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Jun 4 2011 7:08PM
Remembrance of 1989 Beijing Massacre  

Twenty-twoyears ago, the Chinese Communist Party cracked down the pro-democracy proteststhat began in April 1989 around the country. Over a thousand peacefulprotesters lost their lives and tens of thousand were put into jail. We...

Jun 4 2011 8:19AM
Saturday 4th June: 22nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre

A day of action in London: flash mob in Trafalgar Square,Jeremy Corbyn MP to speak out on human rights in Chinatown, vigil at ChineseEmbassy Twenty-two years on from the Tiananmen Square massacre,human rights defenders in China are...

Jun 3 2011 6:01PM
Dinosaur rock comes of age: Roger Waters and 'Hey Ayatollah!'

When I was getting into music in my teens in the late 70s it was deeply uncool to like "old" stuff. The Sex Pistols, The Buzzcocks, The Stranglers, Blondie, The Undertones, The Ruts, The Specials, Stiff Little Fingers. This was all...

Jun 3 2011 1:35PM
China: Tiananmen, 22 years on, the repressive patterns continue----AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT

Tiananmen Square: 22 years on the repressive patterns continueIt has been 22 years since the People’s Liberation Army fired on peaceful protesters in Beijing and other cities , killing hundreds, if not thousands, of students and other...

Jun 3 2011 12:06AM
Yemen. Crisis? Which crisis?

There’s a lot of discussion around about whether or not it’s "already a civil war” in Yemen, but unquestionably the country is in deep crisis. President Saleh’s tanks are on the streets of the capital Sana’a, the security forces have...