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Students' Union Presidents Opinion poll

19-10-2006 16:57

The first ever poll of Students' Union Presidents may serve as a wake up call to the NUS.

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SOCPA - brian haw legal update

19-10-2006 16:25

brian has won the right to petition the lords to challenge whether his five-year non-stop protest outside parliament can be controlled under the new serious organised crime and police act legislation. he also has leave to appeal to the high court over the legality of police conditions restricting his current protest. no dates have been set yet for these hearings. meanwhile supporters are warmly welcomed in parliament square.

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Tonkin redux to set off Iran war?

19-10-2006 16:14

So much ruckus has been raised about the false-flag nuclear attack on US soil that would be used to kick off a nuclear confrontation with Iran that the military-industrial complex may be forced to go for their pretext plan B -- an attack on a US battleship. Although the attack would not have the psychological impact of a nuclear attack on US soil, a false-flag attack on a battleship has an advantage to the planners in that the military would be in total control of the scene of the crime and therefore the chain of evidence. this is the tactic that was used to set off the Vietnam War -- which was escalated into full-blown conflict by [1]the false flag attack on the USS Maddox in the Gulf on Tonkin. This time, it may be the USS Eisenhower in the Persian Gulf.

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Parties 'near critical condition'

19-10-2006 16:10

'bout time the 'old guard' FOADied

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Folkestone Literary fest(Nov')_ Pilger,Ali etc (Booking open)

19-10-2006 15:59

Folkestone Lit Fest (10-19 Nov) Booking now open.

Featuring History Weekend incl John Pilger, Tariq Ali, Kate Adie, Frank Furudi, Bettany Hughes. (Also on the Tues-14th) Prof Steve Jones on tackling Creationism...

Copies of the Festival Guide will be availalble at the Anarchists Bookfair this saturday-21 st October !!!

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state of emergency meeting @ London @bookfair

19-10-2006 15:25

State of Emergency - resisting the war on 'terror'
MEETING ROOM 4 1pm - 2pm
Saturday, 21st October, 2006 - London Anarchist Bookfair
10am-7pm, at the Voluntary Sector Resource Centre, 356 Holloway Rd, London, N7 6PA. Tube - Holloway Road

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Housing Association Mergers

19-10-2006 15:09

Councils tenants are promised the earth when they are fed a pack of lies to convince them to vote for the sell-off of their homes, privatisation by any other name. What they are not told however is that they will have no further say in the future of their homes.

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Venezuelan student speaking at SOAS (London)

19-10-2006 14:58

As part of a British speaking tour, Venezuelan student activist Ronny Pante will be speaking at SOAS on Monday 23rd, about the Bolivarian Revolution and its impact in education, and the debate about socialism of the 21st century in Venezuela.

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A glimpse of national ID card enforcement

19-10-2006 14:01

University of Westminster shows the way in ID card enforcement! This university's marketing slogan is most revealing - "educating for a professional life", they say. With a basic principle of compulsory carrying of cards, a 'three strikes' policy to deny you entry to premises & services if you forget your card, and making it a disciplinary offence if you refuse to show one, this kind of education will most certainly be invaluable for future life if the government gets away with introducing its national ID policy.

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Close to 24 million stand up against poverty in resounding message for leaders

19-10-2006 13:54

Is this a clear message from the UN on how the Blair Government and all other 'neoliberal' Governments across the world need to 'reform' the 'welfare-state' that does not violate millions of disabled peoples basic human rights. The current welfare reforms bill reforms is totally against UN anti-poverty message that 24 millions USA citizens have sent a resonding messages to their political leaders.

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UK Police Chief hints at Internment for Muslims Following New "Act of Terror"

19-10-2006 13:49

Last July, Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, said that another terrorist attack in London was inevitable. "I think there will be further attacks" he explained, "in fact I know there will be further attacks". (1)

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No to Torture - former British ambassador to Uzbekistan speaks out against UK/US torture collaboration

19-10-2006 12:47

Audio Craig Murray at a radio interview at the community radio station in NYC

Craig Murray, former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan with over 20 years of foreign affairs experience, talks about torture and human righs abuses in Uzbekistan. He presented his book: "Murder in Samarkand - A British Ambassador's Controversial Defiance of Tyranny in the War on Terror" at the Edinburgh Independent and Radical Bookfair on Friday, 13th of October 2006, at the session on "Political Terrorism and the US Imperial Project".

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Day of Action in Rossport tomorrow Fri the 20th

19-10-2006 12:16

Activists,supportes and concerned individuals from all ove Ireland and further afar are decending on Rossport tonight and tomorrow morning for a day of action against Shell,the State and the thuggish behaviour of the State police force in the area.

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Iran Sparked Islamic Divide, Iran Only Can Defuse It

19-10-2006 11:41

Tehran for the first time and at the highest level has this week went public on the so far taboo Sunni-Shiite divide, accused the American Great Satan of exploiting and fuelling the historic Islamic sectarian tragedy, which is true, but offered no way out of the divide except a verbal call for unity, which has to be tested against the Iranian policies on the ground in Iraq, where the Iranian call can make or break.

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ANTIFA

19-10-2006 11:37

Antifa at the bookfair

1pm, Meeting Room 3, Bookfair.
(not as advertised at www.anarchistbookfair.co.uk)

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Welcome to the Fourth Reich

19-10-2006 11:07

Comment "It is a rare occasion when a President can sign a bill that he
knows will save American lives; I have that privilege this morning," US
President George W Bush trilled as he consigned 200 years of judicial
oversight to the scrap heap of history.

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THINK G8 ! An anticapitalist teach-in

19-10-2006 10:54

TUESDAY 24TH OCTOBER

LOST & FOUND SOCIAL CENTRE

Call 07796 788 111 for directions – entrance free

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Human trafficking and the terms of engagement.

19-10-2006 10:43

This article suggests a cross-cultural consideration is needed when trying to devise policy concerning the trafficking of humans.

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US military and Iraqi deaths soar amidst preparations for major offensive

19-10-2006 10:18

A mockery of Iraqi “democracy,”
The escalating crisis in Iraq, and the American government’s reaction, makes a mockery of Iraqi “democracy,” which has never been anything more than a means through which the occupying forces have sought to solidify their control. Sadr’s organization currently holds 30 seats in the parliament, as well as several cabinet posts. It gained these posts in the much-touted “democratic” elections in 2005. However, this has not stopped American forces from talking openly about destroying the organization.

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monday love! music and movies in portobello

19-10-2006 10:09

monday love
Indymedia, IFIWatch.tv and Spiritualkids have booked Portobello's Mau Mau bar in West London every Monday evening for the coming 3 months. We wanted a home for those who still believe in something more than money and fear.. to watch, listen, chat and chill.