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Issue - 1964
Dated - 20 Aug 2005
Alistair Hulett: Scottish struggles created a rich tradition of radical song

August sees the launch of the Festival of Politics at the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh. As part of this broad event, billed as being an occasion where "politics meets the people", I will be taking part in a performance titled Them And Us — a workshop exploring Scotland’s radical song tradition and its continuing relevance.

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The Chartists: accused of treason, repressed with lies
Features

The Chartists: accused of treason, repressed with lies

Summarily deporting opponents, jailing people for what they are held to have said and raising the spectre of treason are not new.
20 August 2005
Banksy sees through Israel’s wall
News

Banksy sees through Israel’s wall

Guerrilla graffiti artist Banksy has recently branched out from his normal east London haunts and taken a trip to Palestine, where he applied his talents to the apartheid wall being built by Israel.
20 August 2005
The state, consent and ‘war of position’
Features

The state, consent and ‘war of position’

Common criticisms of Marxism are that it is a theory that argues everything is determined by economics and that it offers a crude explanation of ideology.
20 August 2005
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International

Cindy Sheehan shows Bush is now losing in Iraq and at home

For the past week Cindy Sheehan has camped outside George Bush’s ranch in Texas demanding the opportunity to ask him why her son Casey was sent to die in an illegal and immoral war.
20 August 2005
Media targets the Muslim mainstream
News

Media targets the Muslim mainstream

The witch-hunt against Muslims launched by New Labour is now turning on even the most "respectable" and establishment-oriented of Muslim organisations.
20 August 2005
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International

What’s behind the Gaza pullout?

To great international fanfare, Israel this week began its pull-out from the Gaza Strip.
20 August 2005
Detainees sent back to regimes that torture and kill
News

Detainees sent back to regimes that torture and kill

Civil rights campaigners have reacted with fury to the latest government plans to deport suspected "Muslim extremists" to countries that routinely practice torture and the death penalty.
20 August 2005
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Tom Hurndall murder verdict

An Israeli soldier was convicted of manslaugher last week for the killing of British peace activist Tom Hurndall in April 2003 in Rafah in the Gaza Strip. Taysir Hayb shot Tom in the head as he tried to help Palestinian children.
20 August 2005
Market driven cuts hit the NHS
News

Market driven cuts hit the NHS

Virtually unnoticed by the media and politicians, large swathes of the NHS are facing deadly cuts. Hospital beds are being scrapped, staff made redundant and potential recruits turned away.
20 August 2005
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International

Neo-liberalism is central to Japanese election

Hundreds of activists and rank and file trade unionists in front of the MPs' Chamber near Japanese Parliament cheered and applauded when they heard the announcement "Vote for Post Privatisation Bill, 108. Vote against, 125". It was on 8 August, in between the memorial days of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
20 August 2005
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‘Health cuts are destroying lives’ — voices from the front line

Steve Sweeney member of Cambridge Health Unison
20 August 2005
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International

South African miners strike forces concessions

South African miners strike forces concessions
20 August 2005