Bloody Sunday: the untold story

From Gerry Adams’ blog Leargas This weekend I was in Derry. Sinn Féin held the latest of our very successful Uniting Ireland conferences which drew a capacity crowd in the Millennium Forum. Derry is a beautiful city, full of history and culture and art. And the people are great. But for many people, particularly in [...]

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Public meeting: Where now for Egypt and the Middle East?

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Another poll gives Livingstone the lead in London

This from LBC, a London talk radio station, giving credence to last week’s YouGov poll: An LBC 97.3 poll of Londoners voting intentions suggests Ken Livingstone is now favourite to win the mayoral election The Labour candidate has 51% of the vote to Boris Johnson’ 49% after second preference votes are allocated. Mr Livingstone continues [...]

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Another private sector collapse

Total employment rose in the 2000’s by 1.5 million, 1.1 million in the private sector, and 400,000 in the public. The collapse of the private sector from July 2008 destroyed half of all the jobs created from 2000 to 2007. At Left Foot Forward, Cormac Hollingsworth gets to grips with the fallacy of a private [...]

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“Now is the time to oppose Israel’s racism”

Palestine Solidarity Campaign leader Hugh Lanning exposes Israel’s increasingly racist legislation in today’s Morning Star. Last Wednesday Israel’s Supreme Court upheld a racist law which has been in operation since 2003. It denies spouses of Israeli citizens any right themselves to citizenship or residency if they happen to be a Palestinian from the West Bank [...]

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Securing the Arab revolutions

An interesting discussion between Mehdi Hasan and Wadah Khanfar on the Arab revolution and its prospects.

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Happy Birthday Muhammad Ali

Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another [...]

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Len McCluskey speaks out on the ‘Blairite policy coup’

Excellent assessment of the Labour party lurch toward full blown endorsement of austerity by Len McCluskey: Ed Balls’s sudden embrace of austerity and the public-sector pay squeeze represents a victory for discredited Blairism at the expense of the party’s core supporters. It also challenges the whole course Ed Miliband has set for the party, and [...]

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Caroline Lucas: we need to challenge the austerity agenda

Caroline Lucas MP makes the point well in today’s Guardian letters page that the opposition needs to overcome it’s fear of a fight with proponents of austerity and make the case for public investment as a means of economic recovery. In his interview with your paper on Saturday, Ed Balls effectively holds up a white [...]

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Picket at US Embassy: No western intervention in Iran or Syria

From the Stop the War Coalition. As imperialists go all out to drum up support in the West for military intervention in Syria and Iran it is vital that the anti-war position is loudly articulated. Many on the left have sadly found themselves in a position of de facto support for the imperialist plan to [...]

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