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national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday May 16, 2005 - 17:47 by SP
The latest issue of The Socialist is now on line at www.socialistparty.net ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Monday May 16, 2005 - 14:28 by woof woof
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The Social Democrat party have taken the city councils in this weekend's municipal elections. "Croatia's conservative HDZ remained the strongest party after Sunday's local elections but the opposition's stronger than expected showing sent a stark warning to the government, analysts said on Monday. Prime Minister Ivo Sanader's ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) was leading in nine of the 21 counties, according to incomplete preliminary results, but the writing on the wall was clearly that of growing popular discontent. "(reuters) ... read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice Monday May 16, 2005 - 13:18 by Anti-ASBO
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NYCI have today launched a web page containing details and resources including posters and petitions for use in the campaign aginst ASBO's (anti-social behavior orders). ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Sunday May 15, 2005 - 23:18 by John Meehan
2 comments (last - tuesday may 17, 2005 - 15:28)
Two articles on the recent General Election in England and Scotland can be found at this link : http://212.67.202.147/%7Eivnet05/index.php3 Terry Conway looks at the outcome in England, and assesses the result achieved by RESPECT - the best electoral performance achieved by a party standing to the left of the Labour Party since 1945, when the Communist Party gained two seats. Alan McCombes looks at the "disappointing" result achieved by the Scottish Socialist Party. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Sunday May 15, 2005 - 14:48 by Sl
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The owners of the Sellafield plant (the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority) want to permanently close the THORP reprocessing facility (scene of a recent huge leak) - partly in order to make building new nuclear power stations easier! ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday May 15, 2005 - 02:16 by Daithí Mac Lochlainn
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The White House announced this morning that President George W. Bush will speak to the 2nd annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast next Friday, May 20th at the Washington Hilton in Washington DC. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Sunday May 15, 2005 - 01:32 by Brian Vernon
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This also contains new facts of just how large a disater the whole operation is as they have now 75 TONS of Pu239 and thousands of TONS of U with no place or plans. And it just gets worse the more ya read...G-d have Mercy BNFL is over 41 Billion pounds Bankrupt, so they create a new org...NDA to take over the mess and try to Save The Empire, and Blair's butt. Just as Blair and Bush were ranting about Nuclear Development, all this was going on there and completely covered up, amazing. It time to move the Doomsday clock closer to Midnight... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday May 14, 2005 - 17:04 by paul sherlock
Death toll continuing to rise in Iraq http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0514/iraq.html ... read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech Saturday May 14, 2005 - 15:42 by iosaf mac d. the ipsiphi
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You know how it goes, you grow up in the XXI century, but in a poor land, where unemployment averages 40% for males and females don't get listed in the statistics. You do your best day and night to attract attention to your land in the hope that a hint of exotica, and network Telly might bring in the good times, terrace cafés, and liberty. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday May 13, 2005 - 22:30 by RS/CCNWON
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"The public interest demands we determine who is ultimately responsible for these abuses." ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 13, 2005 - 17:51 by paul sherlock
Government wastes taxpayers money on military overflights ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment Friday May 13, 2005 - 14:55 by mms
Ireland Esso Wildlife Challenge Awards at a ceremony in the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Friday May 13, 2005 - 12:11 by Joseph Anderson, Berkeley, California, USA
8 comments (last - tuesday may 17, 2005 - 10:47)
I thought that “Never again!” meant never again for all humanity — not just never again for European Jews. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday May 13, 2005 - 11:39 by Louise
3 comments (last - monday may 16, 2005 - 18:37)
The media’s reaction to President Bush’s speech this week in Riga, Latvia, wherein he strongly denounced the injustice perpetrated on half of Europe 60 years ago at the Yalta Conference. It was a Yalta that President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill agreed to the Soviet takeover of half of Europe. What followed was nearly 50 years of repression, killing, and, of course, the Cold War. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / consumer issues Thursday May 12, 2005 - 20:51 by mustapha mond
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"Don't you think the British security services would have known I, George Galloway MP, was becoming a billionaire trading in oil and don't you think if they did, they would not have told anybody?" (speaking by telephone from Portugal) & so George Galloway begins to defend himself against allegations that the he as a Labour MP for Glasgow accepted vouchers worth 20,000,000 barrels of oil from Saddam Hussein of Iraq. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Thursday May 12, 2005 - 12:57 by io
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Kabul is the capital of Afghanistan. the USA have over 16,000 troops there, under two commands, (one looks for Osama and the other is part of a build Afghani identity force) but the stability and contra-narcotraffic operations of the World community are in the hands of the ISAF force, and the majority are €uropean. Young people are very upset, there because they are muslim, and reports have reached them that US interrogators on an island off of Cuba, have desecrated a Koran. US interrogators are not muslim. Cuba isn't muslim either. This is thus a story of Globalisation. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday May 12, 2005 - 12:40 by !AlaCalle!
Photos about Belfast: districts, streets, memorials and murals ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 11, 2005 - 14:33 by Michael Mc Dowell
4 comments (last - tuesday may 24, 2005 - 21:23)
Are you happy with Michael McDowell's performance as Minister for Justice, Equality & Law Reform? ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Wednesday May 11, 2005 - 13:09 by Anthony
A prolific freelance technology journalist has been found to have been using anonymous quotes in her stories which could not be verified. MIT Technology Review Online has retracted stories written by Michelle Delio while Wired News whom she has written far more extensively for has kept the published articles online and appendend notes to her stories in the "hope that our readers can help identify any sources whom we cannot track down."
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international / anti-capitalism Wednesday May 11, 2005 - 11:04 by zappa
1 comment (last - thursday may 12, 2005 - 14:52)
During a book presentation, policemen-bodyguards of PASOK's ex-ministers Verelis and Venizelos, were armed within the premises of the Athens Polytechnic School (NTUA) campus at downtown Athens. (This constitutes a violation of Academic Asylum laws, valid in Greece since the collapse of the military colonels' junta in 1974, mainly propelled by student uprising in November 1973 in the same campus.) ... read full story / add a comment |
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