Here's a quick reply:

The Newswire is for reports from actions and demonstrations primarily in the uk - with the focus on reports from participants.

See the guidelines set out when you hit the 'Publish' button (reprinted below) which explains that the newswire is a place for news and not commentary.

This is the reason why the posting was removed - because it was, as has been said a 'condemnation of the Labour party's foreign policy', as opposed to being a news posting.

These recent postings asking why the original article has gone come in fact just as we are working to create a separate section of the website to accommodate such contributions - please be patient - we're still getting
used to the code that's being used on the site.

We will later tonight post an article explaining all of this, including guidelines for use, and as we were planning, the couple of postings themselves that were removed from the newswire (if the posts had an email address we would have explained this in an email to the person who posted it).

The site is still evolving and the article tonight will give you a good idea of the new facilities that will be added.

Indymedia UK Crew.

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Text from the 'Publish' page:

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