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national / worker & community struggles and protests Thursday February 11, 2010 - 00:42 by P. Bowman
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Paul Holmes is standing for election as General Secretary of UNISON. Paul has been active in the union for 36 years, he’s branch secretary of Kirklees Branch in Yorkshire. The branch has over 10,000 members and an 80% membership density. Paul agreed to be interviewed for Fightback which is the Journal of the International Marxist Tendency in Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday February 10, 2010 - 17:35 by Drew
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Below are excerpts translated from a leaflet by the Communist Party of Iran (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) . Dated 5 February, it was put out on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of the people's uprising that toppled the Shah in 1979. Full article text at the link. As millions of Iranian people all over the country await 11 February their hearts are beating hard.. Brave women and men are planning to turn that date into a decisive day. The enemy is also planning to stay in the field and not lose its perilous balance. The chants of "Down with the Islamic Republic of Iran!" will come from the heart and find echo in other hearts. Over the last eight months the Iranian people's anti-regime movement has significantly inspired the people of the Middle East and other parts of the world. They too are enthusiastically looking forward to 11 February. The Western imperialists and Russia and China who are all as reactionary as the Islamic Republic are already speculating about "Iran after 11 February" and expressing their concern about the "future of the Middle East and Iran" – which means concern about their interests in Iran and the Middle East! ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Tuesday February 09, 2010 - 03:11 by Anti-Zionist
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Israeli use of 'third country' passports is widespread. They have been known to use Canadian, British, New Zealand, Austrailian and of course Irish, Passports in the course of carrying out their illegal murders around the world. What is the Irish Gov't doing to protect the reputation of it's citizens travelling abroad? ... read full story / add a comment
international / education Sunday February 07, 2010 - 19:08 by John Cornford
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Prof Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group really sticks the boot into Chomsky. He weighs Chomskys credentials in the balance and finds then wanting. Full text at link. Chomsky was about to deliver a lecture in Delhi. Setting aside the usual niceties, his host - a certain professor Agnihotri of Delhi University - introduced the visiting speaker with a challenge. He was bewildered that a person “so deeply touched by human suffering” could ignore the roots of both happiness and suffering in his scientific work. Noam Chomsky, continued the professor, insisted on viewing language as a “purely biological cognitive system” unconnected with “sociological power-games”. But isn’t language a key tool used by the powerful to deceive, exploit and oppress? How can Chomsky turn a blind eye to such things in his linguistic research?[8] ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday February 05, 2010 - 14:31 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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VID 58 minutes - Howard Zinn was an American historian, social critic, and activist. He is best known as author of the best-seller A People’s History of the United States. In one of his last lectures before his death last week, he spoke at Boston University on November 11 2009, on the subject of American “Holy Wars.” http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2010/1/8/howard_zinn_t..._wars ... read full story / add a comment |
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