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Law suit against 4 US presidents and 4 UK prime ministers for war crimes

13-02-2010 16:08 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Social Struggles | World

On 6 October 2009, working with and on behalf of Iraqi plaintiffs, we filed a case before Spanish law against four US presidents and four UK prime ministers for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Iraq.

The case presented spanned 19 years, including not only the wholesale destruction of Iraq witnessed from 2003, but also the sanctions period during which 1.5 million excess Iraqi deaths were recorded.

Activist Sentenced to Two Years for A.L.F. Mink Liberation

13-02-2010 02:31 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | Social Struggles | World

Calling him a “terrorist” and following through on his threat to more than quadruple the recommended sentence, judge Dee Benson Thursday sentenced William Viehl to two years in federal prison. It is the first sentence handed down under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.

One cannot rule the World without keeping one's own nation under control

12-02-2010 17:40 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

One can't rule the world without keeping one's own nation under control, and this is an essential prerequisite for empire maintenance abroad.

Obama and Sarah Palin BOTH exalt the same military leadership that gives them both the OKay. They are two loyal representatives of wealthy and influential investors in war industry and the industry's laterally connected high military officials. Yet media conglomerates intend for the public to see them as two political stars in confrontation. They both go along with and play out this hoax, which cleaves the national constituency conveniently in two making it easier to manage.

The Bolivarian Revolution and the Caribbean

12-02-2010 16:58 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

"But we do not know what to do with the civilization attained. Human beings have equipped themselves with nuclear weapons of unbelievable accuracy and annihilation potency while, from the moral and political point of view, they have ignominiously retrogressed. Politically and socially, we are more underdeveloped than ever. Automatons are replacing soldiers; the mass media, educators, and governments are beginning to be overtaken by events without knowing what to do. In the desperation of many international political leaders one can appreciate an impotency in the face of the problems that are accumulating in their offices and steadily more frequent international meetings.  In those circumstances, an unprecedented disaster is taking place in Haiti, while on the other side of the planet, three wars and an arms race are continuing their development, in the midst of the economic crisis and growing conflicts, which is consuming more than 2.5% of the global GDP, a figure with which all the Third World countries could be developed in a short period of time and possibly evade climate change by devoting the economic and scientific resources that are essential to that objective."

The §278a Case Against Austrian Animal Rights Activists Enters the Next Round

12-02-2010 16:50 | Animal Liberation | Repression | Social Struggles | World

February 1, 2010: barely four weeks before the opening trial date in the §278a case, three more activists were charged with the same paragraph (278a) and are expected to stand with the rest of the defendants. The 13 defendants are accused of having formed a Criminal Organisation trying to force companies to get out of the fur trade. Ten of the defendants were previously held in pre-trial detention after a country-wide raid in Austria on May 21, 2008. The legal defence costs could reach over €500,000.

South Africans rise up against ANC

12-02-2010 16:22 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

ANGRY South Africans rioted this week in protest at the conditions in which they are forced to live.

Sanctuary for Mireille Mbimbo (Very urgent support needed)

12-02-2010 15:26 | Migration | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Mireille Mbimbo a national of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and a resident of Bradford, is currently being held at Penine House Manchester STHC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Monday 15th February @ 19.00 on Kenya Airways flight KQ101, from Manchester to Nairobi for onward transit on flight KQ550 to Kinshasa.

Descent Into Barbarism: The US and NATO Wage War on the World

11-02-2010 21:36 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

"The profit system has hit an historic dead-end and this gridlock is a result of deep trends to do with the decline in capitalism as a mode of social production (falling wages and profits and the concomitant explosion in financial speculation and debts).
Widespread poverty and human misery is now seen on a massive scale in the so-called developed world. Some 40 million Americans, for example, are subsisting on food stamps. The distinction between “developed” and “developing” economies (always a myth anyway) is blurred. The ranks of the world’s long-suffering poor are swelled with dispossessed blue and white-collar workers and their families from across the US and Europe. Together more than ever, they stand shut out from those gated havens of obscene wealth for a global minority."

Defend the Yarl's Wood Four

11-02-2010 10:09 | Migration | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

[Hunger Strike is still strong, 68 women refusing food as of yesterday]

Colored Revolutions: A New Form of Regime Change, Made in USA

10-02-2010 23:13 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Millions of dollars are being filtered from Washington to political parties, NGOs, student organizations and movements that promote US agenda worldwide.

Wherever a coup d'etat, a colored revolution or a regime change favorable to US interests occurs, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and its flow of dollars is there.

UKCMRI tonight displayed pic of Peter Pan and treated Camden with contempt.

