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The pros and cons of internet power

Posted on July 10th 2009 | 2 comments

James Turley looks at the role of new media in politics

One of the more curious features of the western media coverage of the recent events in Iran has been the prominence given to social networking websites.
In particular, Twitter – which allows users to easily distribute short and typically frivolous messages to those who sign up [...]

No 2 EU looks to Far Right for Votes

Posted on May 10th 2009 | 79 comments
Andrew Ballard - Left Nationalist

Andrew Ballard – Left Nationalist
Facebook (FB) is a peculiar world occupied by office workers, students and the unemployed. On it you can follow the latest intrigues of this or that friend, stalk the weirdest sectarians and at times find out somebody’s politics by where they post. The RMT, the Stalinist CPB and the “Trotskyist” Socialist [...]

Censorship on Facebook

Posted on September 15th 2007 | No comments

First published in Communist Student no.3
The Stop the War Coalition’s student grouping has censored a critical article on the question of Iran, submitted by CS member David Isaacson – an indication of the lack of democracy that still cripples much of the left
Any Facebook-using comrades who looked at the new Stop the War Students group [...]