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international / environment / other press Wednesday August 22, 2007 19:13 by XIT
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It's almost unheard of for any mainstream media organisation to give positive or honest coverage of direct action, action camps etc, so on the rare occasion that it does happen, it's worth seeing. Below is a scan of the front page of last The Independent (UK) of last Saturday (18 August, 2007). The cover story is a special report on the Climate Camp at Heathrow. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday August 22, 2007 12:22 by pat c
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Heres an English translation of a story which got little attention in the mainstream media, what was published was sketchy and confusing. Kathlyn Stone provided the translations for the statements and wrote the main story. The full story is at the link. On the 4th of July, U.S. military and Iraqi national guards opened fire with bullets and grenades on the Baghdad home of Abdel-Hussein Saddam. The severely wounded Abdel-Hussein was taken away and his 18-year-old daughter was left alone, injured and bleeding on the floor. Abdel-Hussein’s beaten body turned up at the Yarmouk morgue on July 6. The murder of Abdel-Hussein was the most devastating of four attacks by the U.S. military on the Iraq Freedom Congress in the past 10 months. The IFC is comprised primarily of trade unionists, community leaders, women’s and children’s rights workers who are determined to look after their own. IFC’s goals are to salvage the lives of as many Iraqis as possible, and to end the occupation and sectarian fighting. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Tuesday August 21, 2007 18:25 by Maryam Namazie
This article is taken from the website of the International Humanist and Ethical Union. The article is written by Maryam Namazie, a leading member of the Worker-communist Party of Iran. Recent reports on the Islamic regime of Iran’s crackdown on women who are ‘badly’ veiled (bad-hejab) and their resistance to the regime’s campaign of arrest and harassment has been reported quite extensively in comparison to other similar events over the years. This is partly due to amateur video footage taken via mobile phones by passers-by uploaded on YouTube for the world to see. There are two pieces of footage that everyone should take a look at. One is of an unveiled woman shouting ‘we don’t want the veil; we want freedom’. The other is of a young girl who is being questioned by security agents for being ‘badly veiled’; she pulls off her veil in front of them and is kicked into a waiting car to be driven away. Given that veiling is compulsory in Iran, these acts of defiance are all the more heroic. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday August 21, 2007 16:08 by David L
A diary from Electronic intifada describing everyday life in Gaza read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday August 21, 2007 08:58 by by Kaveh L Afrasiabi
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In a staggering show of Hubris, the Bush Regime has labeled the army of a sovereign, internationally recognized nation as a terrorist organization. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday August 20, 2007 16:21 by Sunsara Taylor
As the war drums begin their deadly tattoo we must realise that my enemies enemy is not my friend. Herewith is an article by Comrade Sunsara Taylor which deals with the complex question of Iran. Bob Avakian, Chairman of the RCP,USA As the U.S.'s crimes against humanity in the Middle East mount, it is of tremendous importance for people in the U.S. to honestly confront and rise to the profound responsibilities before us in bringing this to a halt. In this spirit, I welcomed the argument made by Thier and Hess in the Socialist Worker on April 20, 2007 entitled “Standing up to Islamophobia,” while I find their central arguments to be wrong & harmful.I do not doubt that they wish to oppose U.S. wars of aggression and their accompanying assault on Muslims, Arabs and South Asians living in the U. S. But they end up arguing for an approach that will neither meet the actual challenges of opposing the U.S. “crusade,” nor bring forward truly liberating possibilities here and around the world. read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality / other press Sunday August 19, 2007 20:04 by Chris Murray
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Independent Media Centre, otherwise known as CIM and Indymedia operates a women's list which has links to both Global and Pan -European sites, where women are working on tech development and support mechanisms for women writers. Most of the developers do not hail from Indymedia but from a wide variety of disciplines that feed into each other and generally there are multiple crossings between lists. http://www.linuxchix.org and http://europeanfeministforum.org are two of the groups that participate in creating spaces for developing free open software systems. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Sunday August 19, 2007 19:30 by Borat
Kazakhstan as we all know is where Borat comes from. & in keeping with their post-Soviet democratic traditions they've just celebrated a general election with results which could probably cause even Ahern or Brown to go quite puice green with envy. The Fatherland's Ray of Light "Nur Otan" party has won all the seats in the parliament. Quite. every single one of them. Of course people are wondering were the elections fair - but nobody is calling Jimmy Carter quite yet because seemingly according to some mystical election pillar of Western life, there has never been a fair election in Kazakhstan.......so it doesn't matter then. Meanwhile the Kazakhs look forward to oil and gas revenue the new Russian/Chinese pipeline through their country will bring. Puice. lovely colour. read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage / other press Friday August 17, 2007 16:29 by pat c
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Dr Saad Eskander, Director of the Iraq National Library & Archives (INLA) is appealing for help. His institution has been occupied by the US Military and by the Iraqi National Guard. This is putting the lives of staff at risk, it is also treating Iraqs heritage with contempt. Please note that INLA refers to Director of the Iraq National Library & Archives. Please publicise this news as widely as possible. Can you spread the following news about the national guards' occupation of Iraq National Library & Archive. I need all the support I can get from around the world. Perhaps you can contact some newspapers. The message below explains everything (please note it will be difficult for me to have an easy access to the internet because of the 4-day curfew). All the Best Saad read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / other press Friday August 17, 2007 01:08 by Fergus O'Connor
