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Glasgow against education cuts
The demonstration at 12:00 (noon) today at Glasgow University is still going ahead. Please come down for some company, training and so on. Join this, or your nearest demonstration, if there is no large event going on at your own institution. THIS IS IN JUST OVER AN HOUR, GET YOUR WELLIES ON. Continue reading
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Police provocation and media management By Luna 17
‘The placing of an empty police minibus (in Whitehall) in the path of a known militant march of student demonstrators is a ‘red rag to a bull’. It is nothing short of entrapment and because of the huge policing resources and plans the police made to kettle demonstrators, is part of a deliberate ‘newsmaking’ for… Continue reading
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UK: Student Actions – Only the Beginning
Wednesday 24th November will go down as a day that shook the Con-Dem government. With school and college students walking out and protesting en masse and a wave of sit-ins and occupations in universities across the country, a movement has been born that can inspire millions. Continue reading
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UK: Fury builds over policing
An estimated 130,000 school, college and university students across Britain participated in the day of action, which saw protesters in London -some as young as 13 – pressed into an area at Whitehall for almost nine hours without access to food, water or toilet facilities. Continue reading
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STOP THE WAR COALITION Newsletter No.1180 25 November 2010
Congratulations to the thousands who marched last Saturday to bring the troops home from Afghanistan. And many thanks to all those who have sent messages of support to Stop the War, CND and the BMI for organising what was a very diverse, vibrant and angry demonstration. Continue reading
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Russel Tribunal on Palestine, London Session: Corporate Complicity in Israeli War Crimes
The second international session of the RToP will take place in London, on 20, 21 and 22 November 2010. It will examine *International corporate complicity in Israel’s Violations of International Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, and War Crimes*. Continue reading
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South London Bin Veolia Campaign
MERTON PSC are running a ‘Bin Veolia’ campaign to prevent South London Waste Partnership – covering London Boroughs of Merton, Sutton, Croydon and Kingston upon Thames – from awarding a 25-30 year contract worth £990 million to develop a waste treatment infrastructure to Veolia, a company identified by PSC as a ‘complicit’ firm. Complicit in… Continue reading
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Stars come out for Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s Winter Concert
Television and West End stars will be coming together in December to perform for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) in a fundraising Winter Concert. PSC’s Winter Concert is on Tuesday 7 December at the Polish Centre, King Street, Hammersmith. Continue reading
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What happened at Millbank? By Laurie Penny
A huge demonstration of students and their supporters in London last week–twice as large as organizers had hoped for–rocked British politics as the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government faced the strongest act of defiance yet against its program of austerity. Continue reading
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The Cruelty and Stupidity of the Government’s Welfare Reforms By Andy Worthington
Journalists like to portray Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, as a caring, decent man, but while this may be true in his personal life, politically he is a ruthless ideologue, whose white paper on welfare reform, unveiled yesterday, reveals that he is, to be blunt, monstrously cruel and stupid. In the Daily… Continue reading
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STOP THE WAR COALITION UPDATE 11 November 2010
11 November, 2010 — Stop the War Coalition UPDATE: 1) DEFENDING THE RIGHT TO PROTEST ON 20 NOVEMBER 2) HOW TO JOIN OR SUBSCRIBE TO STOP THE WAR’S FACEBOOK 3) AFGHANISTAN: REASONS TO DEMONSTRATE VIDEOS 1) DEFENDING THE RIGHT TO PROTEST ON 20 NOVEMBER We asked our supporters to complain by email to the Hyde… Continue reading
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STOP THE WAR COALITION Newsletter No.1177: CUT WAR NOT PUBLIC SERVICES
11 November 2010 — STOP THE WAR COALITION IN THIS NEWSLETTER: 1) CUT WAR NOT PUBLIC SERVICES 2) WE WILL DEFY THE BAN ON OUR DEMONSTRATION 3) AS IF WE DON’T KNOW THEY LIE TO US 4) SOLDIER JOE GLENTON HANDS HIS MEDALS TO CAMERON 5) FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE AND TWITTER 1) CUT WAR NOT PUBLIC… Continue reading
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BRITAIN: Not Executing, Just Enabling By David Cronin
European Union officials are reluctant to tighten up rules covering the trade in products designed for torture or the death penalty, despite suggestions that a British company has been exporting lethal injection drugs used in executions. Continue reading
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Liberation: Beyond Resistance Building a People’s Assemblies Movement
In response to the economic crisis, government cuts and the pressures of globalisation, we are now witnessing the rise of social movements from across the political spectrum in Britain, Europe and beyond. But how can this popular discontent be transformed into an emancipatory political movement? It is the view of many activists that a very… Continue reading
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British militants demand One Million Climate Jobs by Martin Empson
The first edition of the Campaign Against Climate Change’s One Million Climate Jobs Now pamphlet has had a big impact within the British trade union and environmental movements. 8,000 copies have been sold to activists in campaigns and trade unions The central arguments had an immediate resonance in the aftermath of the occupation by workers… Continue reading
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Interrogation Techniques at ‘Britain’s Abu Ghraib’ Revealed By Ian Cobain
Evidence of systematic and brutal mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at a secret British military interrogation centre that is being described as the UK’s Abu Ghraib emerged today during high court proceedings brought by more than 200 former inmates. Continue reading
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Deaths in British custody spark outrage over police brutality – RT Top Stories
In Britain, one person is said to die of contact with police every week as relatives of the victims have taken to the streets to bring attention to the alarming number of deaths in police custody. Continue reading
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The echo of the past war By Natalia Meden
Great Britain has unveiled plans to cut its military budget by 8% in the next four years, which is the biggest cut since the end of the World War II. On hearing it Washington voiced concern over possible weakening of its ally’s defense potential. In Germany the reaction on the plan of David Cameron’s Cabinet… Continue reading
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The Party Game Is Over. Stand And Fight By John Pilger
Born of the ‘never again’ spirit of 1945, social democracy in Britain has surrendered to an extreme political cult of money worship. This reached its apogee when £1 trillion of public money was handed unconditionally to corrupt banks by a Labour government whose leader, Gordon Brown, had previously described ‘financiers’ as the nation’s ‘great example’… Continue reading
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Britain Caves To Israeli Pressure; Agrees To Revoke ‘universal Jurisdiction’ Law
In his visit to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories this week, British Foreign Secretary William Hague reported being ‘ambushed’ by Israeli officials who cancelled a high-level security briefing with Hague in response to a British threat to arrest an Israeli official for war crimes. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 