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offsite link The Proof That Lockdown Critics Were ?Debanked? Because of Their Views Sat Jan 18, 2025 19:00 | Toby Young
PayPal has finally admitted that the reason it shut the account of UsForThem is because it disapproved of the lobby group's stance on mandatory Covid vaccines for children and school closures.
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Keir Starmer's Attorney General Lord Hermer fought the Home Office in the courts to try to help migrants stay in the U.K. The Lefty lawyers are in charge now, and don't we know it.
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offsite link SNP Takes Teachers Out of School for ?Racial Microaggression? Training Sat Jan 18, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
An SNP training programme allows teachers to take the equivalent of?three days out from the classroom?to learn how to "decode racial microaggressions".
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offsite link Asda Backs Farmers Over Inheritance Tax in Blow to Starmer Sat Jan 18, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Asda?has publicly backed farmers in their row with Labour over its?inheritance tax raid?following tractor protests outside of supermarkets in a new blow to Starmer and Reeves.
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Foreign Secretary David Lammy set out "the future of the U.K.'s foreign policy" this week. It's an abysmal vision, says Dr. David McGrogan, but it gives hope that the edifice of 'progressive realism' will soon collapse.
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international / environment Monday September 20, 2004 - 06:21 by R. Isible
John Vidal in the Guardian reports on the massive export trade of plastic, aluminum, paper and glass to China (over 8000 miles away) created by EU directives. He quotes a UK recycler who can't compete with the cheap labour and lack of environmental standards in China. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday September 20, 2004 - 01:14 by John Meehan
Alan Thornett has written a critique of Alex Callinicos's approach to RESPECT and the SSP - Callinicos is a leading member of the British SWP.

Thornett's article is at the link below :

http://www.socialistresistance.net/thornettcritiquecll.htm ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday September 20, 2004 - 01:03 by John Meehan
The Italian revolutionary socialist Livio Maitan died at the age of 81 on September 16 2004 - tributes can be read at this link :

http://www.socialistresistance.net/liviomaitan.htm ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday September 19, 2004 - 23:11 by hs   text 11 comments (last - thursday december 23, 2004 - 15:03)
interesting article in the weekly worker on homophobia by oppressed people and what the lefts attitutde is and should be.

Criticising the oppressed
The gay rights group, Outrage, is renowned for its headline-making campaigns against homophobia - of, for example, the Church of England, Robert Mugabe and elements of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. This led to a fierce denunciation by the SWP’s Lindsey German and a heated exchange on BBC2’s Newsnight. Most recently Outrage has highlighted the murderous lyrics of certain Jamaican reggae artists. But is it right to criticise the oppressed? Peter Tatchell, Outrage’s leading activist, explains his approach

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/544/tatchell.htm ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday September 19, 2004 - 19:44 by chomskyite
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday September 18, 2004 - 19:33 by redjade   text 2 comments (last - friday september 24, 2004 - 17:33)
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday September 18, 2004 - 17:25 by moonwolf
The I.O.F continue their reign of terror against the Palestinian people killing a 19 yesr old girl in Nablus and in a seperate incident abusing a worker in Jerusalem forcing him to drink their urine.

http://english.wafa.ps/bodym.asp?field=tech_news&id=1589 ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday September 18, 2004 - 02:40 by Lest We Forget The Righteous Peacekeepers
Count Folke Bernadotte, special UN Mediator to Mid East ...responsibile for saving 20,000 Jews from Himmler was assassinated this day, September 17 1948. The man directly responsible for his death, Nathan Friedman-Yellin was sentenced, pardoned after 5 months and was allowed to serve on Knesset ... read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech Saturday September 18, 2004 - 01:14 by moonwolf   text 1 comment (last - saturday september 18, 2004 - 14:33)
Extreme physical conditions have a way of bringing out the strangest behaviors that nature can muster. Just ask physicist John E. Thomas. Two years ago, he and his colleagues at Duke University in Durham, N.C., were working with intense lasers in a high-vacuum chamber at temperatures next to absolute zero. They were manipulating tiny clouds of lithium gas. When the scientists turned off the lasers, peculiar things began to happen. At first, the microscopic puff of lithium billowed out of the spot where the lasers had held it. But then, instead of expanding evenly in all directions, as any normal gas would, the lithium cloud morphed into a pancake. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday September 18, 2004 - 00:57 by moonwolf
In Asia, China is pushing to increase its influence in military and strategic affairs in an attempt to counter US strategic interests in the region. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday September 17, 2004 - 16:07 by redjade   text 5 comments (last - saturday september 18, 2004 - 01:19)
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international / eu Friday September 17, 2004 - 13:43 by iosaf   text 2 comments (last - friday september 17, 2004 - 19:04)
Curious procedural decision was made in the EU Parliament other day, as part of the ongoing "Catalan Language" question.

The Catalan deputies are now not allowed used their language in the chamber, and the majority will vote against the EU constitution as a result. ... read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism Friday September 17, 2004 - 12:15 by WSM   text 4 comments (last - monday december 20, 2004 - 13:07)   image 1 image
Issue 82 of the Irish anarchist paper Workers Solidarity is now online. You can read the articles online or download and print out the PDF version from http://struggle.ws/wsm/ws/2004 ... read full story / add a comment
down / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday September 16, 2004 - 23:38 by iosaf   text 2 comments (last - friday september 17, 2004 - 20:58)   image 2 images
Tony Blair proved he was still alive yesterday to the wider international community against very well placed sources with not inconsiderable influence who let it be believed he had been hung from a lamp-post.

He met the premier of the neighbouring state, Mr Bartholomew Patrick Ahern Taoiseach of Ireland Supreme Rascal and ex president of the European Union. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday September 16, 2004 - 16:03 by ReSect watch
Former Socialist Workers Party national committee member David Isaacson has joined the CPGB. Tellingly, and not without self-criticism, he details how on the one hand the SWP leadership perpetuates itself, and how, on the other, it depoliticises and demotivates. The result is a not a party but a bureaucratic sect which must be fought from the inside and the out

Many believe that the Socialist Workers Party is going through some kind of crisis. All the signs are there. Attendance at this summer’s Marxism was half that of the previous year. Membership figures cannot be great if Respect can only muster just over 3,000. Where are the 10,000 SWP members of old? East End Offset - the SWP’s printshop - has been sold off, presumably because of financial problems stemming from Respect’s election campaign. The election result itself was a disappointment. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Thursday September 16, 2004 - 15:32 by Michael Hennigan   text 5 comments (last - saturday september 18, 2004 - 15:00)   image 1 image
With just one minute to go on Mairin Finucane's RTE Radio 1 programme this morning, prospective Green Party presidential candidate was asked if he had used cannabis. He was honest and said yes.

The issue of the positive or negative benefits aside, one of the biggest fears of parents of teenage children who smoke dope is that they will graduate to another level.

I wonder if Eamon's honesty will give Pat Rabbitte a way out to give Labour sponsorship of the nomination a pass? ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Thursday September 16, 2004 - 14:26 by pat c
Johnny Ramone, guitarist in punk band The Ramones, has died at the age of 55 following a long fight against cancer.
He passed away at his Los Angeles home on Wednesday afternoon, surrounded by his friends and family, his publicist confirmed.
( I guess this is yet another example of my misantrophy. Any hope of Ted Nugent kicking the bucket as well? pat c) ... read full story / add a comment
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