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Crass role by Crossrail-hole-backer Tower Hamlets Council, again!

05-01-2008 10:51

On 18 December 2007, one of the employerdf publcity staff in the Tower Hamkets Coucnil issued a 'good news for Crossrail' e-mail to the local paper. The hedaing was misleading. The truth of the matter is that they wanted to fend off the latst camapgn progamme announed by Khoodeelaar! whioch is goin to petoton the Hosue of Lords later this month [8 january 2008 and onweards] against the Crossrail Bill.

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The Asylum Crisis

04-01-2008 22:35

The Flipside of the Globalisation Coin

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The Defence of Europe

04-01-2008 22:04

Why NATO and all US forces must be expelled from Europe

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Pssst - International Sick-Out Day: July 24, 2008. Pass it on!

04-01-2008 21:04

National Sick-out day in America is scheduled for 24th July 2008

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London Rising Tide activists 'die' in the Tate Britain (4 January 2008)

04-01-2008 17:55

LRT
Activists from London Rising Tide staged a 'die-in' in the BP sponsored Tate Britain this afternoon.

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Is Gordon Brown ready for a big Peter Hain scandal?

04-01-2008 12:41

Is Gordon Brown ready for a big Peter Hain scandal?

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Big Pharma spends more on marketing than R&D

04-01-2008 10:36

The pharmaceutical industry has long attempted to justify the unaffordablility of medicines by the high costs of research & development. Recently in PLos Medicine Canadian academics Marc-André Gagnon and Joel Lexchin have cast yet further doubt on this fib by demonstrating big pharma spends more on promotion of its products to physicians than R&D in the USA.

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The Cart in the Speculative Mud

03-01-2008 19:47

Liberalizing markets leads to instability, not growth. Developing countries suffer grievously through US speculation. The New Year is a time to abandon American exceptionalism and corporate beneficence and welcome justice and alternative economics, mending our own pockets and footprints instead of scapegoating.

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CIA Drug Plane Scandal Heating Up

03-01-2008 14:24

The scandal surrounding two CIA-connected drug planes which flew from St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport to South America before being busted in Mexico on the way back with multi-ton loads of cocaine grew more serious last week..

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Exclusion of Paul or Kucinich from "Des Moines Register" debates : Democracy ?

03-01-2008 12:03

"A "Letter from London" - to America. RE IOWA"
The free thought, integrity or passion that are often found "outside" the ( media-accepted ) mainstream are often the most crucial for that societies future, the existence of its ACTUAL democracy, its ideas about itself. . . . but this also affects the entire world, here in "typically" rainy grey london too.
From each of the two main parties, popular with their ACTUAL campaigners, you mightnt agree with the "isolationism" of Paul, or like Kucinich's exact position on the WTO, but. . . .

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Call For Solidarity With Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint Denis Strikers

03-01-2008 10:11

For seven weeks, a massive movement has been growing within the French
University system, uniting professors, students and staff in a struggle
against Sarkozy's new university reform law, the law concerning the
"Liberties and Responsabilities of the Universities" (LRU).

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wmv film of xmas slackers karaoke

02-01-2008 14:00

Video slackers choir in carnaby street
here is the wmv file of the slackers xmas karaoke

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xmas karaoke with slackers anarchist choir

02-01-2008 13:39

Video the slackers choir in carnaby street
just before xmas the south london anarchist choir (slackers) took to the streets and shops of the west end to perform their anti-capitalist christmas carols. sing-along with this karaoke rendition of their wonderful performances

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Japanese Government to Keep ‘Hooligans’ Away from Summit

02-01-2008 08:28

An article reposted from the mainstream media about immigration regulation for G8 in Japan 2008

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Part III: The Politics of Bridge-Making

02-01-2008 01:01

III. Encounter: The Politics of Bridge-Making
Feliz Año Cabrones: On the Continued Centrality of the Zapatista Movement after 14 Years
(written by El Kilombo;  http://www.elkilombo.org)

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Part II. A Society to Create

02-01-2008 01:00

Feliz Año Cabrones: On the Continued Centrality of the Zapatista Movement after 14 Years.
(written by El Kilombo;  http://www.elkilombo.org)

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Part I. On the Continued Centrality of the Zapatista Movement

02-01-2008 00:55

Feliz Año Cabrones: On the Continued Centrality
of the Zapatista Movement after 14 Years
(written by El Kilombo;  http://www.elkilombo.org)

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Columbia's Plan: Biotech Hazard on the Hudson - Somers Town build it !

01-01-2008 23:55

Columbia's Plan: Biotech Hazard on the Hudson
 http://www.stopcolumbia.org/content/view/42/58/lang,en/

Here is an article showing many similarities with the approved London Bio Tech Lab in Somers Town, London. The "difference" is just the name .

Columbia vs Wellcome Trust

Both of them got the Rockfeller Foundation behind...
 http://www.rockfound.org/

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Obscurity and confinement for migrants in Europe

31-12-2007 13:17

There are now 224 detention camps scattered across the European Union; altogether they can house more than 30,000 people - asylum-seekers and 'illegal' immigrants awaiting deportation - who are often held in administrative detention for as long as 18 months. In a number of EU countries, there is no limit on detention length.





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open letter to Fabio Mussi, the new Italian communist of the banana party

30-12-2007 20:28

Fabio Mussi, Minister of University and Research and leader of the Sinistra Democratica party in Italy has proposed in the Decreto Milleproroghe a reform of Italian universities and research. This is an open letter to Ministro Mussi which questions the likely detrimental consequences of such a reform based on the neoliberal British HE system. In particular the letter challenges the harm to academic freedom and research suggested by a system that encourages competitiveness and looks after capital interests. Vergogna!