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today in history, august 27, 1964: beatlemania hit when beatles played

British hero Lord Louis Mountbatten and three other people, including his 14-year-old Nicholas, were killed off the coast of Ireland in boat explosion claimed by Irish Republican Army. 1989. U.S rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida Delta booster carrying British..

john cornford, the tragedy of a faithful communist

The Comintern urged British and American members to go to Spain, and there to pursue coalition with Republican forces, and shun the direct revolutionary tactics favoured by the anarchists and Trotskyists  Readers of Orwell will remember that it took him some time to work out the..

» anti-bds bill passes us senate– imemc news

“Our country was founded upon the concept and in the midst of a great boycott,” Senator Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, said in remarks to the Senate opposing the measure. “At the time, we were boycotting British goods and most specifically, British tea. ..

capitalism's long crisis

Gripped with fear, world central banks imitated the relative success of Fed and moved away from the mantra preached by Merkel-Bundesbank, British conservatives, and Republican Right that austerity was the road to growth. ..

the rise and fall of new world slavery

In my book I draw attention to the fact that the alliance between France and the new Black Saint-Domingue lasted few years, with Thermidorean leadership playing quite role — even sanctioning war on in Caribbean, a quasi-war with United States, and republican uprising Ireland. But,..

the political psychology of irish republicanism

In Northern Ireland there has been no shortage of republican heroism or of epic events with the power to overwhelm the sympathetic or even hostile imagination — the 1981 hunger strikes, for example, when ten men starved themselves to death. ... In 1934, the Republican Congress split, and..

something in the air

First published in An Phoblacht/Republican News, 19 August 1999 . . . ... Throughout those early years - against the background of the war, a bombing campaign in Britain, attacks on our demonstrations by the far right, state harassment and the anti-republican `Peace People' - TOM was to..

atrocity trial limit debated

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher slipped into Northern Ireland Tuesday for a surprise Christmas visit with British security forces in a border area where Irish Republican Army guerrillas oprate. . . . Shrugging off Protestant protests and the threat of violence..

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