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The link is to a piece on the newly-appointed Senator, Eoghan Harris. It extols his vast political experience from his trenchcoat republican days in Cork to his current senatorial elevation. The writer of the piece says that Senator Harris' Marxism will be a welcome addition to Seanad Eireann. Link: http://www.southernstar.ie/article.php?id=265 read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Thursday August 16, 2007 20:55 by Persian
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Recent ratifications by the International Labour Organization (ILO) based on which fishermen should be covered by the law. The ratifications will become mandatory in Iran after the Majlis approves them. Fishermen will then be protected like all other workers in Iran. according to a recent article in Iran Daily. read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality / other press Thursday August 16, 2007 10:47 by Chris Murray
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The We! publication of Isis women, based in the Phillipines is now out. It, as usual, draws together the threads of globalised resistance and how Western and globalised economic movements effect emergent democracies and economies. http://www.isiswomen.org is affiliated to the European Feminist Forum and runs a radio service and links to feminists in Iran, Costa Rica, Iraq and globally. This months issue focuses on the movement for Changes in the UN Gender Architecture Reforms ; and the Movement against CAFTA. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday August 15, 2007 20:57 by Fredrick Forsyth
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At last it's happening! Yippeeee! Whatever! the Glorious leader of Venezuela Hugo Chavez is today presenting his reforms of the five pillars of that state's constitution to the National Assembly. Item 1 for attention is his life-long presidency. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Wednesday August 15, 2007 14:23 by Nasser Asgary
This is a special edition of Workers in Iran. The main topic covered is the imprisonment of Iranian Trade Union Leaders Mansoor Ossanlou and Mahmoud Salehi and the campaign for their release. Full text of this edition at link below. Release Mansoor Ossanlou and Mahmoud Salehi Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI) strongly supports the proposed international action for the release ofMansur Osanlu and Mahmud Salehi. WPI ceaselessly exposes the crimes of the Islamic regime in Iran against both the workers as well as the people at large, and struggles for the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners in Iran, including Mahmud Salehi and Mansur Osanlu. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / other press Wednesday August 15, 2007 09:07 by John mcDermott
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Discredited former T.D. gets 100,000 per annum sinecure in the Seanad(to keep his mouth shut?) Ivor the Engine is waiting in the Seanad to relaunch his career. The High Court hearing of the Taxiplate owners compensation case taken against the state, and its various agencies, by solicitors,Obrien McMahon Downes has been delayed as the state has asked for a sixteen week adjournment to enable it defend its corner.It will be early 2008 before the case reaches the Four Goldmines.It may cost the taxpayer 200 million euros.Bertie Ahern and his special envoy Ivor Callely are central to this issue. http://www.soldiersofdestiny.org/taxitaxi.htm http://www.soldiersofdestiny.org/iscallelyacrooktoo.htm read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday August 14, 2007 18:32 by Yassamine Mather
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Yassamine Mather writes on the judicial murder of 50 people in Iran. She also points out that according to Iranian Govt figures, 150,000 women have been arrested for wearing an "improper hijab" (ie letting their hair show). Full article at link. At the end of July and beginning of August 2007, in less than a week, over 50 people were executed by public hanging in Iran’s islamic republic. This has taken place against the background of a campaign entitled ‘enforcement of national security’, under which over one million Iranians have faced questioning. Meanwhile, the state claims that it has arrested 4,000 ‘delinquents’ and detained 43,000 accused of drug offences. Just as alarmingly, anti-war, anti-imperialist activists such as Mansour Ossanlou and Mahmoud Salehi, as well as many workers and students, are held in prison on trumped-up charges. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Tuesday August 14, 2007 13:18 by C Murray
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Ariadna Grandson. Nuria Morello. Roman Sesen Laia Serra Were arrested and detained whilst touring the city of Oaxaca on the evening of the fifth of August 2007, they are currently detained in a deportation centre in Mexico. They have released two letters assuring people of their safety and reporting brutal treatment by their captors. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / other press Monday August 13, 2007 10:33 by Cedar
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In the aftermath of the setback for the broad left in the May 2007 elections there has been a substantial focus in both establishment and alternative media about the implications for Sinn Féin and, to a slightly lesser extent, the Labour party. Yet it is perhaps the Socialist Party that suffered the most....... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / other press Monday August 13, 2007 03:12 by Ireland with Jose Artigas-Sudamérica
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Peter Campbell, soldier of the british empire on the S.XIX siecle, desertó (to desert) and live with gauchos and indios charrúas (sorry, I can't speak english). Luego fue soldado (soldier) de José Gervasio Artigas, en la Liga Federal sudamericana. read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday August 12, 2007 21:31 by Cloud Buster
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On Saturday the 11th of August the UK Police stated that they would use anti-terrorist legislation to break the Heathrow Climate Change Camp, since then they have placed a press embargo on the camp and refused toilet and hygeine facilities to the protestors. The indymedia.org.uk site is covering on features and the Guardian has interviewed a cross- section of protestors opposed to the airport expansion. read full story / add a comment |
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