6 December 2007

The socialist review: 'Taking Liberties'

PAPER MASKS, scissors and some toy soldiers. These are the offensive items found by 100 police officers, after holding three busloads of anti-war protesters... By Michael Wrack, Hackney Socialist Party

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1 November 2007

The socialist interview

Neil Cafferky spoke to Sadiq Abakar, an asylum seeker from Darfur, after a Save Sadiq protest against his deportation outside the UK Home Office.

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2 June 2007

Repression of Gay Pride in Moscow

Once again the world's media has been focused on the horrific breaking up of an attempted protest in Moscow....

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26 April 2007

Socialist wins court battle in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: LAST WEEK the Alma-Ata city Procurer (legal prosecutor), Kazakhstan, demanded the arrest and imprisonment, for 15 days, of Ainur Kurmanov, a well-known CWI member and opposition socialist activist in Kazakhstan...

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12 April 2007

Blair silent on Guantanamo

THE CAPTURE and subsequent release by Iran of 15 British sailors has largely obscured news of the release of a British resident from the US's military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...

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4 April 2007

Days of Glory

International Human Rights film festival: THIS OSCAR-nominated World War Two drama follows the journey of North African (Indigénes) soldiers fighting their way through southern Europe helping to liberate France, their 'mother country'...

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30 March 2007

Sacked electricians win tribunal ruling

TONY JONES, TGWU health and safety rep and fellow workers Steve Acheson and Graham Bowker, sacked from the Manchester Royal Infirmary site, have won their tribunal cases...

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22 October 2006

Journalist's murder reveals brutality of Putin regime

THE GUNNING down of Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia's better-known journalists and human rights activist, has brought to the world's attention the volcano of instability in the republics which comprise the Caucasus region...

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27 April 2006

No more tears sister

This is a film about Rajani Thiranagama, a Sri Lankan university lecturer and human rights activist. She was murdered in Jaffna at the height of the Indian Peace Keeping Force's (IPKF) involvement in the war with the Liberation.

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10 November 2005

United Nations: 60 Years of Failure

HIT BY corruption scandals and accused of failing to prevent genocidal wars, the United Nations (UN) has little to celebrate on its 60th anniversary...

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