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- December 23rd, 2009
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mickhall has posted a new entry on: Organized Rage
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mickhall has posted a new entry on: Organized Rage
Kurdish members of the recently banned DT Party, hope to forge alliance with Turkish left and found a new Left Party.
It was reported yesterday in the Turkish press the members of the mainly Kurdish, Democratic Society Party(DTP), which was recently banned by the Turkish judiciary, will form a new party i…
- December 22nd, 2009
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mickhall has posted a new entry on: Organized Rage
Hugo Chávez writes on `The battle of Copenhagen\'
Hugo Chávez writes on `The battle of Copenhagen'By Hugo Chávez Frías, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, translated by Kiraz Janicke for Links International…
- December 21st, 2009
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mickhall has posted a new entry on: Organized Rage
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…
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Global warming: Would you buy a used car from this bunch of snake oil sales assistants?
Whenever I post an article about Global Warming (G/W) and raise questions, more often than not, I end up being told I am up the creek with the G/W deniers and siding with reactionaries, only last week…
- December 19th, 2009
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mickhall has posted a new entry on: Organized Rage
Aminatou Haidar flies home; her hunger strike a success.
Western Sahara's best-known human rights activist has ended a 32-day hunger strike in Spain and returned home after Morocco reversed its expulsion order against her.Amina…
- December 16th, 2009
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mickhall has posted a new entry on: Organized Rage
Obituary: Anna Mendelssohn; Poet, and former political prisoner.
The last year has seen the death of two people who were imprisoned for being members of the Angry Brigade, both of who claimed they were victims of a miscarriage of justice. Earlier this year Jake Pre…
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The Global Warming Debate: Are we experiencing the age of stupid as far as the scientific community is concerned?
With those attending the Copenhagen global warming UN summit having used a rainforest worth of carbon emissions, before a single decision has been made public, makes one conclude that such a conf…
- December 14th, 2009
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mickhall has posted a new entry on: Organized Rage
Irish Green Party having laid down with dogs, have ended up with fleas.
Above is a video of Paul Gogarty a Green Party TD (MP) speaking last week in a Dáil Éireann (Irish parliament) debate on the Social Welfare bill, responding to a quip from Labour TD E…
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Obituary: Nina Fishman; Political activist, Historian, internationalist and campaigner for a \'Social Europe.\'
Nina Fishman obituary.By Donald Sassoon.Historian, political activist and outstanding character of the British left.With the death of the political historian and activist Nina Fishman, who has died of…
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Closure Of Kurdish Party proves Turkish democracy is still not fit for purpose.
On December 11, 2009 Turkey’s highest judicial body the Constitutional Court, banned the mainly Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) because of alleged links to the PKK, which is listed…
- December 11th, 2009
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mickhall has posted a new entry on: Organized Rage
Send a Christmas card to L/C Joe Glenton, awaiting court martial for refusing to again serve in Afghanistan.
LATEST NEWS: Joe was recently released from prison on very restrictive bail conditionsMessages of support can still be sent to: defendjoeglenton@gmail.comCourt hearing Wednesday 16 DecemberJoe ap…
- December 10th, 2009
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mickhall has posted a new entry on: Organized Rage
TARIQ ALI: On “Obama’s Afghan-Pak Syndrome"
Above is a talk the writer, broadcaster and political activists Tariq Ali gave to an audience of students and staff at the Hampshire College, Massachusetts, USA on Novemb…
- December 9th, 2009
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mickhall has posted a new entry on: Organized Rage
Morning Star kerfuffle over Trotsky biography.
A book review of Robert Services latest offering Trotsky: A Biography, which was recently published in the Morning Star has provoked a number of letters to the paper from its readers.Whilst it hardly…
- December 7th, 2009
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mickhall has posted a new entry on: Organized Rage
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mickhall has posted a new entry on: Organized Rage
Obituary: Hilda Baruch: Supporter of 1930\'s Spanish Republic, textile worker, teacher and grass roots activist..
Hilda Baruch, who has died aged 90, was one of those unsung female heroes of the left. She was a "peace baby", born Hilda Froom eight days after the end of the first world war. She grew up in a workin…
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BBC Question Time: A surreal moment which displayed the English class system in all it\'s hypocritical finery.
After a couple of enjoyable hours watching Lewis, a TV series about a detective which is set in Oxford, a city that epitomizes the wretchedness of the UK’s class divide, I switched over to the BBC…
- December 3rd, 2009
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mickhall has posted a new entry on: Organized Rage
Why our school is campaigning against the death penalty in the United States.
I came across the article below on the EagleEye community blog after it was recommended by a friend, I found it inspirational and I thought I would share it with the readers of Organized Rage. At…
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- December 2nd, 2009
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FYI: ClimateGate Who\'s Who in debate over emails.
For the counter argument see the links below. (Thanks to GW)http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/11/the-cru-hack/http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/11/the-cru-hack-contex…
- December 1st, 2009
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Obituary\'s: Pat Ripley and Eleanor Kasrils; Two women who fought to improve peoples lives.
Pat Ripley obituaryLeader of a six-week sit-in at Islington town hall aimed at winning better pay for home helps.Anthony Barnett In our street in Islington, north London, my neighbour Pat Ri…
- November 30th, 2009
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- November 29th, 2009
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mickhall has posted a new entry on: Organized Rage
When I recently visited my mother in Basildon & Thurrock Hospital Trust: I thought welcome to the 19th Century Mum.
The media has been full of stories about a damming report issued by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) into Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The CQC offic…
- November 27th, 2009
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Chavez Calls for new International Organisation of Left Parties.
