Just in…
“A hearing is pending in the Royal Courts of Justice, London, on Wed. 21st, October at 10.30am, at which Scottish & Southern Energy is applying for an injunction against Steve Acheson. The Injunction is being sought to prevent Steve from protesting at Fiddlers Ferry power station about his dismissal from the project because of the now notorious construction industry blacklist.
This injunction is [...]
Entries from October 2009
October 19, 2009
“You couldn’t make it up” (3) Terrorism law used against protest
October 19, 2009
The Communist Party and the General Election
There has been some speculation in the blogosphere on the role of the Communist Party of Britain in the successor initiative to NO2EU and standing candidates in the general election.
The article below is a report on last weekend’s meeting of the CPB Executive Commitee.
It appeared in today’s Morning Star. It also appears on the [...]
October 14, 2009
Shaming.
Two reports in two days, and each absolutely shaming.
The first is on the Yarl’s Wood detention centre. It has appeared in some of the media and there was a report on it on Channel Four news last night. (links at end of article)
A report has been published in Child Abuse & Neglect: the International Journal [...]
October 13, 2009
The German Greens’ “Jamaica Coalition”
This blog has commented before on the rightward evolution of the German Greens.
It comes as no surprise therefore that in the German state of Saarland the Greens have now decided to form a so-called (after the parties respective colours) “Jamaica” coalition. It is forming an administration with the conservative Christian Democrats, and the free-market radicals [...]
October 12, 2009
“Everything must go!” Brown’s closing down sale
To follow up his conference speech in which he put “clear red water” between him and Cameron, Brown has decided to flog off another whole bunch of public assets.
Just to prove how much more in favour of the state he is than the Tories he is selling off the government’s 33% stake in Urenco, [...]
October 11, 2009
The Great Game continues
An article in today’s Observer gives an interesting overview of relations between the USSR’s most important successor states: Russia and the Ukraine.
with the international financial system almost collapsing, a global recession, a new US president, continuing war on Palestine, and in Iraq and Afghanistan…
It is not surprising that attention has strayed once again from what [...]
October 10, 2009
Christine Bucholz: Revolutionary in the Bundestag
One of the newly elected members of the Bundestag for Die Linke is Christine Buchholz.
She is a Die Linke acitivist in Hesse and is a supporter of Marx21, a network that was formerly the Linksruck orgasnisation, connected to the SWP in this country.
The success of Die Linke in the recent elections was stunning, but the [...]
October 7, 2009
“You couldn’t make it up” (2): The Blairs’ property empire
Plugs of the Daily Mail is not something you would normally see here, but some things are os outrageous that even a story in The Mail deserves repeating
The Blairs recently bought a £1.3 million mews in an “upmarket area of London”, for cash. This is their sixth “home”
Furthermore it seems that they bought it for [...]
October 3, 2009
Sign The People’s Charter online
The People’s Charter website is now online.
You can use it to find out about The Charter, activities organised and how you can get involved.
Most of all you can sign The Charter and ask others to do so too.
On the Sign Up page if you press the SHARE button (below) you can e-mail the link [...]
October 3, 2009
“Make Capitalism History” dielinke.SDS
This weekend DieLinke.SDS, the student organisation of Die Linke is having a conference “Make Capitalsim History”. I thought the video was rather nicely done.
For the Make Capitalism History site click here
For the Die Linke.SDS click here
For their Youtube channel click here
