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international / anti-capitalism Wednesday January 25, 2012 - 02:12 by pat c 5 comments (last - thursday april 05, 2012 - 02:25) 3 images
Matt Lygate the Scottish Socialist Republican has died. Here is an obituary.Matt was a believer, not just in Socialism but also in Christianity. If there is an afterlife then he has gone to join John Maclean and James Connolly. Full text at link. Born on 26/12/1938 in Govan Glasgow. From early on,Matt became an accomplished artist, orator, and thinker. He always loved the great outdoors and would often dissapear for hours up hills and down gullies. As a teenager, he moved to Sunderland with his family and became one of the best renouned tailor’s cutters of his time. When ordered to join the British Army (conscription was still in place even after the war), Matt, like his father during WWI, refused stating he would never join an imperialist British Army. That same week, he was on a boat to New Zealand before the powers that be could abscond him. Matt had been an avid member of the CPGB as well as a devout Christian, believing that Christ himself was a revolutionary socialist. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday January 24, 2012 - 14:34 by pat c 1 comment (last - wednesday january 25, 2012 - 06:19)
Effectively the EU have declared War on Iran. Sanctions are War by other means. There is now a risk of confrontation between Iran and the Imperialists in the Gulf of Hormuz. There is only one side to be on in such a confrontation: Sink the US ships! Sink the UK ships! Full text at link. European Union (EU) foreign ministers meeting in Brussels yesterday imposed far-reaching economic sanctions on Iran, including an embargo on Iranian oil imports that will come into full force in July. The embargo is an act of economic war that heightens the danger of a slide into military hostilities in the Persian Gulf. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday January 24, 2012 - 14:22 by pat c
The Romanian people fight back against austerity. The Irish could learn a few lessons from them. Full text at link. As protests in Romania enter their second week, workers are facing increased pressure and threats from the ruling elite. The first demonstrations were triggered by the forced resignation of Dr. Arafat, a member of government who had publicly opposed a health care bill that would privatise the Romanian public health system. President Traian Basescu, who personally championed the bill, quickly tried to ease tensions by withdrawing it on Friday, January 13, the first day that demonstrators gathered in Bucharest to protest outside the Presidential Palace ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday January 23, 2012 - 22:13 by pat c 4 comments (last - tuesday january 24, 2012 - 15:10)
More trouble for the islamist NTC. Full text at link. TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Fighters loyal to Libya's overthrown leader Muammar Gaddafi took control of a town south-east of the capital on Monday, flying their green flags in defiance of the country's fragile new government. The fightback by Gaddafi supporters defeated in Libya's civil war, though unlikely to spread elsewhere, added to the problems besetting a government which in the past week has been reeling from one crisis to another. Gaddafi himself was captured and killed in October after weeks on the run. Accounts from the town of Bani Walid, about 200 km (120 miles) from Tripoli, described armed Gaddafi supporters attacking the barracks of the pro-government militia in the town and then forcing them to fall back. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Monday January 23, 2012 - 15:31 by @ 4 comments (last - wednesday february 01, 2012 - 06:12)
Feb 2nd edition 2012 - "Rolling Stone" interview with Julian Assange of WikiLeaks http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/julian-assang...20118 ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Sunday January 22, 2012 - 19:14 by Volunteer support 1 comment (last - monday january 23, 2012 - 10:36) 1 image 2 video files
INTERVIEW: Sunny Jacobs and Peter Pringle were both handed down the death penalty after being convicted of murders they did not commit. LORNA SIGGINS hears how they met the challenge and how the experience led them to each other WHEN SUNNY JACOBS was in solitary confinement in a US correctional institution, having had a death sentence converted to life imprisonment, she relied on her creativity to keep her sanity. In imagining many things – prison guards as her servants, for instance, and no bills to pay – she never once dreamed she would feature in the weddings section of the New York Times. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday January 21, 2012 - 14:55 by loulou
Notre-Dame-des-Landes, France - In case of eviction : Demonstration and Re-Occupation IF THEY EVICT, WE WILL COME BACK ! To re-plant, to re-construct - against the airport! Bring pitchforks, wooden beams, planks, nails and tools ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Friday January 20, 2012 - 14:15 by Barry Finnegan
"Bulgarians shut the Frack Up In good fracking news to the East... ... read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality Thursday January 19, 2012 - 00:35 by Maryam
Women strike back against the medieval muslim molestersEgyptian women lashing out at morality police, quite literally. Vigilante gangs of ultra-conservative Salafi men have been harassing shop owners and female customers in rural towns around Egypt for “indecent behavior,” according to reports in the Egyptian news media. But when they burst into a beauty salon in the Nile delta town of Benha this week and ordered the women inside to stop what they were doing or face physical punishment, the women struck back, whipping them with their own canes before kicking them out to the street in front of an astonished crowd of onlookers. . ... read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday January 18, 2012 - 17:35 by Cathal Larkin
