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15 February 2013 — New Left Project
Ten years on from the largest public demonstration in British history NLP’s Alex Doherty spoke to Ian Sinclair, author of the new book The march that shook Blair: An oral history of 15 February 2003.
31 January, 2013 — Left Unity
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31 January 2013 — Morning Star Online
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15 January 2013 — Morning Star Online (Comment, no byline)
The situation in Mali is directly linked to the Nato mobilisation in 2011 to overthrow the Gadaffi regime in Libya.
15 January 2013 — Morning Star Online
Western powers are once again using anti-Islamist rhetoric to justify colonial interventions, anti-war campaigners Stop the War Coalition claimed today.
15 December 2012 — Morning Star Online
The West stepped up its intervention in the Syrian civil war this week, with the United States formally recognising the rebel coalition as “the legitimate representative” of the Syrian people.
5 October 2012 – Morning Star
Officers at a flagship Tory council pleaded with ministers for more joined-up government after an asylum-seeker’s child starved to death, it emerged today.
Friday 17 August 2012 — The Morning Star
South Africa‘s police force admitted today that its officers had killed more than 34 miners at the Lonmin Marikana platinum mine on Thursday.
National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) secretary general Frans Baleni put the toll at 36 and blamed the unrest on the rival Association of Mineworkers and Communication Union making promises which could never be delivered and, in the process, organising an illegal action which led to the loss of lives.
29 June 2012 – Comment – Morning Star
The European Union took another step along the road to a capitalist united states of Europe at the eurozone summit in the early hours of yesterday morning.
5 March 2012 — williambowles.info
A BRICS initiative on Syria
Strategic Culture Foundation Today at 20:00
The crisis in Syria shows that Russia and China are creatively adapting the tenets of ‘non-alignment’ to the prevailing world order. This has brought the two countries closer together than at anytime in modern history. They share a common aversion toward Cold-War era ‘bloc mentality’. Neither is prescriptive as to how others should order their national life… What happens in Syria is going to determine the fate and character of the multipolar world order in the coming decades… If India joins hands with Russia and China in an endeavor in search of peace and reconciliation, the prospects of success will remarkably improve. Other influential voices in the world community – the ‘silent majority’ – will also feel encouraged to express…
21 December 2011 — Morning Star by Paddy McGuffin, Home Affairs Reporter
Will rendition of this man land MPs in jail for war crimes?
British ministers could be found guilty of war crimes if the US refuses to hand back a Pakistani citizen held without charge in Afghanistan for seven years.
The government confirmed today that it has complied with a Court of Appeal ruling and written to the US to demand the return of Yunus Rahmatullah to British custody.
Mr Rahmatullah was captured by British forces in Iraq in 2004 and handed to the US, who renditioned him to Bagram airbase in Afghanistan where he has remained ever since.
13 September 2011 — Morning Star
Today one of the world’s biggest arms fairs opened in London, backed by the British government.
On September 8 the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry held a preview entitled Middle East: A Vast Market For UK Defence And Security Companies. The host was the Royal Bank of Scotland, a major investor in cluster bombs.
Well said!
25 August 2011 — Morning Star
Peace campaigners vowed today to oppose RAF plans to operate deadly unmanned Reaper drones from a Lincolnshire airbase. The Ministry of Defence has confirmed it intends to station a ‘Reaper squadron’ at RAF Waddington from next year.
23 August 2011 — Morning Star
Left campaigners in Britain demanded a halt to all British and Nato involvement in Libya today, warning that their intervention had all the hallmarks of the West’s disastrous invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
23 August 2011 — Morning Star
Capitalism is economically, socially and politically bankrupt. So argues the new edition of Britain’s Road to Socialism (BRS), the Communist Party strategy for a society which puts ordinary people first.
23 August 2011 — Morning Star
Fierce fighting erupted across Tripoli today hours after Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi’s son Saif al-Islam popped up to rally supporters and rubbish rebel claims he had been captured.
16 August 2011 — Morning Star
If riots are the voices of the unheard, they’ve come over loud and clear. But nothing we’ve heard from government [that] will bring an end to the causes of unrest.
8 August 2011 — Morning Star
Speculation and condemnation have dominated coverage of the riots in Tottenham at the weekend. Continue reading this...
31 July 2011 — Morning Star
Libya’s rebel council was forced onto the defensive today as it reported fierce fighting with a rival faction over a base on the outskirts of Benghazi.
1 August 2011 — Morning Star
Anti-war activists clashed with Tory ministers today over Britain’s ongoing bombing campaign in Libya.
Tory ministers appeared delusional as the war entered its fifth month by claiming that the war effort had been a success.
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What a disingenuous piece! I read:
“As everyone knows the anti-war movement didn’t stop the war but it arguably had some important impacts during the invasion and occupation. For example Milan Rai maintains that the increased public scrutiny provided by the UK and global anti-war movements reduced the destruction caused by US and UK forces. He points to the fact that the US-led coalition in the 1991 Gulf War targeted and destroyed Iraq’s life-maintaining infrastructure – its electricity system, the water supply, sewage systems etc. However, in 2003 this didn’t happen. In addition, the relatively early withdrawal of UK forces from southern Iraq in April 2009 was arguably a response to the anti-war mood at home. “Their continued presence in Iraq was politically toxic” in the UK, Greg Muttitt, author of Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Iraq, explained in a public lecture at the London School of Economics last year. “Gordon Brown was keen to get rid of them and say ‘that was a Blair problem.’””
The UK’ pulls out’, “relatively early”? SIX years later! This is a response?
Then on Iraq’s infrastructure:
Iraq’s infrastructure had ALREADY been destroyed in 90-91 and ten years of murderous sanctions made sure it never got rebuilt!
Oh how these so-called lefties blow their own trumpets when they don’t even know the tune, let alone know how to play it!
The biggest demo the UK had ever had was the beginning and the end of the ‘anti-war’ movement, ‘led’ disgracefully by the so-called Stop the War Coalition (read the SWP). Another shameful episode in the history of the UK’s imperialist ‘left’.