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The "Counter-Situationist" Operation includes bad translations

05-08-2007 19:50

Indeed, Ken Knabb leaves out so many passages -- and not due to apparently objective considerations of "limited space," but due to obviously subjective considerations (we leave our readers to deduce what they are from the passages he has suppressed) -- that his efforts as putative "translator" constitute a one-man counter-situationist operation.

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Royal Mail wildcats spread to north of England

05-08-2007 15:39

Strikers in Sevenoaks
The wildcat strikes at Royal Mail which began in Glasgow, spread across Scotland, and ended today also reached Newcastle, Liverpool and Chester on Thursday. And Hartlepool on Friday.

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Shut Down Guantánamo! Weekly Demo, London

05-08-2007 11:40

The London Guantánamo Campaign has been protesting outside the US Embassy in Mayfair every Friday evening at 6-7pm since February 2007. Come and join us!

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Russian for oil

05-08-2007 11:10

It appears global warming isn't so bad after all, it means that previously unobtainable oil and gas can be now got to due the shrinking of the polar ice caps as demonstrated by russia in their recent planting of a flag on the sea bed under the north pole.

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"Between 20 and 50" escape from Campsfield Immigration Prison

05-08-2007 07:24

After another week of strikes and protests, the GEO-managed centre explodes - for the
2nd time in 6 months.

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German activists arrested under terrorist suspicion

05-08-2007 07:01

"Solidarity Is A Weapon"
Last Tuesday, the German police arrested 4 activists in Berlin under the suspicion of being members or supporters of a terrorist group.

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Iraqi boy found near 5 slain brothers

04-08-2007 20:15

Iraqi police found a young boy, crying but unharmed, next to the bodies of his five brothers on Thursday after they were kidnapped by gunmen.

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Call To All Warriors

04-08-2007 19:33

A Call From
The Ancient City Of
Tara
To Gather All Warriors Of The Earth
To Defend And Sanctify
The Valley of The White Mare

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Monica (Margaret) Jones Of 'Fairford Five' Sentenced - Given Curfew

04-08-2007 19:32

Monica (Margaret) Jones Sentenced For ‘Fairford’ Case.

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Philippines NPA issue death threat against British anti-capitalist

04-08-2007 18:53

A filipino NPA (National People's Army) activist/ supporter has threatened to murder a British anti-capitalist

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Solidarity On Birkenhead Posties Picket Line

04-08-2007 18:12

On Thursday, 02.08.07 along with other posties throughout the country Birkenhead sorting office mounted a picket some 20 strong from 05.30 to 09.00. At approx 07.30 a lorry full of mail from the Chester hub came to deliver.(this would mean that mail would be waiting to be sorted from 5.30 the next day) After consultation with the picket and to the furious dismay of a manager the driver turned his truck around, unloaded back to the hub at Chester.

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Foie Gras in Worcestershire? No Ta!!!

04-08-2007 17:37

Dozens of hotels and restaurants that were selling foie gras (french for "fatty liver" = the diseased liver of duck and goose) have removed this disgusting human luxury from their menus since Aug 06 due to effective peaceful protest.

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Polish Posties Show Solidarity In Liverpool

04-08-2007 17:22

For some weeks we have had Polish casual workers in Liverpool m/c, the mail centre manager has been trying to beat us over the head with them, threatening to train them to operate the machines and such, if we go on strike.

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Cuba 2007: Speaking with the Cuban Libertarian Movement (MLC)

04-08-2007 16:48

* Interview by the Russian newspaper SITUATION from libertarian collective Autonomous Action www.avtonom.org regarding the current political picture in the island. A Spanish translation was published in El Libertario #50, Venezuela, 2007. For more info go to: www.mlc.contrapoder.org.ve -cuban anarchist website- and www.nodo50.org/ellibertario

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Manifesto of solidarity with Venezuelan anarchists and social movements

04-08-2007 16:44

* The newspaper Tierra y Libertad, mouthpiece of the Iberian Anarchist Federation, published in edition 227 of June 2007 this manifesto of the International of Anarchist Federations (IAF-IFA; www.iaf-ifa.org) in support of those who in Venezuela today confront the bureaucratic capitalist project of the Chavez government as well as their social democrat and right wing opponents.

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Clown Army - Hebden Bridge

04-08-2007 14:49

Introduction to Clown Army Hebden Bridge

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Call for International Day of Action Against Immigration Prisons

04-08-2007 14:25

Call for International Day of Action Against Immigration Prisons
on 22 September, 2007

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Extreme weather puts spotlight on climate crisis

04-08-2007 11:02

More extreme weather events are being reported around the globe, killing many thousands and making millions homeless. Simon Hardy argues that capitalism, a root cause of climate change, cannot even handle the misery and suffering which results.

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Israel’s Jewish problem in Tehran

04-08-2007 08:50

There is an interesting problem with selling the “Iran as Nazi Germany” line. If Ahmadinejad really is Hitler, ready to commit genocide against Israel’s Jews as soon as he can get his hands on a nuclear weapon, why are some 25,000 Jews living peacefully in Iran and more than reluctant to leave despite repeated enticements from Israel and American Jews?

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Felix Solidarity Day Today 3rd August

04-08-2007 08:32

Please support this campaign as we seek to free felix and all our other animals friends behind bars - for just being animals.
Discrimination or what?