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Prometheus and the Burnt Child

21-03-2005 16:43 | Anti-militarism | World

One's own violence is repressed from consciousness as legitimate counter-force against unjust power since aggression is only seen in the powerful enemy.. Denial, repression and concealment of aggression through justification brutalizes.

Scottish Taxpayers Subsidising Prison Slavery

21-03-2005 15:15 | Repression | World

Just like the Prison Service in England and Wales, the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), are not only pimping out prison slave labour to greedy private companies, they are actually, also like the Prison Service in England and Wales, subsidising their profits.

Iraq demo: Anti-Islamist protest

20-03-2005 11:54 | Anti-militarism | Gender | Social Struggles | World

OutRage! backed the call for “Britain and the US to set a timetable for the withdrawal of troops,” but it opposed calls for “Troops Out Now”; warning that “a hasty withdrawal could pave the way for the seizure of power by Saddam loyalists or Islamic fundamentalists.”

Saturdays Summer Weather Cause For Concern

20-03-2005 11:40 | Ecology | World

While people have been enjoying the freak summer weather this weekend, scientists have been warning that the ozone layer is are at amoung the thinest sofar and that UV levels will be conrispondingly high. Record cold tempatures during the artic winter have resulted in an increase of the chemical reaction that destroys ozone during the spring as the sun comes closer to the earth. So, enjoy the early spring/summer but remember to cover up and keep up the pressure to curb consumption and climate change.

USA ban right person - shocker!

20-03-2005 11:32 | Analysis | World

In a move that has suprised many, US authorities have banned Narendra Modi,, who headed the government of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Gujarat when hindu extremists rioted and killed 2,500 muslims. After pressure from civil rights groups, Modi was refused entry by the United States which cited violation of religious freedom as the reason. However he will now address two meetings of expatriate Hindus via satellite this Sunday...

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Iraq protest report.

20-03-2005 01:56 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | World

An eyewitness account of today's antiwar demonstration in London, followed by a brief restaurant review, then a synopsis and diagnosis.

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Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army IN GLASGOW next WEEKEND

20-03-2005 01:48 | G8 2005 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

TASTER REBEL CLOWN TRAINING AND G8 WAR ROOM OPENING NEXT WEEKEND IN GLASGOW

50,000 - 80,000 march to bring troops home

19-03-2005 23:22 | Anti-militarism | World

It was the usual numbers game, organisers hyping the figure to 200,000 while the police play the figure down to 20,000. The media then talk about the different claims instead of the issues... just like me!

America's Preventive War as Ultimate Risk

19-03-2005 16:48 | Anti-militarism | World

Never before has a demcoratic state threatened so openly to repudiate the basic norm of all law, the prohibition of violence.. Apart from self-defense, no war is legal if the Security Council has not approved.. The American government does not feel bound to the norms of law and political ethics

Fuck America

19-03-2005 05:45 | Repression | World

Can you believe the arrogance of such lame dicks when they are hiding behind big guns, one on one, a bitch slap and he'd look like he got attacked by a pretzel!

Nestor Makhno: Anarchy's Cossack

18-03-2005 20:07 | Analysis | Culture | Social Struggles | World

Nestor Makhno: Anarchy's Cossack by Alexandre Skirda is now out. Never heard of him? Been conned by Leninists into thinking was was a bandit without the sense to tie his own shoelaces? Either way, you will find this an interesting read.

Offensive and Defensive Aggression: Herbert Marcuse

18-03-2005 15:49 | Anti-militarism | World

In this 1970 interview in the midst of the Vietnam aggression, Marcuse insists that affirmation of life is the distinction between offensive and defensive aggression. The physician cutting off a leg and a pilot ordering passengers are examples of defensive aggression.

M.Howard of the Arms Trade.

18-03-2005 14:05 | Anti-militarism | South Coast | World

Reply from Tory leader M.Howard to constituent's letter re Amnesty Intl Control Arms campaign (and the Intl Arms Trade Treaty etc).

Open Letter to STWC from Political Association of Iranian Refugees

Iranian refugee group criticises STWC for refusing to give platform to voices equally critical of US imperialism and the stutus quo in Iran.

Organisers respond to inaccuracies in 'Colombian Vice President Receives...'

18-03-2005 01:28 | Analysis | Indymedia | Repression | World

As President of the BUIAS, I would like to set the record straight on several inaccurate comments in the article 'Colombian Vice President receives a Bristol welcome'

Guatemala massacres in the 1980s: My soul will not die!

18-03-2005 01:13 | Education | Globalisation | Repression | World

Guatemala has seen over 36 years of military dictatorship, initiated and supported by the US with technical advisors, equipment and funding, and 250 000 civilians, particularly children and women, were massacred by the paramilitaries during the civil war. Thousands of clandestine mass graves are still all over the country.
1996 the peace accords were signed, before only the armed struggle was an alternative to oppose the military dictatorship.

Today atrocities are still not talked about, the paramilitary forces and the intellectual authors of massacres not convicted nor do they stand in court, and many mass graves have not yet been exhuminated.

Jesus Tecu Osorio is one of the few human rights activists in Guatemala who has been able to give evidence against and the only one to thereby convict three paramilitary perpetrators of some of their crimes - linking them directly to at least one of the five massacres occuring to his community during 1981 and 1982.
He spoke at an event hosted by Amnesty International in Edinburgh, on Thursday, 17th of march 2005.