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international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday October 10, 2014 23:46 by john throne
Benny was a Comrade and example. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday August 30, 2012 04:15 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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After attending a workshop last Saturday by U.S. Iraq war veteran Logan Mehl-Laituri at the Greenbelt Festival/ England, I was informed that Joshua Casteel was in a very bad way with the cancer with which he has been struggling. On Sunday we learnt that Joshua had passed away. OBITUARY: Joshua Casteel – Presente! Posted on August 25, 2012 - Pax Christi USA http://tinyurl.com/93cgonz read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday January 25, 2012 02:12 by pat c
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Matt Lygate the Scottish Socialist Republican has died. Here is an obituary.Matt was a believer, not just in Socialism but also in Christianity. If there is an afterlife then he has gone to join John Maclean and James Connolly. Full text at link. Born on 26/12/1938 in Govan Glasgow. From early on,Matt became an accomplished artist, orator, and thinker. He always loved the great outdoors and would often dissapear for hours up hills and down gullies. As a teenager, he moved to Sunderland with his family and became one of the best renouned tailor’s cutters of his time. When ordered to join the British Army (conscription was still in place even after the war), Matt, like his father during WWI, refused stating he would never join an imperialist British Army. That same week, he was on a boat to New Zealand before the powers that be could abscond him. Matt had been an avid member of the CPGB as well as a devout Christian, believing that Christ himself was a revolutionary socialist. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday December 19, 2011 23:53 by pat c
Christopher Hitchens has departed the mortal coil. He used to to be a true anti-imperialist but ended as a supporter of Imperialism. Unlike other ex leftists however Hitch held on to a lot of his radical views and didn't disown his past (like Martin Amis did). But does this balance out his support for the slaughter in Iraq? Sean Fenley pens a critical obituary. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Friday November 18, 2011 04:54 by john throne and Richard Mellor Jimmy Kelly.
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Bridget O'Toole. Friend and Comrade. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Thursday January 13, 2011 05:09 by R.I.P.
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This thread marks the passing in 2011 of folks who have spent their lives struggling for peace and justice (and others). read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday December 29, 2010 04:39 by r.i.p.
R.I.P Thomas (Tomi) Schwaetzer. alias "Max Watts" 1928 - 2010 read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Monday May 24, 2010 13:23 by john throne
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The death of Peter Hadden, leading member of the Socialist Party has generated many speeches and obituaries. Here is my general response. read full story / add a comment
galway / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Thursday January 14, 2010 15:05 by donkylemore
where to the Greens now . the party of probity and ethical standards in high places will they seek to have Lowry removed or will they continue to linger on in power with FF with Lowry's guarantee to follow the govt. whip/ read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday January 03, 2010 10:33 by Troops Out Movement
Frances-Mary Blake 1939 - 2009 Reseacher and Writer on the Irish Civil War. Campaigner for British Withdrawal from Ireland. Supporter of Irish Political Prisoners and their families. Activist on Human Rights & Justice generally read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Saturday April 25, 2009 13:13 by mick b
Obituary to Franklin Rosemont , surrealist poet, artist, labour historian and street speaker . For Rosemont surrealism was “an unrelenting revolt against a civilisation that reduces all human aspirations to market values, religious impostures, universal boredom and misery.” read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Monday February 09, 2009 17:43 by Patrick Coyle
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There is a tendency to dismiss the rantings of Kevin Myers as mere guff designed to sell newspapers. However, this would be to ignore the collateral damage his phosphorous cluster bomb prose inflicts. His salvo last Friday attacking the legacy of Bob Doyle and his comrades who fought in Spain against fascism should be a call to make next Saturday's commemoration in their honour a defiant rebuttal of all Myers' and his ilk stand for. read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media / other press Wednesday April 09, 2008 14:24 by obit
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Ludu Daw Amar has died . Her name means 'Of the people', she was a publisher who published a pro-independence Political Journal entitled the Ludu Daily news in the 1940s. The journal was suppressed eventually by government censors, but she continued to criticise the Burma/Myanmar Junta until near her death. Aung San Suu Kyi had flowers laid at her graveside- in Memoriam. Ludo published on Women's Issues and culture. The Ludu Press became an ethical symbol for the people of Burma/Myanmar. read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Saturday March 29, 2008 13:58 by obit
