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international / politics / elections / other press Tuesday March 04, 2008 11:40 by Drew
The latest edition of THE RED STAR, Nepal's National Magazine is now available on line.

There are articles on

the upcoming election,

Indian Expansionism, read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday March 04, 2008 09:13 by OZ   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 14, 2009 23:24)
Satirical clip (very funny) on Peter Garrett former lead singer of radical rock group "Midnight Oil now Australian government minister does yet another backflip on U.S. bases, uranium etc etc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIsJCR6w1Vg
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Haft Tapeh Workers Protest.
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday March 03, 2008 15:57 by pat c   text 6 comments (last - saturday march 22, 2008 14:57)   image 1 image
The lead articles in this issue are about Mahmoud Saleh; and the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Company workers. Full text at link.

Mahmoud Salehi
Mahmoud Salehi, the founding member of the Committee of the Trade Association of Bakery Workers, Saqez - Kurdistan, and founding member and spokesperson of The Coordinating Committee to Form Workers Organisations is still being held in
prison despite a serious deterioration in his health.

Haft Tapeh Workers
The workers of state-owned Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Company have issued a statement detailing their on-going struggle and resolution to form their own independent labour organisation. read full story / add a comment
Pamplona style
international / arts and media / other press Saturday March 01, 2008 18:02 by Feminist Polemix   text 7 comments (last - sunday march 02, 2008 20:58)   image 3 images
This being a leap year, anyone who wants to jump the broom and get the Alpha
male should have proposed last night... Today, was the annual (instituted in
1947) Filene's 'Running of the Brides' .

Thousands of young brides go haywire trying to buy a wedding gown in the bargain
basement of a huge Department store. It's a blood sport where the winners are
those that can squeeze their figures into a knock-down Vera Wang or some such
label. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-capitalism / other press Saturday March 01, 2008 17:07 by Asqar Karimi   text 11 comments (last - monday march 03, 2008 16:54)   image 1 image
Asqar Karimi of the Worker-communist Party of Iran appeals for solidarity to isolate the Iranian Dictatorship and to to help the Iranian People to overthrow this brutal regime. Full text at the link.

To the people of the world! To trade unions, student unions, women’s rights organisations!
3 Labour activists were flogged in Sanandaj and 8 others are to be flogged for taking part in a May Day rally! The Islamic Republic has taken another step against the working class and all the people in Iran. Their aim is to silence, crush and dehumanize. Its what the slave driver did 20 centuries ago. This time, however, they are dealing with a working class that has no intention of submitting; a working class whose struggles and leaders are known to the whole world.

·Official figures say, in the past 10 months,1 million women have been arrested, fined and/or flogged for not being dressed as demanded by the Islamic government and for courtship with the opposite sex; read full story / add a comment
Shell To Sea newsletter
international / environment / other press Saturday March 01, 2008 14:14 by JM   image 1 image   1 attached file
Neighbours of Norfolk's giant gas terminal are today pondering how close they came to disaster after a blast rocked the seaside complex. read full story / add a comment
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national / housing / other press Saturday March 01, 2008 00:30 by Belfast WSM   image 1 image
New housing poster produced by Belfast WSM read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Friday February 29, 2008 19:01 by reabhloid dearg   text 28 comments (last - wednesday march 05, 2008 20:28)
Founding IRSP member Jim Daly argues in his presentation at the RSYM Winter School that Green and Orange are incompatible, and that the traditional failure of Republican leaderships left and right to recognize this is part of the reason for the present debacle. Jim argues that only Republican socialist leaders such as Connolly and Costello were free of the illusion of their compatibility. read full story / add a comment
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international / arts and media / other press Friday February 29, 2008 17:03 by blur   image 1 image
At the video platform now a mobilization clip for the Revolutionary 1st of May 2008 in Berlin-Kreuzberg is puplished. Will there be also a virtual riot like in the last year at the second-life newBerlin at first of may? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Friday February 29, 2008 16:28 by Red Banner
Issue 31 of Red Banner is out now, available at €2 / £1.50 from Red Banner sellers, good bookshops, or from the address above. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Friday February 29, 2008 14:43 by Joe   text 21 comments (last - tuesday april 01, 2008 01:47)
Five boys and a 6 onth old baby ere killed in in Jabalya, a refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip and two in the West Bank on Thursday. Witnesses said the children were playing soccer when they were killed by an Israeli missile. The baby was killed when Israeli jets bombed a government building
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Patricia Verdugo RIP
international / gender and sexuality / other press Friday February 29, 2008 13:21 by Obit   text 3 comments (last - saturday march 29, 2008 20:39)   image 1 image
" We should preserve in adults the confident and Joyful attitude of children"

Patricia Verdugo has died. She helped form in Chile 'The Women's Movement for Life' ( 1983), which comprised
women politicians, activists and writers;a cauccas of women opposed to the Pinochet regime. The WML
organised protests against Pinochet .

