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Post Views: 33 GERRY ADAMS The statement by ETA on Monday that it is committed to ‘a permanent and general ceasefire which will be verifiable by the international community’ has the potential to propel the efforts for peace in that
Read MoreUna política criminal y extemporánea 0
Post Views: 8 La manifestación por los derechos de los presos convocada para el próximo 8 de enero en Bilbo sigue sumando adhesiones. Ayer fueron los representantes de los partidos políticos Eusko Alkartasuna, Aralar, Alternatiba, Abertzaleen Batasuna y de la
Read MoreSinn Fein and the election in 2011 0
Post Views: 8 Gerry Adams (for Leargas) President of Sinn Fein This blog is now the Sinn Fein candidate for Louth and East Meath. In the Fairways Hotel last night party activists from across the constituency unanimously and enthusiastically endorsed
Read MoreReform in Cuba Raúl the pragmatist 0
Post Views: 9 Bold changes intended to preserve Cuban communism may herald the beginning of its end SHORTLY after he took charge of Cuba from his ailing brother, Fidel, in 2006, Raúl Castro declared that his country’s moribund communist economy
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Will the Turkish government continues on its unilateral war?
Post Views: 14 The unilateral ceasefire declared by the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) is set to end tomorrow. The papers are all asking the same question: will the PKK extends the ceasefire ? It is clearly the wrong question to
Read MoreThe mid-terms States’ fights 0
Post Views: 7 Elections for governorships and state legislatures could affect America as much as the more famous mid-term battle for Congress IF THE amount spent on an election campaign is any measure of its significance, then the three most
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My days as an observer at Kurdish politicians trial
Post Views: 8 Jeremy Corbyn, Labour MP for Islington NorthDiyarbakir is an ancient city in Eastern Turkey with well preserved walls from its foundation and an astonishing Ottoman period bazaar. The vast majority of the population are Kurdish speaking as
Read MorePeace comes dropping slow
Post Views: 24 GERRY ADAMS * The Middle East peace talks, which formally opened in Washington on Thursday 2 September, have been given one year. It’s a tall order. In 2006 when I visited the region I spent a brief
Read MoreKurdistan. PKK: a challenge to start talking peace
Post Views: 28 Once again it is the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) who took the first step. Yesterday’s declaration of yet another unilateral ceasefire shows that the PKK is in a position of strength. Political strength, that is. Indeed, important
Read MoreEuropean Social Forum: Perhaps there is a need for a reflection time. But it can’t be too long 0
Post Views: 7 On Saturday, 3 July, around 3,000 people joined the march of the European Social Forum (ESF) in Istanbul. It was the closing march of the sixth European Social Forum. Just as there is low participation in Turkish
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