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Maureen Kenny Has died, a true lover of education and books, many will have a memory of the Labyrinthe bookshop, the smell of the books and the friendly family who ran it. You could find yourself tripping into Mr Kenny's office and getting a lecture on dropping out of college, work; and where the bestest poetry books were kept. Many of us miss the old shop with the low ceilings and the carpetted stairs and Maureen always had a smile- did not matter if you were the Laureate or a small writer, everyone was united by love of knowledge and books. read full story / add a comment 
international / gender and sexuality / other press Friday February 29, 2008 13:21 by obit
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" We should preserve in adults the confident and Joyful attitude of children" Patricia Verdugo has died. She helped form in Chile 'The Women's Movement for Life' ( 1983), which comprised women politicians, activists and writers;a cauccas of women opposed to the Pinochet regime. The WML organised protests against Pinochet . She was a journalist , an activist and an academic, who in the immeadiate aftermath of her father's assasination began her career to expose the Pinochet Regime. She founded 'Hoy' , established 1977. The Publication operated throughout the dictatorship and retained an independent critical position against the dictatorial regime. Her books included; 'Bucharest 187' and 'The Claws of the Puma' (1989) read full story / add a comment 
international / miscellaneous / other press Friday February 08, 2008 01:03 by obit
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Mahesh Prasad Varma (Srivastava) died on February 5, 2008, at approximately 7:00 p.m. less than month after he retired from public life on the 11th of January 2008. He shall be remembered for being the first eastern guru to embrace pop culture in the form of "The Beatles" & extended sitar lessons to George Harrison. His influence on western culture can not be underestimated. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, spiritual leader and businessman, is thought to have been born on January 12 1917. He died on February 5, 2008, aged about 91. He invented TM or "transcendental meditation" & founded the "natural law party" famous for its regular demonstrations of yogic flying. His organisation spanned the globe & its real estate holdings include islands in Ireland. The Beatles made him famous, "The Doors" first met at one of his gigs. NASA sent the Beatles' song "Across the Universe" into space the same day he died. We hopefully will not see his like again. read full story / add a comment 
international / arts and media / other press Tuesday February 05, 2008 12:24 by C Murray
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Ronald Brooke Kitaj, Painter and Writer born in Cleveland 1932- died 2007. RB Kitaj- Diasporist Artist and Magician. He wrote in 1989 a book which was entitled 'The First Diasporist Manifesto', it was sold along with catalogues that accompanied his Retrospective at the Tate Gallery. A further book entitled :- The Second Diasporist Manifesto' was later published by Yale. read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice / other press Thursday December 27, 2007 19:28 by obit the second
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Benazir Bhutto was shot in the neck and then in the head. The asassin then blew himself up and killed 16 people. President Musharraf has appealed for calm. He has not stated that the planned January 5th election will go ahead. George W Bush has condemned the attack, as has Gordon Brown. Both of these leaders are experiencing political difficulties at home with Brown embroiled in an Afghanistan scandal. read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday November 10, 2007 15:35 by obit [the second or third].
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[Due to limited time and breaking all the Obituary rules] :- The death Of Norman Mailer has been announced:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Mailer and instead I want to focus on one issue about his writing and that is the Gilmore Case and the resultant book :- 'The Executioner's Song' which set a bar in documenting the issue of US capital Punishment and also tied into the Timothy Mc Veigh Case in an interesting manner. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / other press Saturday October 20, 2007 01:22 by obit
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Neither you nor I are alphabet soup. We are not numbers. Genetics is not new nor really that literal. One of the two men who presented a molecular modeling of DNA/NDA & got a Nobel prize for it back in 1962 has been suspended from his place of work. It is fitting that since he was one of the "beginners" of "genetics", Dr James Watson had better explain to you the utility of his discovery. He has not passed that test in his last 45 years. His latest assertions that intelligence may be compared between "whomever he thinks he speaks for when he says" := "us" and whatever he means by "black" are being pruned out of what we considered civilised ˇ normal now even though Watson in both his science and comments remains so loyal to 45 years ago. And all his public pilloring is happening just before you get to ask him how smart he thinks orientals are. read full story / add a comment |
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