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Organized Rage looks at life from the perspective of the working classes and the dispossessed. It covers politics and life throughout the European Union and the wider world; and rages against injustice wherever it may be found. Organized Rage attempt
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Governments and dodgy science.
A vintage year; expect more in 2010.By Ben Goldacre.It has been a vintage year for dodgy science in government. We saw reports on cocaine that were disappeared, dodgy evidence to justify DNA retention, and government advisers who estimated the cost o...
\'No2EU, Yes to Democracy\' candidate in the 2009 MEP election challenges Organized Rage\'s assessment of the electoral alliance
Below is an article by Pete McLaren, who stood as a 'No2EU, Yes to Democracy' candidate in the 2009 MEP election. Pete takes issue with the article I posted yesterday and raises some interesting points and castigates me for failing to mention t...
With its anti EU stance, No2EU allowed itself to become the willing tools of some of the most reactionary political forces in the UK.
When Pierre Lellouche, the Minister for Europe in the French government, recently said the position of the Tory Party led by David Cameron on the European Union is pathetic and displays a bizarre form of Autism. My first thought was he could be descr...
2009 Irish Referendum: Reject the Lisbon Treaty; No taxation without representation!
There might just have been an argument to support the Lisbon Treaty (LT) in the 2008 Irish referendum, although I do not see it myself, but it is impossible to make a valid case to vote in favor of the LT in the forthcoming October 2009 referendum,...
The Left and the Greens must concentrate on building electoral alliances which help gain access to the parliamentary chambers.
Before the EU ballot, I received a number of emails which claimed I was mistaken in my belief that when members of the No2EU campaign decide to put the Alliance on sounder footings, they should not attempt to tick all the politically correct sociali...
Why I have just voted Green in the European Elections.
Being eligibly for a postal vote, I have just cast my vote in the European Elections, Labour was out for me, whilst undoubtedly it still has a minority of fine socialists within it, including one of the candidates in my region, at the top it is rotte...
Elizabeth Filkin and the Nolan Inquiry: The elephant missing in the current debate about Parliamentary sleaze.
Anyone who is naive enough to believe Gordon Brown and David Cameron are genuine in their commitment to put an end to the sleaze at Westminster, by setting up an independent body to oversee the workings of parliament, should ask themselves why the n...
PUBLIC SECTOR ALTERNATIVE COULD SAVE £3.5bn and DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE COUNCIL SERVICES
Later today, Red Pepper editor Hilary Wainwright's is to launch a report that looks at the successful trade union and public service workers' led reforms that have been implemented within Newcastle City Council. The report entitled “Public Servic...
