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Human Rights in Ireland
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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link News Round-Up Fri Nov 07, 2025 01:03 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link The Reaction of My Mental Health Nursing Students to Being Shown an Image of a Black Murderer and Wh... Thu Nov 06, 2025 19:01 | Dr Niall McCrae
The reaction of my mental health nursing students to being shown an image of a black murderer and white victim shows why 'anti-racist' ideology is putting us all at risk, says Dr Niall McCrae.
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offsite link BBC Rebukes Newsreader Who Corrected ?Pregnant People? to ?Women? Thu Nov 06, 2025 17:52 | Will Jones
The BBC newsreader who went viral after she changed "pregnant people" to "women" during a live broadcast has been rebuked by the BBC after being found to have breached impartiality rules.
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offsite link The Southport Inquiry?s Sinister Censorship Agenda Thu Nov 06, 2025 15:23 | David Shipley
The Southport Inquiry summoned X this week to lecture it on the wonders of the Online Safety Act. It shows a sinister willingness to use the worst kind of tragedy to advance a censorship agenda, says David Shipley.
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offsite link How the Government?s Digital ID Fantasy Will Fall Apart Thu Nov 06, 2025 13:21 | Guy de la B?doy?re
Keir Starmer is planning digital ID for UK citizens. You may worry about the impact on civil liberties, but worry not, says Guy de la B?doy?re. A recent experience shows the system will never get off the ground.
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Voltaire Network
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offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

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May Day Workers Solidarity

category national | worker & community struggles and protests | opinion/analysis author Monday April 29, 2013 12:32author by ... Report this post to the editors

Cheap clothes in Pennys = cheap lives in Bangladesh

May Day was first celebrated as a day of international workers' solidarity in 1890. It was called to commemorate the murder of four anarchist workers in Chicago by the US government.

123 years later, capitalism continues to kill workers all over the world. Some are executed or shot dead, like the 34 striking Marikana miners killed by South African police last August, defending the interests of British company Lonmin. Many millions more are sentenced to slow deaths from hunger, poverty and despair. Others are killed in so-called "workplace accidents" in mines, factories and fields where life is the cheapest commodity of all.

On May Day 2013, while celebrating 123 plus years of struggle, we also need to commemorate some of the latest victims of capitalism. We think of the 30 Bangladeshi and other migrant workers shot by Greek strawberry farm bosses in Manolada on 18 April (thankfully, none of the gunshot wounds were fatal). And above all we remember the more than 300 Bangladeshi workers (perhaps many more) killed in the collapsed textile factory in Dhaka on 24 April.

Capitalism kills. And the killers are not just the cops who pull the trigger, or the factory managers who ignore the cracks and lock the doors. The ultimate killers are all those who profit from death trap factories, and everywhere where capitalism forces us to wear out our bodies and minds
and risk our lives for the riches of the few.

Primark, Matalan, Mango, Benetton, and other clothes chains profiting from cheap labour are killers. The banks and investment funds that finance their deals are killers. The governments in Bangladesh, Greece and Britain who protect them are killers. We call on everyone to join us on May Day and remember the dead with action. We need to hold the clothing chains, and all other capitalist murderers, to account.

Workers have been taking to the streets in Bangladesh since Thursday and there will be mass strikes on 2 May. Let's show them some solidarity!

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