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Tony Blair's Judgement Day – Pix-&-Vidz, 29 Jan 10

29-01-2010 22:06 | World

Dateline: Iraq Inquiry, Little Sanctuary, Westminster, London, UK, 08:30-11:00, Fri 29 Jan 10 – Hundreds of angry protesters gather outside the QE2 Conference Centre, where Sir John Chilcot and all his little wizards are having a cosy chat with War-Criminal-in-Chief Tony Bliar about what lessons British imperialism can learn from the mountains of corpses in Iraq. The reward offered at www.arrestblair.org for a citizen's arrest attempt on Bliar was promoted, but not claimed, yet... (AFAIK).

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Anthony Blair Testimony, Iraq Enquiry, London - pictures.

29-01-2010 20:14 | Analysis | Iraq | Terror War | World

On an emotional day for many, the Iraq Enquiry hears testimony from former British Prime Minister, Anthony Blair, over his part in the disastrous invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003.

Camden fascist pub and conflicting reports from Camden Council about closure

The Gloucester Arms in Camden has been the subject of demos due to landlord John Coyne's decsion to let hardcore neo nazis the Jobbik Party hold meetings in the pub. The pub is also at the centre of a feud between local tenants & the landlord Coyne, who lets children into the pub where he watches porn. A councillor for Kentish Town told us in an email that the brewery and police are evicting him however Camden Council say different.

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AstraZeneca Day of Action - Cambridge

29-01-2010 19:17 | Animal Liberation | Repression | Cambridge | World

Activists from Cambridge supported SHAC's Global Day of Action against AstraZeneca who are a customer of Europe's biggest Contract Testing laboratory Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS).

The day of action is today 29th Jan 2010 (the demo was on 28th Jan 2010).

Flashback: Impeccable politicians who order the mass killing of ordinary people

29-01-2010 18:11 | Anti-militarism | History | Iraq | World

On 29 January 2003, 50 days prior to the launch of the invasion of Iraq, John Pilger wrote the article below.

Exactly seven years later, UK's former Prime Minister Tony Blair, during his testimony before the "Iraq Inquiry", made the following statement:

"The decision I took - and frankly would take again - was if there was any possibility that he could develop weapons of mass destruction (WMD) we should stop him,"

(source: "I have no regrets says defiant Blair", Independent, 29 January 2010

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/blair-insists-he-was-right-to-stop-saddam-1882847.html)

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Clinton Rejects Russia’s Call for New Europe Security Treaties:Typical propagand

29-01-2010 17:07 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

"Clinton said that a “cornerstone” of European security is the “sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states.” She repeated U.S. calls on Russia to honor the terms of a cease-fire agreement that ended the August 2008 Russia-Georgia war and the administration’s refusal to recognize Russia’s claims of independence for the breakaway Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia." Neither Cliton or the current author bother to recall for us that it was Russia that was the victum of a surprise attack from Georgia, a US "partner." I wonder why?

Food riots as Indian poor revolt

29-01-2010 16:04 | Social Struggles | Birmingham | World

FOOD riots broke out in one of India's poorest states yesterday, as prices soar and revolt deepens.

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Stop The Nazification of Camden, racist policing & racism at Camden Council

Recently the Gloucester Arms has been subjected to protests by anti racists due the landlord John Coyne's decision to allow ultra right wing racists the Jobbik Party hold meetings in the pub. This was not a random decision. Coyne [who claims now to be an Irish nationalist] has boards outside the pub offering British troops 20% discount having bought a former IRA pub and banning all the customers. But...Camden police have banned reggae in Camden Town & threatened nightclubs....

EDO Decommissioner Elijah Smith has moved prison

EDO Decommissioner Elijah Smith has recently been moved from HMP Lewes to HMP Sheppey Cluster (Elmley). He has now spent over one year on remand. Please take a moment to write to him.

Fascist pub Gloucester Arms Camden - any news? Is nazi John Coyne still there?

