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international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday November 04, 2004 - 19:44 by Spartacist League/Workers Vanguard and Varlet
The Spartacist League, revolutionary Trotskyist party, and its fraternal political prisoner defense organization, the Partisan Defense Committee have protested the assaults on IndyMedia through their newspaper, Workers Vanguard. "...We stand in fullest solidarity with those courageous journalists who struggle to tell the truth against the repression and lies of the American imperialists." Here is the article. ---- Varlet ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday November 04, 2004 - 16:15 by pat c
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On This Day: 4 November. William of Orange, later king of Great Britain and Ireland, was born in 1650. An equestrian statue of him, blown up in 1929 by Republicans, remained on a scrapheap until World War II, by which time the Dublin waterpipes were in such a state that more water was escaping than getting through to people's taps. It was noticed that the genitalia of King William's horse were solid lead and weighed a stone and a half. The horse's member proved perfect for sealing pipes. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday November 04, 2004 - 13:40 by Boycotter
The International Federation of Journalists today condemned the Colombian government over a “political game of intimidation” after barring entry into the country of Víctor Báez Mosqueira, the General Secretary of ICFTU-ORIT, along with three other international trade union representatives. “In a country where union activists are being killed as they fight for their rights, it is intolerable that international unionists expressing solidarity and support should be victims of a political game of intimidation,” said Aidan White, IFJ General Secretary. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday November 04, 2004 - 13:37 by Boycotter
Brussels 2 November 2004 (ICFTU Online): The international trade union movement today expressed its outrage at the expulsion of four international union representatives from Colombia on 30 October and 1 November, on the order of the government of President Alvaro Uribe Velez. It is understood that the Uribe government has drawn up a list of trade union representatives banned from entering the country, and that this list includes persons who took part in an international solidarity mission* to Colombia in September, to press the Uribe government to bring an end to the killing of Colombian trade trade unionists and the other means of anti-union repression which are rife in the country. Colombia has had a notorious record of violence and discrimination against trade unionists over many years, with more than 50 trade unionists murdered already this year. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday November 03, 2004 - 23:48 by margaret
Over 1,600 computer experts have signed a petition demanding that electronic voting machines not be used unless they offer a paper trail. Already there have been a number of suspicious incidents linked to the new machines. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday November 03, 2004 - 23:40 by margaret
there are discussions on this bulletin board about why Bush won. I am an Internationalist a Revolutionary Communist who lives in the U.S. Please read this post and please comment!!!! ... read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections Wednesday November 03, 2004 - 23:03 by BlackState.com
George W. Bush is not the President of all the people. America is a divided nation the entire west coast of the United States went for John Kerry. African Americans preferred John Kerry 90% to 10%. ... read full story / add a comment |
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