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Why bad movies keep coming out and what to do about it By John Pilger
As an inveterate film fan, I turn to the listings every week and try not to lose hope. I search the guff that often passes for previews, and I queue for a ticket with that flicker of excitement reminiscent of matinees in art deco splendour. Once inside, lights down, beer in hand, hope recedes as… Continue reading
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Mass Hunger Strike by Californian Prisoners Protesting Torture: Dangers of Starvation-related Deaths By Dylan Murphy
On Monday 8 July over 30,000 prisoners in 24 of California’s jails started an indefinite hunger strike and work stoppage. This historic struggle is the third hunger strike by prisoners in three years. The prisoners are protesting against indefinite solitary confinement in Security Housing Units (SHU’s). An additional 2,300 prisoners refused to work or attend… Continue reading
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Greek Lessons From Below By Sofiane Ait Chalalet and Chris Jones
Life without papers has changed in the last five years. Earlier, before austerity and recession struck, most of the refugees could find work with wages. Without papers they were inevitably highly exploitable and many were. But now there is virtually no work with wages. On top of this terror of having no income to live,… Continue reading
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The Greek Crisis and the Left Response: Two Essays by Panagiotis Sotiris
For the past three years Greece has been at the same time an experiment in neoliberal social engineering and a laboratory of movements and collective struggles. For the first time in many decades we have the case of a country entering a phase of profound social and political crisis that has the potential to turn… Continue reading
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HAITI: Massive March Signals Resurrection of Aristide’s Lavalas Movement By Kim Ives
Well over 15,000 people poured out from all corners of Haiti’s capital to march alongside the cortege of cars that carried former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide back to his home in Tabarre from the Port-au-Prince courthouse he visited on May 8. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks is a rare truth-teller. Smearing Julian Assange is shameful By John Pilger
Last December, I stood with supporters of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange in the bitter cold outside the Ecuadorean embassy in London. Candles were lit; the faces were young and old and from all over the world. They were there to demonstrate their human solidarity with someone whose guts they admired. Continue reading
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U.S. intelligence agencies are preparing for the developing crisis in Venezuela By Nil NIKANDROV
Hostile forces in Venezuela and beyond, are taking the opportunity to intensify subversive activities aimed at overthrowing the Bolivarian government. The conspiracy, which is coordinated from CIA headquarters, is implemented via many channels and is aimed at destabilizing Venezuela, inciting internal conflict in the nation’s leadership, and fanning the feelings of panic over an alleged… Continue reading
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VSC SPECIAL UPDATE, JANUARY 11, 2012: Venezuelan Supreme Court Rules Chavez Can Be Sworn in Later, Packed Solidarity Event & Messages of Support for Hugo Chavez
On Wednesday 9 January, Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) ruled that President Hugo Chávez’s new term in office starts today and that the postponement of the swearing-in ceremony, that was due today, is permitted under the constitution. Nor, the Supreme Court added is there any vacuum of power or a constitutional requirement for someone… Continue reading
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Mleeta, Khiam, Sabra, Shatila and Resistance In General By Gilad Atzmon
It was my second visit to the country. 30 years ago I crossed the Lebanese border along with an IDF convoy escorted by tanks and armed vehicles. Then I was an occupier, this time I came with only my saxophone and a desire to share my thoughts and deliver some beauty. Continue reading
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WHY HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTIONISM IS A DEAD END By Jean Bricmont
Unable to find a new ideological identity after the demise of its big Soviet brother, the European left has engulfed itself in societal issues at home and humanitarian interventionism abroad. In an inconsistent stance, it calls for the protection of peoples by U.S. imperialism. But how can it wish to protect anyone when it has… Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 609: POLITICAL PIED PIPERS, WORKER UNREST & TOILET APARTHEID
6 December 2012 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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Video: Palestine Activism in the UK
Across Britain growing numbers of people are acting in solidarity with Palestinians Continue reading
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NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION IN SUPPORT OF GAZA SATURDAY 24 NOVEMBER
23 November 2012 SOLIDARITY WITH GAZA • END THE SIEGE NOW Protest tomorrow to show solidarity with the people of Gaza. Assemble 12 noon Downing St March to Israeli Embassy. Details here…Transport from outside London… Map of march route… Continue reading
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The Greek Left and the Rise of the Neo-Fascist Golden Dawn By Panagiotis Sotiris
For the past months there has been an intense debate both in Greece but also in international media regarding the rise of the neo-fascist Golden Dawn in Greece. The reason is obvious: for the first time in a European Union (EU) country a political party that in contrast to most of the varieties of the… Continue reading
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The Marikana Massacre and the South African State's Low Intensity War Against the People By Vishwas Satgar
The massacre of the Marikana/Lonmin workers has inserted itself within South Africa’s national consciousness, not so much through the analysis, commentary and reporting in its wake. Instead, it has been the power of the visual images of police armed with awesome fire power gunning down these workers, together with images of bodies lying defeated and… Continue reading
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Democratic Left Front: Justice now for the Marikana workers and community!
On August 16, 2012, post-apartheid democracy lurched into a horror. It was estimated 34 mineworkers at the Lonmin mine in the North West province were brutally gunned down by police, and in total over 70 workers have been injured. The death toll at this stage is still not completely verified, with the community still reporting… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 