World Repression Newswire Archive

Australia: protesters face jail for opposing spy base’s role in Iraq war

04-06-2007 08:17 | Iraq | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The Howard government and the security authorities have gone to extraordinary lengths to suppress any information emerging from the trial about the base or the associated operations of the intelligence agencies. Last year, a judge placed constraining orders on the defendants to prevent them from making any comments about ASIO’s surveillance activities.

G8: 1. a police arson on a bike-convoi and 2. a case of denied first aid

04-06-2007 02:36 | G8 Germany 2007 | Repression | World

1. A convoi of 35 bicyclists was brutally attacked by riot cops near Rostock today.

2.Police and a doctor denied to give first aid to some French activists who were injured due to a car accident

The Saturday riot in Rostock (2)

So we’ve back at the hostel for around an hour and a half after the first trouble when the phone rings. ‘The cops are going fucking mad!’ we are told so it’s back to the rally to see what is going on? A car has been torched since we were last here and the water cannons are out.

JFK Four: Connecting Propaganda Dots from Jamaat al-Muslimeen to Hugo Chávez?

03-06-2007 19:45 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Terror War | World

Russell Defreitas, the elderly and hapless patsy ensnared by the FBI for the crime of dreaming up a fantastical plot to blow up Kennedy Airport, “may have been inspired by Osama bin Laden,” however “was not an al-Qaida wannabe, according to authorities.

According to the corporate media, Defreitas may prove to be a convenient link to Jamaat al-Muslimeen and Hugo Chávez, as the former is basically insignificant beyond the realm of kidnapping and drug smuggling, while the latter is a big fish with a lot of oil at his disposal and the neocons would love to demonize him as a terrorist, thus working toward his overthrow.

video clips of police repression in rostock

video clips of police repression in rostock

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The Saturday riot in Rostock (1)

So, at the end of the demo there was a riot. Which has now been widely reported by the corporate media as being deliberately provoked by tooled up agitators in Black. Change the word black for green and you start getting a bit closer to the truth.

The current counter-revolutionary offensive in Venezuela – what it means and ho

03-06-2007 16:47 | Repression | Workers' Movements | World

The non-renewal of the broadcasting licence to private TV station RCTV in Venezuela has been used by the Venezuelan oligarchy and imperialism to unleash the coup-plotting campaign they were unable to launch at the time of the December 3rd elections.

Despite all the hue and cry over "freedom of expression" the real aim of the oligarchy in Venezuela is to create a situation of chaos, violence and confusion, and if they can, get someone killed in one of the demonstrations. This would allow them to create a favourable international climate and launch an open offensive against the Venezuelan revolution with a combination of the following methods: military coup, assassination of Chávez, imperialist intervention.

Vidfeo Rush: Police Attack Move Against G8 Protest and Concert

03-06-2007 14:44 | G8 Germany 2007 | Globalisation | Repression | World

02/06/2007: A rough cut of some of yesterday's loony police action that, whatever set it off, had no strategic merit whatsoever, other than causing panic, rage and retaliation.

The Controversial Burma Debate

03-06-2007 11:07 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

With the review of Burma’s democratic figurehead for the National League for Democracy (NLD), Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest having passed on the 27th May this year and her freedom denied her, Cat McGovern and Paul Gourdon have carried out some extensive research into one of the main areas concerning her drive for democracy, namely the pros and cons of tourism to Burma.

Rostock, Germany, March Against G8 Video Rush

Video Rush of the march, 02/06/2007.

Guantanamo Bay - Taking Liberties

Springing up across London.

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Spanish police arrested turkish communist!

01-06-2007 09:24 | Repression | World

Comrades,

on the 29 of may the spanish police arrested by order of „Interpol“ the turkish communist Binali Yilidirm at the „Kontiki Playa“-Hotel on Mallorca. Binali Yildirim was on holidays with his football team. Reason for the arrest was a request for extradition from Turkey.

Germany in the run up to G8: A Police State. Here Some Videos.

31-05-2007 23:34 | G8 Germany 2007 | Globalisation | Repression | World

Germany in the run up to G8: A Police State. Here Some Videos.

Israeli High Court Allows Shin Bet to Torture Palestinians

31-05-2007 19:31 | Repression | World

When you've become worse than what you claim to oppose, there is no moral argument for the perpetuation of your actions.

Get the G8 off Africa’s back

Article by the education charity WORLDwrite examining prevailing attitudes on the ability of Africans to self govern and develop their economic and social potential. Explores poverty eradication & poverty reduction along with what debt relief really means in Ghana.

Includes comments by Ghanian Academics Professor Akilagpa Sawyerr and Dr. Yao Graham of Third World Network Africa.

Another WTC7 whitewash has been published in NYTimes

31-05-2007 12:35 | Globalisation | Repression | Terror War | World

A response to yesterday's WTC7 hit piece in the NY Times (see 'A Notion From 9/11 Is Kept Alive' by Jim Dwyer). Why do we bother? Because someone has to keep the concepts of truth and global justice alive as we descend into Rockefeller's 'dream' of a one-world feudal state, that's why!

Australia: NSW: Sydney political scapegoats plead not guilty

31-05-2007 03:05 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

At a committal hearing earlier this year, it was alleged that police went on a fishing expedition of a few suburbs to find alleged material you'd pick up at the shops or on the internet.

Black Agenda Report.

30-05-2007 18:41 | Repression | World

It is not news.

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Saturday Inspiration: Peace is Possible

Peace is Possible - People do Care

R.S.V.P. - Saturdays - Parliament Square

Australia: Ad campaign aims to attract all voters

27-05-2007 05:02 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Terror War | World

The message from the $0 cent campaign will also be reinforced through a campaign in 1,700 social justice centres, as part of Boycott the Vote week and pass it on.