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international / environment Sunday November 22, 2009 - 19:58 by Bazooka Joe
 4 comments (last - wednesday november 25, 2009 - 13:29)
Hundreds of private e-mail messages and documents of prominent American and British climate researchers hacked from a computer server at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 20, 2009 - 23:37 by Diet Simon
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"In the heart of this first world I found scenes more reminiscent of the third world.." ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Friday November 20, 2009 - 12:13 by Anne Mc Shane
7 comments (last - monday december 14, 2009 - 15:03)
Dave Isaacson criicises leading SWP members who have undermind and sabotaged attempts to forge rank and file organisation in the CWU. Now SWP member Jane Loftus has actually endorsed a sellout deal. Full text at link. There was one significant omission in Jim Moody’s article on the sell-out of the postal strike by the Communication Workers Union leadership, which allowed CWU president Jane Loftus to come out of it looking rather good, when actually she has been an utter disgrace (‘Militants condemn sell-out’, November 12). Loftus, a long-standing member of the Socialist Workers Party and therefore supposedly a revolutionary, is also a member of the CWU’s postal executive committee (PEC), which voted unanimously on November 5 to accept the interim agreement and call off the strikes, just as the strength of the postal workers was starting to be realised. This goes completely against the position of Loftus’s organisation. Socialist Worker has rightly stated that “Leaders of the postal workers’ union were wrong to suspend strikes at Royal Mail last week … There was no reason for the union to sign up to the agreement. The proposed escalation of strike action - that would have seen two 24-hour strikes in close succession last week - had widespread support within the union” (November 14). ... read full story / add a comment
kildare / education Thursday November 19, 2009 - 22:01 by Aidan Rowe
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The Student's Union of NUI Maynooth has confirmed, via email correspondence, that they will not be encouraging NUIM students to support the strike on Tuesday. The full text of the email correspondence is presented below. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Tuesday November 17, 2009 - 10:04 by Eugene Mc Cartan
Brazilian Workers Charge Shell with "Environmental Crimes" Brazilian WorkersLeft to right: Rasteiro, Cascone, de Lima (November 12, New York City) -- Brazilian chemical workers addressing a New York audience of students, academics, and union members said that the Shell Oil Company, one of the world's largest, had willfully ignored life-threatening exposures to its workers who handled hazardous chemicals in South America. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / racism & migration related issues Monday November 16, 2009 - 13:27 by Mover
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