The Gloucester Arms was targeted by anarchists and anti racists for hosting the neo nazi Jobbik Party meetings in the pub and some sort of spat between the IRA and the UDA, rows with local council tenants, residents campaigns, mothers etc.
Does anyone have any latest news as to whether he has in fact been evicted or just warned by the police and council over noise, nonces and nazis in the pub?

Bilin Protest Leader Kidnapped

28-01-2010 14:01 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Palestine | World

In the early hours of Thursday morning, Mohammed Khatib of the Popular Struggle Co-ordination Committee was arrested in his Bi’lin home. In the latest in a series of similar arrests, Israeli soldiers stormed the house and took Khatib on charges of incitement. ‘Incitement materials’ were reportedly taken from his home. Solidarity activists were forcibly prevented from approaching the scene.

Call For People of Sheffield to Show Their Support for Organ Donation

28-01-2010 13:02 | Health | Sheffield | World

An NHS roadshow takes to the streets of Sheffield this week to call on people to prove their support for organ donation and join the NHS Organ Donor Register (ODR). The travelling roadshow is part of a UK-wide campaign to close the gap between the number of people who say they’d be willing to accept an organ if they needed one – 96% - and those who have pledged to donate by joining the ODR, currently 27%.

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Selina Adda did not fly yesterday

28-01-2010 10:25 | Migration | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Selina and her children were collected from Yarl's Wood IRC at approximate 8 a.m. yesterday morning and taken to Heathrow airport. They were shocked to find that they were not taken into the airport but round the back in the vehicle and taken to near the plane.

The Left and Racial Domination in France: An Interview with Sadri Khiari (MIR)

27-01-2010 17:41 | Anti-racism | Migration | Social Struggles | World

This is an interview with one of the leaders of the Decolonial Movement in France known as Les Indigenes de la Republique. In this interview Sadri Khiari explains the situation of people of color in France and the anti-racist decolonial goals of their organization.

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Haití Can Awaken from the Dark Night of the Boar

26-01-2010 17:18 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

Haití Can Awaken from the Dark Night of the Boar

by Amanda Huerta

"In 1986, Duvalier Jr. was toppled by a popular uprising, that watched the continuance of the dictatorship for two more years until in 1988 Leslie Manigat was elected to the presidency of the Republic, a noble government that was toppled by General Henri Namphy who was replaced that same September by General Prosper Avril. Avril, in power until 1990, had to contend with new revolts. His resignation opened the path to elections under international control and an apparent normalization of political life.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a Catholic priest who had advocated for the poor, obtained a brilliant victory in December of 1990. Coups d’etat, forced exile and return to power were all part of the first Aristide term, who was succeeded by René Preval. Aristide returned to power democratically, and in 2004 a coup d’etat organized and covered by the US obligated him to resign.

In this brief summary of the history of Haiti I omitted “small details” like the economic embargos, assassinations, persecutions, etcetera. Since 2004 the Haitian people have lived, anew, under old and new military occupations at the hands of the US, a country that to this day remains in military control with the collaboration (by omission or commission) of the UN and allied countries.

This same North American occupation force is that which today controls the airport, impeding and/or delaying the arrival of aid for Haiti, as has been denounced by the government of France and an infinity of journalists and reporters in Port au Prince."

Iraq Enquiry: Sir Michael Wood Damns Blair, Straw and Croney Goldsmith

Sir Michael Wood confirmed today that the consistent advice from the FCO's Legal Advisers was that it was illegal in international law to invade Iraq without a second Security Council Resolution following UNSCR 1441. He also made plain that he consistently over two years advised both Blair and Straw direct that the war would be illegal.

Camden Fascist pub = meeting held by Camden UAF Tuesday 26th Jan 2009 7pm

Early in December members of the Jobbik Party, the Hungarian ultra right Nazi party, held a meeting in Kentish Town at the Gloucester Arms pub in Leighton Road. Jobbik have been creating links with the BNP. With the BNP making gains in the European parliament and Nick Griffin standing for Barking and Deagenham now is the time to act to keep Nazis off of the streets of Camden.