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Leading the fight back?

10-07-2009 10:15

In the first of what we hope will be a series of profiles and interviews with groups and activists, we interviewed Ben Robinson of Youth Fight for Jobs about the campaign’s aims and tactics, as well as the challenges it will face. Ben is writing here in a personal capacity, and his opinions do not necessarily reflect those of YFfJ as a whole. For the original article, with active links, go to  http://theleftluggage.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/leading-the-fight-back/

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3 Nights of Rioting - Death In Custody - France

10-07-2009 09:31

French youths riots continue over death in custody. More interesting than dead paedopopstar...

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Killer Drones ' beyond the pale of human tolerance' says Judge

10-07-2009 08:25

Lord Bingham, who retired last year as a senior law lord, said the aircraft could follow other weapons considered "so cruel as to be beyond the pale of human tolerance" in being consigned to the history books

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Hired Hands: Part 2 - Reporting Elections In Iran And Iraq

10-07-2009 08:09

As discussed in Part 1,  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/07/433973.html media across the UK ‘spectrum’ have expressed outrage at even circumstantial evidence of Iranian political corruption.

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Foie Gras out of Bath! - Contact the sellers!

10-07-2009 07:33

Bath Activist Network needs YOUR help to force foie gras out of Bath, contact the sellers - (politley) at -

Minibar (owned by Alexander Grant)
1 John St
Bath, BA1 2JL
01225 333323

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Fascists attack Villa Amalia, the oldest squat in Greece

10-07-2009 02:28

Fascists under the cover of cops attacked the oldest anarchist squat in Greece with molotov cocktails and beaten a youth. Our comrades successfully driven away the fascists. The squat, Villa Amalia, suffered no damage.

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Picket Indian Embassy - No to landgrab and state terror in Lalgarh, India

09-07-2009 23:14

Protest at the Indian embassy, Birmingham, against the state terror unleashed on the people of Lalgarh, a village in West Bengal, India, who refused complying with a government sanctioned corporate landgrab of 5000 acres of land uprooting them from their homes and depriving them of their livelihood.

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ryanair beining banned from charing extra fees on credit card

09-07-2009 22:32

ryanair beining banned from charing extra fees on credit card

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Hunting the Opponent : French Police Shoot With Flashball Guns Demonstrators in

09-07-2009 22:08

After the eviction of a squat named the "Clinique" in Montreuil, near Paris, police set an ambush to protesters and shot them with flashball guns aiming at their heads. One of the protesters has lost an eye.

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SOS: Mental Health Correctional Facilities.

09-07-2009 20:25

Today torture is legal in the UK in the form of ECT and forced drug administration. This is all occurring under our noses in the form of legislation known colloquially as "Sections".

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ALF free pigeons in Surrey

09-07-2009 20:10

Animal Liberation Front activists claimed freeing pigeons that were trapped by netting under a railway bridge on Guildford Road, Fetcham, Leatherhead, Surrey.

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Interview with Alex from the seized Spirit of Humanity

09-07-2009 20:09

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Alex was one of the 21 people on board the Spirit of Humanity, a small ship that was sailing from Larnaca to Gaza, with a stock of supplies of items such as paper and pens which are on the Israeli list of prohibited items, not allowed into Gaza which remains blockaded six months after the horrors of Operation Cast Lead.

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Prague: Statement of ex-Milada squatters on provisory spaces

09-07-2009 18:53

Split between a proposal of rejecting this space and a full usage as a living space, we finally decided, during a long discussion, that we will use this space in a subversive way.

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After the Greek Riots

09-07-2009 17:28

from the occupied london blog

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Palestine Today 070908

09-07-2009 15:02

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Thursday July 9th 2009.

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Should twitter receive the Nobel Peace Prize?

09-07-2009 14:44

Twitter, Paulo Coelho, Facebook, were instrumental in getting information out of Iran over these last few weeks that the evil Supreme Being has ordered a clampdown on what little democracy exists in Iran. Should they not be joint recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize?

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Greece: last prisoner of the revolthas bail appl. rejected, now on hunger strike

09-07-2009 13:52



Thodoros Iliopoulos is an anarchist and the last prisoner of December’s revolt still in pre-trial detention. He has been in prison since December and as of yesterday is the only prisoner of the revolt to be denied bail - still. On July 9 the court of appeals made explicit, in rejecting Iliopoulos’ application, that it did so on the grounds that Iliopoulos is an anarchist and therefore a “danger for democracy”.

What follows is a translation of Thodoros’ letter from prison, dated July 9.

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Students respond to G8 in Rome with occupations

09-07-2009 13:19

Students in Rome demand housing, basic income and welfare from the G8 Summit.

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Obama praises Italy's 'great' leader as a man of integrity — but it's not Berlus

09-07-2009 12:57

Many Italians will be pleased that when President Obama arrived in Italy yesterday for his first G8 summit he launched into lavish praise of the nation’s “great leader”. This eminent figure had “the admiration of the Italian people”, Mr Obama said, not only for his public service, but his “integrity and graciousness”.