UK History Newswire Archive
2007 Ulley reservoir danger could have led to a "breakdown in social cohesion"
30-06-2008 19:22
Interesting article in the Independent today, "MI5: revealing areas at mercy of collapsing dams is a terror threat"
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/mi5-revealing-areas-at-mercy-of-collapsing-dams-is-a-terror-threat-854325.html Some extracts follow, basically if the damn had burst last year Sheffield would have had no electricity for "an indefinite period" and also the "main 42-inch gas main serving Sheffield" would have been taken out.
'Salute to Israel' march in London and counter-demonstrations
29-06-2008 20:18
Also included are images of the Palestinian / Student counter demonstrations.
Simian Reason & Great Apes
27-06-2008 20:23
This week the Catalan eco-socialist deputy to the Spanish parliament, Joan Herrera saw his bill to commit the Spanish state to the "Declaration on Great Apes" become law. The greater simians comprising chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans are now to enjoy 3 rights - that of life, Protection of individual liberty & Prohibition of torture.I argue that this long campaigned for victory belongs not only to animal rights campaigners but to all those who are committed to secular and humanist society.
Famine killed 7 million people in USA
26-06-2008 02:26
Another online scandal has been gathering pace recently. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, deleted an article by a Russian researcher, who wrote about the USA’s losses in the Great Depression of 1932-1933.
Radical History Discussion - Resistance in the UK's Detention Centres in the La
20-06-2008 15:49
Radical History DiscussionResistance in the UK's Detention Centres in the Last Decade
Time: 7 pm, Tuesday 24 June 2008
Venue: T&G, Transport House, 128 Theobald's Road, London WC1X 8TN
How to train death squads and quash revolutions from San Salvador to Iraq
18-06-2008 22:03
How to covertly train paramilitaries, censor the press, ban unions, employ terrorists, conduct warrantless searches, suspend habeas corpus, conceal breaches of the Geneva Convention and make the population love it.
London Free Film show: Doc on Revolutionary black unions in Detroit 1970's
17-06-2008 17:14
Free Film show: FINALLY GOT THE NEWS - Revolutionary black unions in Detroit, 1970sSaturday 28th JUNE, 8pm Pullens Centre, 184 Crampton St, London SE17
Followed by discussion and chat. With speaker Brian Ashton, an ex-car industry shop steward.
Hosted by 56a Infoshop and Mute Magazine
Atenco Political Prisoners
17-06-2008 15:42
On 3 and 4 of May, 2006, more than 2,500 state and federal Mexican police arrived at the small town of San Salvador Atenco, Mexico State, to repress members of a social movement (People´s Front in Defence of Land, FPDT) protesting in support of local flower sellers who had been displaced from their traditional place of work because the government was planning to build there a Wall Mart.9/11, Deep State Violence, and the Hope of Internet Politics
13-06-2008 15:28
The Deep State and 9/11
The unthinkable — that elements inside the state would conspire with criminals to kill innocent civilians — has become not only thinkable but commonplace in the last century. A seminal example was in French Algeria, where dissident elements of the French armed forces, resisting General de Gaulle's plans for Algerian independence, organized as the Secret Army Organization and bombed civilians indiscriminately, with targets including hospitals and schools. [1] Critics like Alexander Litvinenko, who was subsequently murdered in London in November 2006, have charged that the 1999 bombings of apartment buildings around Moscow, attributed to Chechen separatists, were in fact the work of the Russian secret service (FSB). [2]
Bowl Court Social Centre Days Are Numbered
12-06-2008 16:18
Why is there so much Violence in Colombia?
11-06-2008 23:44
…nearly 4 million displaced…more than 2000 trade unionists killed in the last two decades…40,000 citizens killed overall since 1998…more than 15,000 disappeared…Battlelines drawn in city squat eviction
03-06-2008 22:24
squaring up for battle. On 4th June at Gee Street Magistrates Court,
property giant Hammerson will seek a possession order on a Victorian
warehouse that has been left empty and open to the elements since
attempts to gain consent to demolish the building failed.
Provocations as Pretexts for Imperial War: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11
31-05-2008 07:06
Fallout from McClellan book: The Iraq war’s “complicit enablers,” then and now
30-05-2008 13:19
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s new book indicting the Bush administration for employing a “political propaganda campaign” and deception to drag the US into an “unnecessary war” in Iraq has unleashed a wave of bitter recriminations from the Republican right, while prompting opportunist attempts by Democrats to exploit the tell-all memoir for their own political purposes.Leak from experts at Fort Detrick on the anthrax used in 2001 attacks
30-05-2008 12:33
Even experts at the U.S. bioweapons facility at Fort Detrick think that the anthrax which was used in the 2001 attacks came from their facility.Rome mayor set to name street after fascist
28-05-2008 17:52
Some Thoughts on Utah Phillips
25-05-2008 14:42
Utah Phillips just died, reported on Bay Area Indymedia. David Rovics response is worth a reading.Burying Lenin, Putin, Yeltsin, Stalin etc. - a Q&A
21-05-2008 21:01
Watchers of and Lurkers on Russian newswires will have been chortled to learn that newly appointed Prime Minister of Russia, V. Putin has ordered the building of a mausoleum on the scale of Arlington in Virginia USA for fallen military heroes and future (or past heads of state).on the 28th of August, 2005 Georgi Poltavchenko delegate to the central federal district of Russia suggested burying Lenin. That meant putting him in a box, sticking it under ground, and hopefully forgetting about all the mausoleum stuff. Yeltsin had suggested the same thing in July 1999.
As you'd expect the Polotacvhenko suggestion (thought to be supported by Mr Putin) provoked a lot of public debate amongst Russians, former Soviet citizens and naturally the fans, non-fans, and "I never was a fan" types of leninism / centralised state socialism / sovietic tyranny - the world over.
I thought to offer readership a quick “Q&A” on the new Putin Mausoleum scheduled for completion in 2012 in which he and 29 other Russian heads of state will enjoy a burial next to 30,000 other normal citizens in Moscow where the average grave costs 150,000.
For the purpose of clarity I present these “Q&A” in order of difficulty; for those who don’t know who Lenin is to those who don’t know what Arlington is.
Palestinian al-Nakbah at 60: the case of unrecognized villages
16-05-2008 17:07
