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Communist Discussion Group: Alienation - 14th April

11-04-2010 21:57

The next Communist Discussion Group meeting will be held at 6:30pm, Wednesday 14th April in The Rutland Arms (Sheffield). The topic of the discussion is “Alienation”. Below is a reading list to give you a general introduction to the topic, but by all means also look elsewhere for further information to enrich the discussion.

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Tune in to a live panel discussion on "activist realism"

10-04-2010 17:41

An opportunity to forge new links between critical theory and contemporary activism...tune in to a live broadcast of the panel discussion happening from 6pm to 10pm - available for download after...

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Is Iran a Threat to Global Security? US is Waging War against the Wrong Country

05-04-2010 13:24

All of what's happening right now resonates with the developments which we've been a witness to two years before the invasion of Iraq. New York Times is exactly replaying the unpleasant scenario it had devised to convince us that the late dictator Saddam Hussein has had Weapons of Mass Destruction. History is being repeated once again and Iran is now subject to a backbreaking, multilateral psychological warfare in addition to the previously-running economic embargo. The very fact that Iran is still standing on its own feet demonstrates the powerful will and strong capability of this nation; however, what's really happening behind the scenes? What will happen if U.S. or its Middle East subordinate, Israel, attack Iran?

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It was 20 years ago today :-)

31-03-2010 11:42

Poll Tax riot London.

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Mock the Election

25-03-2010 21:31

All elections are a JOKE: let’s treat them with the contempt they deserve. In 18th Century South London thousands used to gather to take the piss out of general Elections. Lets revive this fine old tradition!

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Their crime was to be black at the wrong time in the US

24-03-2010 01:35

As a new film charts the story of the Angola 3, wrongly imprisoned in America’s most notorious penitentiary for 37 years, the documentary’s producer and Big Issue co-founder Gordon Roddick tells of the campaign, started by his late wife Anita, to reverse the injustice

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Nottingham Women's History Walk

15-03-2010 17:59

On Saturday March 13, Nottingham Women's History Group organised a women's history walk around the city, exploring the often hidden role that women have played in the growth and development of Nottingham. Around 40 people turned up.

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37 Years of Solitary Confinement: The Angola Three

11-03-2010 03:40

For more than 37 years, two prisoners, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, have been locked down in Angola's maximum security Closed Cell Restricted (CCR) block – the longest period of solitary confinement in American prison history.

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Strangeways prison riot, April 1st 1990

10-03-2010 12:30

Twenty years ago the very day after the Poll Tax riot erupted in Trafalgar Square prisoners in Manchester’s oldest jail took control of the chapel for the start of what was to become the biggest riot and longest rooftop protest in British penal history and triggered a wave of revolt in over twenty other prisons across the country.

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The Poll Tax: Twenty years on

06-03-2010 12:55

On March 5th, Nottingham Radical History Group organised an event to look back on the struggle against the Poll Tax.

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"Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo." - New documentary on UK tour

23-02-2010 18:00

Focuses on prisoners whose torture has been exposed by UK courts and is being investigated by police

Former prisoner Omar Deghayes and journalist Andy Worthington will be speaking at screenings across the country

"Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo" is a new documentary film, directed by filmmaker Polly Nash and journalist Andy Worthington (author of The Guantánamo Files). The film focuses on the stories of three particular prisoners - Shaker Aamer (who is still held), Binyam Mohamed (released in 2009) and Omar Deghayes (released in 2007) - and the tour coincides with a mounting scandal involving British complicity in torture, which focuses on Shaker Aamer and Binyam Mohamed.

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Fighting and Beating the Poll Tax - Friday 5th March 2010

20-02-2010 16:23

Friday 5th March 2010 at
The Sparrows' Nest, St Ann's, Nottingham
Starts 7.00pm

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The rise of the far right and anti-fascism

17-02-2010 12:10

Attached is a recording of a communist discussion group meeting held in Sheffield on 16th February 2010 titled, the rise of the far right and anti-fascism.

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Dresden - Germany: Nazi-march stopped

15-02-2010 19:16

For the first time europe`s biggest annual nazi-march at Dresden, Germany was stopped by mass-blockades and antifascist action.

Translation press release of Alliance "Dresden Nazifrei" and some further information plus translation of antifascist ticker.

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What Do Empires Do?

14-02-2010 23:39

When I wrote my book Against Empire in 1995, as might be expected, some of my U.S. compatriots thought it was wrong of me to call the United States an empire. It was widely believed that U.S. rulers did not pursue empire; they intervened abroad only out of self-defense or for humanitarian rescue operations or to overthrow tyranny, fight terrorism, and propagate democracy.

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Baltic region anarchist newspaper Bez Granits - 2nd issue is out

11-02-2010 13:26

BEZ GRANITS #2 (January 2010)
In early January, 2010, the Baltic region anarchist / libertarian newspaper Bez Granits (No Borders / Without Limits) has published its 2nd issue.

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Nottingham Anarchist Black Cross presents Sacco & Vanzetti

10-02-2010 13:32

Anarchists in Nottingham have recently set up a branch of ABC to fight the prison system and support prisoners. We will be showing the film 'Sacco & Vanzetti' about early 19th Century anarchists and state repression at the Sumac Centre on Sunday 21st Feb at 5pm.

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The Myth of the Good War: America in World War II

10-02-2010 12:33

On the night of February 13-14, 1945, the ancient and beautiful capital of Saxony, Dresden, was attacked three times, twice by the RAF and once by the USAAF, the United States Army Air Force, in an operation involving well over 1,000 bombers.

By the beginning of 1945, the Allied commanders knew perfectly well that even the most ferocious bombing raid would not succeed in “terrorizing [the Germans] into submission,” so that it is not realistic to ascribe this motive to the planners of the operation.

The bombing of Dresden, then, seems to have been a senseless slaughter, and looms as an even more terrible undertaking than the atomic obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which is at least supposed to have led to the capitulation of Japan.

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Visiting A Modern Day Slave Plantation--an interview with Nancy A. Heitzeg

09-02-2010 14:14

My interest in Angola is as both a paradigm of the Southern transformation of plantations into prisons and as a prototype for what we now call the prison industrial complex. Many old plantations in the South became prisons after the Civil War. Angela Y. Davis traces the initial rise of the penitentiary system to the abolition of slavery, writing: “in the immediate aftermath of slavery, the southern states hastened to develop a criminal justice system that could legally restrict the possibilities of freedom for the newly released slaves.”

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Afghan proverb (by Latuff)

07-02-2010 20:38

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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