Tonight's "last chance" formal public meeting & "consultation" at St Mary & St Pancras Primary School hosted by the UKCMRI saw Camden fuming & asking the UKCMRI not to patronise residents. Bizarrely a photo of Peter Pan was displayed while the speakers on stage studiously ignored "difficult" questions & residents. Safety, animal rights and community questions were dismissed & people ignored.

Editorial: Iranian Expatriates in America – The New 'House Negroes' ?

10-02-2010 22:41 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

While this editorial is addressing the Iranian Expats in the United States tickled by a 'freedom' event held in San Jose, California this past weekend, the substance of the editorial is pertinent to all Iranian Expats worldwide, especially those chanting "Azadi" for Iran while silently spectating the rapid construction of police-state in their adopted Western nation.

3rd international week of solidaridad with the Basque Country

10-02-2010 19:53 | Repression | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

London Basque Solidarity Campaign would like to invite you to the 3rd
International week of Solidarity with the Basque Country. With different events In the SOAS (13-02-10) and the Goldsmiths College (16-02-10).

Announcement-Information from YFANET Fabric Squat

10-02-2010 10:38 | Social Struggles | Terror War | World

Attack against YFANET Fabric. Information from the Assembly.

Self-Harm in UK Immigration detention

10-02-2010 09:25 | Migration | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

[Source for all data, 'Freedom of Information Act 2000']

Self-Harm in Immigration Detention January to December 2009

http://www.ncadc.org.uk/resources/self-harm2009.html

Self-Harm in Immigration Detention January to December 2008

http://www.ncadc.org.uk/resources/self-harm2008.html

Debra Bell’s Last Stand: Talking About Cannabis Play Final Hand

08-02-2010 22:12 | Culture | Social Struggles | World

It’s two years to the day that the void first published the seminal ‘Talking (bollocks) About Cannabis’ (1), highlighting the lies, half truths and shameless propanganda that lay behind Debra Bell’s anti-cannabis crusaders Talking About Cannabis (2).

Campaign to "Make the Pope Pay. No state funded visit to the UK"

Pope Benedict will be visiting the UK to the delight of the Nations's Catholics. However not all are impressed. A campaign has been launched to "Make The Pope Pay" as we have picked up from Vegan Miranda Pandaqueen's Twitter. They are saying that the taxpayer should not have to foot the bill for the Pope's visit including policing or security. They say the Pope and Catholic Church should pay.

Animal Protection Party UK have no links to Animal Protection Party Germany 1998

The Animal Protection Party Germany created in 1998 [beginnings 1993] was the first ever Animal Protection Party created out of concern for animals. Dr Gisell Bulla stood in Federal Elections in Germany 1998. The German Animal Protection Party have no links to the UK Animal Protection Party created in late 2006. The Animals Count Party in Holland were created in 2004 when Jasmin De Boo stood.

Indymedia Radio at COP15 - 16 December 2009 Reclaim Power live broadcast

Check out the live audio from the Reclaim Power COP15 day of action live radio broadcast...

84 + Women on Hunger Strike, behind the Wire @ Yarl's Wood IRC

08-02-2010 08:18 | Migration | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

"Detention results from political decisions that represent a "hardening attitude towards irregular migrants and asylum seekers" (*PACE)

End the Detention of Foreign Nationals Now!

World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Law suit against 4 US presidents and 4 UK prime ministers for war crimes

Activist Sentenced to Two Years for A.L.F. Mink Liberation

One cannot rule the World without keeping one's own nation under control

The Bolivarian Revolution and the Caribbean

The §278a Case Against Austrian Animal Rights Activists Enters the Next Round

South Africans rise up against ANC

Sanctuary for Mireille Mbimbo (Very urgent support needed)

Descent Into Barbarism: The US and NATO Wage War on the World

Defend the Yarl's Wood Four

Colored Revolutions: A New Form of Regime Change, Made in USA

UKCMRI tonight displayed pic of Peter Pan and treated Camden with contempt.

Editorial: Iranian Expatriates in America – The New 'House Negroes' ?

3rd international week of solidaridad with the Basque Country

Announcement-Information from YFANET Fabric Squat

Self-Harm in UK Immigration detention

Debra Bell’s Last Stand: Talking About Cannabis Play Final Hand

Campaign to "Make the Pope Pay. No state funded visit to the UK"

Animal Protection Party UK have no links to Animal Protection Party Germany 1998

Indymedia Radio at COP15 - 16 December 2009 Reclaim Power live broadcast

84 + Women on Hunger Strike, behind the Wire @ Yarl's Wood IRC

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