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Economic Slash and Burn: Greece’s Deadly Austerity Measures

07-05-2010 17:39

"As the bloody drama was unfolding outside the Greek Parliament, various hands signed the papers that cut pensions and initiated tax hikes on fuel, cigarettes and alcohol. Civil service entitlements have been cut and pensions in the public sector frozen. The cuts are meant to trim a ballooning debt and save about $US45 billion over three years. But they have propelled the worst riots in years. And that, given the famous Greek record on street protest, is saying something. Not since 1991, where five people died in riots directed against the education bill, has Greece seen this."

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Trilateral Commission AGM in Ireland

06-05-2010 19:49

Trilateral Commission AGM in Dublin from 7 - 9th May 2010

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anarchists in greece can save us all! Or at least the way...

06-05-2010 18:46

from the rubble will come a new option, freedom
in an effort to stop people trolling my article down the newswire, (why anyone would want to i know not) i've republished with a new title. it's on the newswire as 'a way forward' and is a piece i knocked up to start some thinking and discussing about current issues amongst the 'movement'...

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A Way Forward

06-05-2010 14:55

With recent events around the globe signalling yet another kick in the gonads for capitalism (ash clouds, angry greek youths and activists, including dead workers, new york bomb attempt and millions of people marching for mayday), I felt compelled to knock up a little article for the 'movements' apetite for conversation and debate about 'where the fuck is the revolution?'

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Day by Day - The Story of a 13 year old Afghan boy's journey to Calais

06-05-2010 12:26

Audio
This is a typical story of a migrants journey from Afghanistan to Calais

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An employee of the burnt bank speaks out on tonight’s tragic deaths in Athens

05-05-2010 20:20

Tonight’s tragic deaths in Athens leave little space for comments – we are all very shocked and deeply saddened by the events. To those (on the “Occupied London” blog even) who speculate that the deaths might have been caused purposefully by anarchists, we can only reply the following: we do not take to the streets, we do not risk our freedom and our lives confronting the greek police in order to kill other people. Anarchists are not murderers, and no brainwashing attempted by Greek PM Papandreou, the national or the international media should convince anyone otherwise.

That being said, and with developments still running frantically, we want to publish a rough translation of a statement by an employee of Marfin Bank – the bank whose branch was set alight in Athens today, where the three employees found a tragic death.

Read the letter, translate it, spread it around to your networks; grassroots counter-information has a crucial role to play at a moment when the greek state and corporate media are leashing out on the anarchist movement over here in Greece.

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Democracy Village, Parliament Square, London - Pictures.

05-05-2010 12:11

A Very Weak Government.
As the British General Election of 2010 draws to an end and the people prepare to vote, and after nine years of a now financially ruinous war, Parliament Square swells with a new Democracy Village formed to bring UK involvement in the war in Afghanistan to an end.

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Calais today

04-05-2010 16:48

Contrary to the French Immigration minister Besson's claims that there are hardly any migrants left in Calais now there are approximately 400, surviving in desperate conditions.

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US targeting Iranian nuclear program (by Latuff)

04-05-2010 03:11

US targeting Iranian nuclear program.
Cartoon for Iranian newspaper Jame Jam.

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Iran and the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) conference

03-05-2010 20:43

President Ahmadinejad speaking at the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference
This year's Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference - as with previous years' - promises to be yet another battle between the developing and the nuclear-armed nations. The US insists that the Non-Proliferation Treaty needs to be rewritten so as to place greater limits on what it calls "nuclear weapons proliferation" whilst the developing nations say that the concern over proliferation is being used as a pretext by the US to avoid its own obligations under the same treaty to disarm its own nukes and to share nuclear technology with everyone else.

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South Africa:

03-05-2010 11:50

The sight of people, mostly women or children, walking kilometres over dusty roads to haul wood back to their homes for cooking, heat and light is not uncommon in South Africa’s rural areas. Likewise, every winter, fires rampage through the thousands of shanty towns that dot the urban landscape because people are forced to use dangerous sources of energy like coal and paraffin.

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Mayday in Parliament Square, Peace Camp, London. - Pictures

02-05-2010 12:04

The Red Horse.
As the British General Election enters its last week before the people go to the polls to elect a new Government, the Parliament Square Peace Camp swells with supporters and campaigners on the traditional workers day of Mayday.

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Images of Parliament Sq Demo

02-05-2010 12:01

Fair Wages for Prisoners
May Day Demo at Parliament Sq London 1 May 2010.

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Greece: a radical turn in the situation is being prepared

29-04-2010 13:01

The downgrading of Greece’s credit ratings by Standard & Poor’s has sent shockwaves around the world’s financial markets, with stock exchanges seeing significant falls yesterday. The fear is that Greece could default and drag the rest of the eurozone into a severe crisis, putting immense pressure on the euro.

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the arrested MAZIOTIS _ ROUPA _ GOURNAS take responsibility for the E.A.

29-04-2010 09:48

MAZIOTIS
the arrested MAZIOTIS _ ROUPA _ GOURNAS take responsibility
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We take the political responsibility for participation in the Organization Revolutionary Strangle (E.A) . We declare that our comrade Lampros Foundas who fell dead in Daphne on March 10, 2010 after a battle with cops, also participated in the Organization Revolutionary Strangle. The battle has been for the realization of the revolutionary causes that collectively the Organization Revolutionary Strangle was decided. It was a struggle for revolution and freedom.

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Oaxaca: Paramilitaries Ambush International Aid Caravan, Two Dead

29-04-2010 00:28

San Juan Copala, Oaxaca - On Tuesday afternoon at about 2:50pm, people believed to be paramilitaries affiliated with the ruling party of Oaxaca ambushed an international aid caravan en route to San Juan Copala. At least two people are reported dead.

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Instruments of global domination:US spends billions on new global strike weapons

27-04-2010 12:36

US Global Command and Control System
The Obama administration is spending billions of dollars to develop new weapons systems, including powerful conventional warhead missiles capable of striking any target in the world within less than an hour.

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Free Shaker Aamer from Guantanamo Bay, London - Pictures.

25-04-2010 14:11

No injustice can last forever.
Campaigners gather outside Downing Street to bring attention to the case of Shaker Aamer, a detainee who is the last British citizen to remain in incarceration at the notorious US military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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Audio: What way out of the economic and ecological crises?

24-04-2010 20:48

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Attached are recordings from a meeting organised to discuss and debate the origins of the global economic and ecological crises, and progressive policies to address them, which was held in Sheffield on 24th April 2010 and was organised by the Sheffield Workers Educational Association (WEA).