time is right to see whether the Orange Order can achieve a broader understanding and acceptance..."
He describes the fact that businesses are closed down during the marches by those who are offended as "disappointing". This comes on the heels of continued threats by Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern to shut down toe Noraero Ireland Assembly. Buenos Aires, Argentina Delayed action (1) After 20 years of impunity for war criminals in Argentina, former police commissioner Miguel Etchecolatz was accused of eight cases of illegal arrest, torture and murder during the Galtieri dictatorship from 1976-83.
The countrv's Supreme Court annulled amnesty laws last year which had been in place for 20 years and have led to the charges. Baghdad, Iraq Condition Iraq's prime minister Nuri al-Miliki outlined a "national reconciliation initiative" which supposedly gives insurgents "conditional American troops try to fraternise with Iraqi civilians Harper has officially apologised for the fines imposed on Chinese immigrants in 1885 and completely banned entry from 1923 to 1947.
Having largely been responsible for the building of Canada's railways, the tax and banning meant that some 15,000 Chinese men could not send for their wives and children.
This is seen by most to be an economic move by Harper amid a growing population of Chinese-Canadians with crucial economic links to a fastgrowing China. The cost is also minimal given that only 20 who paid the tax and 300 widows are still alive. London, Britain Cut on the bias An independent panel which was paid for the governors of the BBC to investigate a supposed bias against Israel angered BBC's bosses last month by concluding that in fact the BBC may not be giving a fair account of the situation generally.
This includes not reporting enough on the history and context of the area and too little coverage on the daily difficulties of the Palestinians living under occupation. The panel also high risk of cyanide poisoning.
The Pascua Lama mine will operate tax free while polluting the Andean valley. Indigenous groups and environmental activists have joined forces to oppose the plan and hope to have the plan reviewed by the InterAmerican Human Rights Court. London Balls in the air While Gordon Brown himself has been demonstrating what a true-blue Blairite he is, there is another layer within New Labour which seeks... gently and tactfully sweet-talk Brown to embrace some of their far-from radical policies.
That was the main drift of the June 17 conference organised by Compass entitled "The Shape of Things to Come.
It began with Balls talking (Ed Balls, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, and it went on talking balls, with a succession of ministers, bureaucrats and New Labour hangers-on attempting to give the impression that they could rescue the party and pull it back to some kind of 'left' alternative.
Of course Blair has wrenched New Labour so far to the right on so many issues that almost any change or direction would seem to De leftwards: but with Blair's nominee as Party chair Hazel Blears on the platform and ministers delivering speeches cratted to ensure thev run no risks of annoying the boss, there was never any chance of a genuinely left wing critique or alternative emerging. Chris Jones Almost 200 years after the Peterloo massacre St Peter's Field in Manchester is moving centre stage in British politics again.
Since the infamous events of 1819 the area has seen many changes. In the mid 19th century the Field was built over with two urban symbols of Victorian capitalism - a massive railway terminus and goods interchange, and the Free Trade Hall - a centre of bourgeois free trade campaigning.
Today these sites are - fittingly post modern - a convention and exhibition centre and a hotel. Maybe it is equally fitting that the Labour Party in crisis has chosen this site for its 2006 Annual conference.
Manchester has suffered several visits by David Cameron in the past few months. The arrival of the Labour Party conference probably confirms the suspicions of some local observers that cities and their problems are going centre stage in British politics.
Blair will point to the massive rebuilding of central Manchester on the back of Olympic bids and the 1996 IRA bomb, and the dramatic changes in other Northern cities such as Leeds and Newcastle. Cameron highlights It's time to avenge Peterloo! Sheffield are planning a fourday feeder march through Derbyshire (a reverse route to the Blanketeers who planned to walk from Manchester through Derbyshire to London in 1817).
The Stop the War demonstration coincides with the start of the European week of Action against war and imperialism called by the European Social Forum.
This provides an excellent opportunity to tie the British anti-war movement more closely to its European allies by inviting speakers and contingents from across Europe to join the demonstration against Bush's number one ally.
Many Manchester organisations and activists are planning protests and events with the central theme of social justice during the week of the conference. It is hoped that throughout the week the voice of those
who want to see an end to neo-liberalism will make their opinions clear to the conference. The march to Peterloo involved weeks of preparation to bring people in their thousands together to demand changes that would bring the social justice they desired. It is hoped that the working class of Manchester will take this opportunity to make their voice heard by going to the events planned and the conference entrances with their banners and placards.
A summer of preparation is on the cards. Leaflets explaining how government policies are failing every sector of society are being produced for wide distribution. They will call for an end to passivity and for working class people to express their frustration with their feet.
Some comrades are wary of the comparison with Peterloo because of the massacre carried out by the state's forces. The more positive message is one of organisation and mobilisation to unite the working class against those who at best pay lip service to the problems workers face. Join us in Manchester.