She was a journalist , an activist and an academic, who in the immeadiate aftermath of her father's assasination
began her career to expose the Pinochet Regime.

She founded 'Hoy' , established 1977. The Publication operated throughout the dictatorship and retained an
independent critical position against the dictatorial regime.
Her books included; 'Bucharest 187' and 'The Claws of the Puma' (1989) read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Thursday February 28, 2008 15:54 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - friday february 29, 2008 14:38)
Yet another Iranian Trade Unionist is threatened with flogging by the Iranian Theocratic Regime. His "crime"? Participating in "illegal" Mayday demonstrations. Here is an appeal from Iranian Trade Unionists, support them in their struggle against the Iranian Dictatorship.

A summons for the administration of a flogging has now been issued for Tayyeb Chatani for participating in the May 1st event last year. Mr Chatani works at Par Rees factory, where he is an active shop steward. Eleven of the workers arrested for taking part in the May 1st event last year in Sanandaj were sentenced to 91 days in prison and 10 strikes of the lash. The Appeal Court changed the sentences to fines, but upheld the sentence of 10 lashes. So far, the lashing have been carried out in the case of 3 workers: Seddigh Amjadi, Habibollah Kalekaani and Faares Gaviliaan. The only crime of these workers is having participated in the May Day ceremony in Sanandaj. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Thursday February 28, 2008 14:25 by Joe   text 5 comments (last - sunday march 30, 2008 21:31)
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday praised Japan’s “firm” stance on Iran as the Zionist state agreed to strengthen ties with Japan. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday February 27, 2008 18:24 by Seán Ryan
An article that's currently doing the rounds is one which the authorities wish would quietly go away.

Let's not forget that we in Ireland facilitate this barbarity by allowing the unfetterd access of our airports and airspace to the CIA. Wink wink... Nod nod... read full story / add a comment
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international / crime and justice / other press Tuesday February 26, 2008 19:49 by C Murray   text 4 comments (last - wednesday march 05, 2008 12:21)   image 5 images
The 52nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women began meeting at the United
Nations Headquarters in New York yesterday and will be in session until the seventh of March.

A coalition of over 150 International Non-Governmental Organisations who represent the
Civil Society Groups on advocating for stronger gender reform architecture (GEA) will be in
session. Mostly these groups are known on Indymedia and the IMC's because they
have not stopped bringing the issue of Measurable Reform in the area of gender
equality to the table. and Ban Ki-moon agrees.
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday February 26, 2008 14:45 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 06, 2008 15:48)   image 1 image
This an extract of a letter from The National Union of Dismissed and Unemployed Workers of Iran To the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) regarding workers being flogged for participating in May 1st actions in Iran. Full text at the link.

Dear Friends,

As you are aware the police and security forces assaulted last year’s peaceful May 1st rally in the city of Sanandaj, battered workers, and arrested 13 of them. Among them were Mr. Shays Amaani and Mr. Seddigh Karimi, President and Executive Committee member of our union, respectively. They were released on a $50,000 bail each after 42 days in detention. The court sentenced them to two-and-a-half years’ imprisonment. We appealed, but the Court of Appeal has not yet given its verdict. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday February 26, 2008 14:04 by John Cornford
Jim Moody interviews Ahmed Hussain who has defected from the SWP to the Conservative Party.

JM: Why have you left Respect (Independent) group on Tower Hamlets council?

AH: Initially the four of us left the party because of the leadership: it was not going anywhere. It was just out of order, because everyone was doing what they wanted to do. The reason I left the new group is because we were trying, but we were not going anywhere to help the community.

The other thing is, the party itself is just not going anywhere because the electoral commission has put an embargo on the name. You can’t really re-establish the party all over again. It was quite hard to do with Respect. People had elected me to the council to serve them, and that was not happening because I was concentrating more on party problems. That was why I thought I should move on to another party. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday February 26, 2008 01:59 by Abu Saad   text 29 comments (last - sunday may 29, 2011 23:14)   image 3 images
Bono has a hard decision to make . Live up to his old "Sun City" Anti-Apartheid stance.... or ignore Palestinian suffering in order to delight the Israeli military regime with a cultural visit. read full story / add a comment
Graph of the minimum extent reached of Arctic sea ice each summer
international / environment / other press Friday February 22, 2008 00:06 by Terence   image 1 image
This is a must listen podcast and presents the case that we are in grave danger with the climate as the effects of global warming are happening much quicker than anyone has in public admitted. According to Philip Sutton, we need to declare a Sustainability Emergency. In this report, he outlines how the existing institutes have failed.
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