins in Europe? ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday July 28, 2006 - 10:20 by Frank Cordaro
3 comments (last - friday july 28, 2006 - 15:05)
Former RC priest ,and long time Catholic Worker, is presently serving a 6 month sentence for a nonviolent trespass at Offcut Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska. Offcut is headquarters of what was once called the U.S. Strategic Air Command. This is Frank's 7th. 6 month stint for nonviolent resistance at Offcut AFB. Frank also did time for a (1990's) Plowshares action on a B-52 Bomber at Andrews Air Force Base. (By happenstance, Amy Goodman was on site and covered the action for "Democracy Now"). Although Frank is presently a prisoner of the Federal Government he spent the first 2 months of this sentence in overcrowded County Jails (There ar e now 2.3 million prople locked up in the U.S.) Frank is now ensconsed in Yankton Fed Pen (once rated by Penthouse 'zine as one of the 5 easiest places to do time in the U.S. system. ... read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 27, 2006 - 22:37 by Jack
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The European Union has handed the Middle East to the militarists, writes Michael D Higgins TD in todays Irish Times. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 27, 2006 - 21:45 by Anthony
A letter from Chomsky and other well known anti-imperalists outlines some of the less well reported events around the start of the recent escalation of Israeli violence and looks at the double standards that can be seen in the coverage and treatment of Palestinians. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 27, 2006 - 17:19 by Red Banner Fleet
This is the complete Barr Tribunal Report http://www.eire.com/photos/Barr_Tribunal.pdf Sure to become as controversial as the Warren Report. McDowell claims that ERU are not "trigger happy bucaneers." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 27, 2006 - 14:59 by nano
The middle of the twentieth century was the last occasion a belligerent nation stunned the world with violent military invasions. The major powers watched passively while a rogue military nation boldly occupied a number of sovereign states; the excuses offered by the aggressor at that time were similar to the inane, irrational rubbish the world is offered today by Israel and the U.S. However, some would make the distinction that the comments made by John Bolton and Condoleezza Rice are even less believable than the propaganda of Dr. Joseph Goebbels. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday July 27, 2006 - 12:44 by pat c
He beat himself up so badly he was paralysed! It reminds me of people beating themselves up during the days of the Heavy Gang. Or Andreas Baader shooting himself in the back of the head. Full story at link. pat c ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday July 27, 2006 - 02:13 by io
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By now most western Europeans with fair to middling interest in current affairs know that the UN observers in southern Lebanon, observed in time that Israeli artillery shells were landing close to their position. Ireland which prides itself on leading the way in UNIFIL operations knows how many phone calls were made - 10. We also all pride ourselves on knowing the mandate finishes next Monday. Most of the UN observers stationed with UNIFIL at that observer post were Indian, though those killed weren't. The first reports to hit Indian newswatchers that their own soldiers were in the line of fire came from the BBC who had their own team "observing" in the same little zone. This is how things work :- FINUL, the UN, the BBC, the government & army of Lebanon, the government & army of Israel, and even Hezbollah exchange phone numbers. They tell each other where they are. So "little accidents" like "friendly fire" don't happen. Otherwise indeed the whole idea of "UN peace-keeping" which started 50 years ago with the thereafter Nobel peace laureate, former prime minister of Canada Lester B. Pearson, would fall apart at the seams. So I thought I'd give you a round-up of Indian media reaction since as we all realise the UNIFIL mandate expires next Monday :- (we did all realise that didn't we???????????) _____________________________________________________________________________ ... read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights Wednesday July 26, 2006 - 23:04 by Ciaran Long
3 comments (last - friday august 11, 2006 - 22:44)
Every hunting season it's a regular occurrence for Saboteurs to be beaten up, some murdered, hospitalised, have their transport damaged and their personal belongings stolen by hunters and supporters. It's very seldom that anyone is charged. And if they are it's usually just a slap on the wrist. But when the table is turned, it's a totally different story. ... read full story / add a comment 
galway / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday July 26, 2006 - 21:09 by Tommy Donnellan
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Independent journalist Dahr Jamail, who exposed how the U.S. used white phosphorus bombs in Iraq, says Israel is using the same tactic in Lebanon - this is now confirmed by the Ministry of the Interior in Lebanon. Also, according to Human Rights Watch, Israel has used artillery-fired cluster munitions in populated areas of Lebanon. Below are copied extracts from Dahr Jamail's Democracy Now interview (see link) and the relevant article/photos (cluster bombs) on the HRW website. ... read full story / add a comment |
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