World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

U.S. Disinformation War Continues

01-07-2005 05:51 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

"It is difficult to fathom that this individual, working under the auspices of the U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela, will not be promoting a pro-US agenda. As evidenced in recently declassified documents from the FBI regarding the Luis Posada Carriles case, it was the FBI officer in Venezuela that maintained contact with Posada Carriles during his years in Venezuela apparently as the liaison between the Cuban terrorist and the U.S. intelligence community."

Downing Street Memo Protest in Washington DC

30-06-2005 13:07 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | London | World

Activists protest one of America's leading newspapers for failure to cover the Downing Street Memos

PRESS REVIEW

WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT …
… Zimbabwean Asylum Seekers

NEW EARTH FIRST! ACTION UPDATE: Out now!

A new version of the EF!AU can be viewed and printed out (!) to be distributed. See now at www.earthfirst.org.uk

Countryside Properties- Spodden Valley regeneration- CWU asbestos concerns...

29-06-2005 22:24 | Ecology | Health | Social Struggles | World

The Save Spodden Valley campaign welcomes the fact that a national organisation the size of the CWU with 300,000 members, is taking the issue of asbestos contamination so seriously. Asbestos is a killer as former postal and telecoms workers know far too well.

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Is the bottom falling out of Biotech corps???

29-06-2005 15:07 | Bio-technology | Health | Social Struggles | World

Is the market falling out of love with the biotech corps or vice versa?

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The Crusade against legal liars in Scotland

29-06-2005 02:36 | Analysis | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

The struggle of ordinary people against the litany of deceit within the legal profession in Scotland has ruined many a person and made many legal firms and lawyers rich - who have the protection of their own lobby groups, their friends within the financial industry (many famous UK Banks and Insurers) ...

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G8 - Our Agenda - Our World Working For All Of Us

““You can take a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink”
BUT ………. You can sprinkle salt in its food.
If we go to Edinburgh with hatred, negativity and blame in our hearts and minds, we will be part of the problem, not the solution, the result will be more of the same if not worse

Spodden Valley: regeneration concerns ...

27-06-2005 23:16 | Ecology | Health | Social Struggles | World

GOVERNMENT TESTS PROVE FACTORY RUBBLE CONTAINS DEADLY ASBESTOS TRACES

-URGENT DEBATE CALLED FOR UK PARLIAMENT TODAY.

Rethink policy of deporting failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers

27-06-2005 22:11 | Migration | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Officials in the Zimbabwe government have publicly said Britain is training spies, mercenaries and agents to destabilise the country and is sending them into Zimbabwe under the guise of returning failed asylum seekers.

On arrival the deportees are invariably met by Mugabe’s secret police, detained, tortured and interrogated. Some of the deportees have not been heard of since. Their families, both in Zimbabwe and in Britain, report that the last they heard of them was that they had been picked up by the secret police.

AmnestyI- Iran- Urgent help for man sentenced to having eyes gouged out!

27-06-2005 16:16 | Health | Social Struggles | South Coast | World

Please send appeals to stop this barbaric sentence being varried out in Iran

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The 'Jesuits of Capitalism'

27-06-2005 15:57 | Culture | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Blair's apparent fave consultancy firm McKinsey.

Debt

Less developed countries' external "debt" impedes their economic development and attempts to reduce poverty. But it generates huge revenues for rich countries. In the decade 1994 to 2004, Brazil paid rich country creditors US$400 billion just in interest, equivalent to the entire population of Brazil working a whole year.(1) "Debt" serves various seamlessly linked purposes, all to the advantage of rich country creditors.

NO EXTRADITION OF CANADIAN INDIGENOUS PERSON TO USA

Canadian Indigenous person John Graham is going to be extradited to the USA to a country with the death penalty for a crime he did not commit.The FBI are accusing him of a murder that occured in 1976.

Photos of G8 info point and Jack Kane centre.

Here are some photos of the G8 info point in Edinburgh.

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M.Howard on new EU Conv against People Trafficking

26-06-2005 10:54 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Tory leader M.Howard replies to constituents enq over view on EU Convention Against Trafficking in Human Beings.

Ministers plan to sell your ID card details to raise cash

Personal details of all 44 million adults living in Britain could be sold to private companies as part of government attempts to arrest spiralling costs for the new national identity card scheme, set to get the go-ahead this week.

What's so Revolutionary about Venezuelan Coal???

25-06-2005 23:37 | Ecology | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

* This article is about expanding coal mining consessions in Venezuela`s western state of Zulia. It explains the threats coal mining poses to indigenous communities and water security for Maracaibo, Zulia`s state capital. The article also explains how this initiative is part of a larger regional development plan, IIRSA, and other proposed projects that fall into Zuila`s regional development. The article is also about the grassroots resistence movement against the proposed projects.

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Cambridge Forum on Palestine

22-06-2005 09:55 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | Cambridge | World

Tomorrow, Tuesday June 21st, there are two speakers for Cambridge Forum - Peter Green, who has recently been to Palestine as part of a fact-finding mission, and Charlie Pottins from the Jewish Socialist Group.

Free Etienne Ndikuyiro - Act now for press freedom in Burundi

Burundian journalists are mobilising to secure the release of Etienne Ndikuyiro, who has been detained without charge after writing an article claiming that Burundi's President Ndayizeye was depressed after losing last week's communal elections.