Lawyer assassinated
Stanislav Markelov, a well known human rights lawyer, was shot dead after he left a press conference in Moscow. He had just announced that he would fight against the early release of a former Russian tank commander jailed for murdering a Chechen woman.
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In The Socialist 21 January 2009:
Fast news: My Lords, Ladies and cash dispenser
War and occupation
Gaza war paves way for further conflict
Protesting against Gaza attacks
Egypt: Gaza conflict fuels anti-Mubarak opposition
Readers' comment: media reporting on Gaza
Socialist Party campaigns
Fighting the cuts in Greenwich
Shop workers need a fighting trade union leadership
Hoover workers march in protest at job losses
Socialist Party feature
Obama takes power: What change will the Democrats bring?
International socialist news and analysis
Refugees and repression in war ravaged Sri Lanka
Exiled Zimbabweans demand Brown acts
Capitalism kills, concludes study of privatisation era
Environment and socialism
Opposing the expansion of Heathrow
Waltham Forest anti-incinerator campaign: Residents get results
Campaigners fight attacks on education and the environment
Socialist Students
Socialist Party review
What's going on? The meanderings of a comic mind in confusion, by Mark Steel
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