Chavez Calls for International Organisation of Left PartiesBy Kiraz JanickeVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for the formation of a “Fifth International” of left parties and social movements…
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mickhall has posted a new entry on: Organized Rage
Obituary: Neil Kearney: A rare thing, an international trade union bureaucrat who actually improved peoples lives.
Neil Kearney, who has died of a heart attack aged 59, was an inspirational leader in the international trade union movement. As general secretary of the Brussels-based International Textile, Garment a…
- November 26th, 2009
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When I here the name Khmer Rouge, I get pangs of guilt.
Having been charged with crimes against humanity, the trial of Khmer Rouge [KR] militant Kaing Guek Eav (party nom de guerre ‘comrade’ D[e]uch) is currently taking place in Phnom Penh. A…
- November 25th, 2009
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The Chilcot Enquiry\'s aim is not an attempt to place public accountability for the Iraq fiasco, but to deny it entirely.
In the cartoon below 'Adams' points out the 'Chilcot Enquiry' into the Iraq war is one of many attempts by both the Labour government and Conservative opposition to pass the buck; and cover up and whi…
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- November 22nd, 2009
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The example of the PIRA\'s \'long war\' model, bodes ill for NATO\'s war in Afghanistan.
'Long war' model bodes ill for West.Gordon Brown and the opposition leader David Cameron have conceded that the British army in Afghanistan needs additional helicopters to ferry the front-line troops…
- November 20th, 2009
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mickhall has posted a new entry on: Organized Rage
\'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…
- November 19th, 2009
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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…
- November 17th, 2009
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SACP general secretary and ANC government minister Blade Nzimande gets a new car.
There was uproar over SACP general secretary and government minister Blade Nzimande's 1.2 million rand luxury BMW. Cartoon by Zapiro. For more Zapiro cartoons, please visit http://www.zapiro.com.
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The Chilcot Inquiry will whitewash all guilt from those who were responsible for the Iraq fiasco.
With the ‘Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war about to begin, it looks very much like after months of taking evidence from government mandarins, senior officers and government ministers, John Chilcot,…
- November 16th, 2009
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TV and Radio have been given a green light to insult and disparage working class people.
Once again we are living though a period when it is perfectly acceptable for the mass media to insult working class people, often for no better reason than ‘some’ of them live on Council Estates.…
- November 12th, 2009
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Hundreds of benefit claimants unjustly imprisoned.
Hundreds of claimants unjustly imprisonedMany hundreds of claimants are unjustly imprisoned every year because overpayment amounts are being ‘wildly exaggerated’ by the DWP, welfare benefits exper…
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It is time to get the illicit drugs debate rolling.
As regular readers of this blog will know, I am in favour of decriminalising almost all of what we regard today as illicit drugs. I understand this would be a complex thing to put into practice, never…
- November 11th, 2009
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mickhall has posted a new entry on: Organized Rage
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mickhall has posted a new entry on: Organized Rage
INLA renounce armed struggle and encourage its members to engage in politics alone..
Below is an article by Gerry Ruddy, a leading member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party, which sets out the reasoning behind the decision by the leadership of the INLA to stand their volunteers d…
- November 10th, 2009
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Obituary: Eleanor Kasrils; Freedom fighter, member of ANC and SACP.
Eleanor Kasrils, the ANC and CPSA activist, and wife of former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils, died on Sunday after suffering a stroke. She was 73. Ronnie Kasrils said Eleanor had suddenly…
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- November 9th, 2009
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mickhall has posted a new entry on: Organized Rage
The best way of supporting the young men and women who are currently serving in Afghanistan, is to demand the government brings them home. NOW!
Those who have touted the ‘red poppy’ over the last month, have more than had their day this year. Due to the UK's military involvement in the war on Afghanistan, the lead in to remembrance…
- November 5th, 2009
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mickhall has posted a new entry on: Organized Rage
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mickhall has posted a new entry on: Organized Rage
Obituary: Ernesto Leal Jimenez: Communist, trade unionist, seaman, tireless working class activist, and political exile.
Obituary: Ernesto Leal JimenezBy Roger Sutton.Ernesto Leal Jimenez was born to communist parents on January 11 1938. At that time they were on the run, persecuted by the government of Arturo Alessandr…
- November 4th, 2009
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The origins of the White Poppy worn on Armistice Day, later called Remembrance Day.
After I posted an article about the Red Poppy early this week, a number of people contacted me to ask about the White Poppy. Terry L directed me to the Peace Pledge Union's web site , whilst not…
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Feminism may not be about bettering men\'s lives, but there is no question it has improved them.
Like many working class men of my generation, I reached adulthood as a fully formed sexist bigot. Looking back my attitude to women was appalling, which was hardly surprising if one takes into account…
- November 3rd, 2009
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The Red Poppy signifies the yearly charade of concern for the UK’s war dead and wounded is upon us.
One again the yearly charade of concern for the UK’s war dead and wounded is upon us. Whether you wear one or not it is difficult to argue with the fact the ‘Red Poppy,’ and those like the Briti…
- November 2nd, 2009
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The Prohibition of illicit drugs is a foolish and non winnable war against comparatively harmless substances.
Otherwise intelligent people, on reaching high political office, often seem pre-programmed to abandon independent thought and end up behaving like imbeciles; others might be less generous and re…
- October 28th, 2009
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Obituary: Redmond O\'Neill: Trotskyist, administrator, agitator and anti imperialist.
Obituary: Redmond O'NeillBy Andrew Murray.The death of Redmond O'Neill last week deprives the socialist movement in Britain and internationally - and above all in London - of one of its most staunch a…
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A Blair EU Presidency would be a disaster: It would send out all the wrong signals.
Now the Irish electorate has voted in favor of the Lisbon Treaty, it seems it will be ratified soon, even though the southern Irish electorate are the only citizens of the EU to have had a say o…