From this week's UCC Express, the Newspaper of Cork University. It doesn't have an online edition. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday January 17, 2012 - 16:27 by Domenico Attanasii 1 image 1 video file
Words are important, even the President of the Abruzzo region, Gianni Chiodi, which, together with colleague Hugh Cappellacci of Sardinia, is the last president of Italy in terms of liking. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday January 13, 2012 - 23:37 by theDetail.tv
PATRICIA Campbell worked as a nurse in the Belfast Trust for over 10 years, with a career that spanned a quarter of a century. However, ever since a minor accidental misdemeanour resulted in her dismissal, she has been engaged in an uphill battle to hold her employers to account. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday January 12, 2012 - 21:30 by Steven Argue 1 image
"I learned from William Singletary's wife, Jeannette, that he died this morning. Bill was a courageous man who lived fighting to make the truth known that Mumia is innocent in the shooting death of police officer Daniel Faulkner. For that Bill suffered severe personal and financial consequences. I've known Bill since June 1990 when he came forward with his eyewitness testimony for Mumia and as a witness at the PCRA hearing in 1995, when I was co-counsel for Mumia." -Rachel Wolkenstein
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national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday January 11, 2012 - 17:08 by pat c
Eoghan Harris never lets up on the killers of Jerry McCabe. But what does he have to say about the killers of RUC inspector Elliott? Harris was a member of Official Sinn Fein when this killing took place. The OIRA were supposedly on ceasefire for 2 1/2 years. There is no record of Harris condemning the killing of Insp Elliot at the timet. Will he condemn it now and explain why he thought it was ok in 1974? Could it be that Harris is a hypocrite? Two men have been arrested by detectives investigating the murder of a policeman shot dead during a bank robbery in Northern Ireland almost 40 years ago. RUC Inspector Bill Elliott was gunned down as he attended the scene of the robbery in north Belfast in 1974. The 58- and 61-year-old suspects were detained in Co Antrim this morning. They have been taken to the police’s serious crime suite in Antrim town for questioning. Mr Elliott was driving on his own when he heard news that a robbery was under way at the Ulster Bank in the Rathcoole area in September 1974. The 48-year-old, who was married with a son, raced to the scene and died after a shootout with republicans from the Official IRA who were armed with two submachine guns and a pistol. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday January 10, 2012 - 15:06 by Nico 2 images
Join the debate and fight against Imperialism! ☭ ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous Tuesday January 10, 2012 - 13:23 by RNU Belfast 2 images
A dangerous splinter group from the far right British National Party is attempting to spread its tentacles across Britain in the wake of last years acrimonious split with the larger Griffen faction in a row over working conditions, corruption and harassment.
And their base is to be Belfast. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday January 07, 2012 - 16:12 by pat c 5 comments (last - tuesday january 10, 2012 - 11:31)
Aisling Byrne writes about the US plans for regime change in Syria. Byrne is not a lackey of the Syrian regime, in this article she is critical of it and how it has handled the crisis. She worked in Syria and saw the Secret Police in action. But she says: what may have began as popular protests, initially focused on local issues and incidents (including the case of the torture of young boys in Dera'a by security forces) were rapidly hijacked by this wider strategic project for regime change. "War with Iran is already here," wrote a leading Israeli commentator recently, describing "the combination of covert warfare and international pressure" being applied to Iran. Although not mentioned, the "strategic prize" of the first stage of this war on Iran is Syria; the first campaign in a much wider sectarian power-bid. "Other than the collapse of the Islamic Republic itself," Saudi King Abdullah was reported to have said last summer, "nothing would weaken Iran more than losing Syria." [1] ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday January 07, 2012 - 15:57 by pat c
The relentless march to War continues. Peter Symonds writes on how the EU sanctions are part of the Imperialist war-drive against Iran. Sanctions are War by other means. Full text at link. European Union’s (EU) in-principle decision on Wednesday to impose an embargo on oil imports from Iran has further escalated the danger of military conflict in the Persian Gulf. The EU move dovetails with President Obama’s signing on Saturday of US legislation designed to cripple the Iranian banking system and cut the country’s oil exports. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday January 03, 2012 - 23:48 by T 3 comments (last - sunday september 23, 2012 - 17:33) 1 image 1 video file
President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law on New Year’s Eve. The bill provides a massive $662 billion for the US war machine and makes unprecedented inroads into democratic rights, authorizing the US military to seize individuals anywhere in the world and hold them in a military detention facility indefinitely, without a trial or any other legal recourse. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-capitalism Monday January 02, 2012 - 09:55 by Jimmy McPseudonym
Below is the full text of an email sent to all MLA's on Christmas day. Sorry I'm putting this up a bit late. ... read full story / add a comment |
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