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Wednesday 19 January – ‘This is Not a Subject for Comedy’
Don’t miss a one-off performance by Jewish comedian Ivor Dembina’s sixty-minute solo comedy show about Israel Palestine and the Jews. A story with jokes about a London Jew brought up to love Israel who has his support for the Jewish state challenged by his visits to the West Bank after the outbreak of the second… Continue reading
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STOP THE WAR COALITION Newsletter No.11834 7th January 2011
7 January, 2011 — STOP THE WAR COALITION IN THIS NEWSLETTER: 1) AFGHANISTAN AND THE WAR ON TERROR 2) UPCOMING EVENTS Continue reading
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SERCO – The Corporate Dictatorship
8 January, 2011 The biggest company you’ve never heard of… For more on Serco see Corporate Watch 1st collector for SERCO – The Corporate Dictatorship Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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Book Review: Britain’s dangerous double games By Tapani Lausti
Curtis’s latest book opens up a weird world where British national interests are promoted by collusion with forces which at first sight have nothing to do with those interests. This is how Curtis sums it all up: ‘Islamist groups have long performed a variety of key functions for British foreign policy, as we have seen… Continue reading
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1 January, 2011 — Collected from New Le…
1 January, 2011 — Collected from New Left Project If only Andrew Marr’s interview with Tony Blair had gone more like this: Continue reading
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Tommy Sheridan Around the Blogs
I’ve not really followed the story of Tommy Sheridan and him being found guilty of perjury. Instead, if you can be bothered, check out Tommy Sheridan Around the Blogs. Continue reading
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UK: They destroy, we create: join Artists of the Resistance By Luna 17
‘Len McCluskey calls for a ‘broad strike movement’ to stop the coalition’s ‘explicitly ideological’ programme of cuts. Government cuts are decimating education, welfare, health, sports and the arts. We are told that they are inevitable; that the only choice we have is between music classes for our kids or care for our elderly. Continue reading
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Diego Garcia: Wikileaks confirm Greenpeace-backed `marine protection zone' was a ruse; Police ban socialist protests
Whistleblower website Wikileaks confirmed the worst of suspicions by releasing a document, as part of the US diplomatic cables leak, that stated the marine reserve was established primarily to legally block attempts by the Chagossians to return to their homeland. Continue reading
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Diego Garcia: Wikileaks confirm Greenpeace-backed `marine protection zone’ was a ruse; Police ban socialist protests
Whistleblower website Wikileaks confirmed the worst of suspicions by releasing a document, as part of the US diplomatic cables leak, that stated the marine reserve was established primarily to legally block attempts by the Chagossians to return to their homeland. Continue reading
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Student Protests and the Emerging Discontent of Youth By Oliver Huitson
The “iPod generation” have long been written off as apathetic, pampered wasters; a collection of illiterate Nathan Barleys draining their parents resources. Yet, from the storming of Tory HQ to campus occupations across the country, it is those same youth now leading public resistance to the Coalition’s cuts. The tripling of tuition fees is unquestionably… Continue reading
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Jody McIntyre: It is rough out there
“Suddenly, four policemen grabbed my shoulders and pulled me out of my wheelchair. My friends and younger brother struggled to pull me back, but were beaten away with batons. The police carried me away. Around five minutes later, my younger brother was also forced through, the wheelchair still in his hands.” Continue reading
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Imaginationland
Imagine it was North Korea, says China. Imagine it was Iran or Zimbabwe or Burma. Among scenes of ‘violence’, with police lashing out at protesters landing one in hospital with a serious brain injury, there is some shocking footage: Continue reading
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Published for the first time, the papers which could finally force full inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly By Miles Goslett
Today, the Daily Mail publishes for the first time the legal document which could trigger a full coroner’s inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly. The document, formally known as a memorial was written by group of campaigning doctors who have been trying to secure an inquest since 2004. It lists the sequence of… Continue reading
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Media Lens: What Happened To Academia? – Part 1
We have long been fascinated by the silencing of academe. How does it work in an ostensibly free society? What are the mechanisms that bring the honest and outspoken to heel? The late historian Howard Zinn described how the well-intentioned desire to work for progressive change “gets tangled in a cluster of beliefs so stuck,… Continue reading
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Our youth are leading the way By Jeremy Corbyn
From the comfort of the Commons, Business Secretary Vince Cable – having turned from economic saint to monetarist ogre in seven months – calmly told the house that state support for higher education teaching would reduce from 60 per cent to 40 and that the rest would be ‘made up by the private sector.’ Continue reading
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BREAKING NEWS: Edinburgh Council Boycotts Veolia!!!
Veolia works with Israeli authorities in Occupied Palestine to provide waste and transport services to Israel’s illegal settlements. The French multinational has already lost contracts across Europe due to sustained protest over its complicity in Israel’s war crimes. Continue reading
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The best 4 minutes and 50 seconds you’ll spend today: ‘We are no longer that post-ideological generation.’
UK: Fifteen year-old tells Establishment to stick it Continue reading
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Made in Dagenham: Lessons for Today from the Golden Age of Factory Unrest? by Steve Early
In 1968, the world was transfixed by global student unrest. Less attention was paid to factory uprisings that occurred at the same time and overlapped with campus protests in places like France. In one small corner of the Ford Motor Company’s huge production complex in Dagenham, England, several hundred women did their part in the… Continue reading
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Shock and despair By William Gladys
Why was there no parliamentary vote on whether or not these appallingly selfish and vastly rich royals should get yet more money from a hard pressed British tax-payer, at a time when the Queen’s government (not yours believe me), is asking everyone else to suffer severe hardship and cut backs? Do not forget that these… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 