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STOP THE WAR COALITION NEWSLETTER No. 1125 11 November 2009 ANTI-WAR SOLDIER ARRESTED: PROTEST NOW
Lance Corporal Joe Glenton, the soldier who faces desertion charges for refusing to return to Afghanistan, has been arrested and charged with five further offences for leading Stop the War’s demonstration in London on 24 October and forexpressing his opposition to the media in defiance of orders. Continue reading
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UK: Sign the petition to bring the troops home from Afghanistan
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to bring the troops home from Afghanistan. Noting the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, and the destabilisation of Pakistan arising from the NATO military intervention in the region, and believing that only the Afghan people themselves can generate a political solution to their country’s problems, we therefore demand that… Continue reading
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UK: Action stations over Afghanistan
The war effort in Afghanistan is starting to fall apart at the seams. We will shortly reach the hundredth British soldier’s death this year, and there is talk in military circles of withdrawing British troops from the frontline. Continue reading
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My Cancer: The Waiting Game by Sarah Meyer – Index Research
The language applied to cancer sounds like Obama’s wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. We hear about “battles” – “Fighting the Enemy” and the “War on Cancer.” Constructively discussing the actual process of life and death can often be a no-go zone. Even the word ‘death’ is replaced by the awful term, “passing away.” Continue reading
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Negative spacemen By Alan Simpson MP
Nick Griffin has become Labour’s negative space. He occupies the political ground that Labour has abandoned and fills it with a different emptiness. Continue reading
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UK/USA made use of Uzbek torture Craig Murray
Former Brit ambassador Craig Murray says UK and USA sent prisoners to Uzbek to be tortured http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.3780714 Watch Part 2 Here more about “UK/USA made use of Uzbek torture“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Are you listening yet, Mr Crozier? By Paul Haste on the picket line
Standing in solidarity with striking post workers on the picket line at central London’s huge Mount Pleasant mail centre, Mr Ward explained that ‘post workers have already lost 60,000 jobs and another 60,000 are at risk, while the remaining full-time workers fear being forced to accept part-time positions.’ Continue reading
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Olive Morris: Forgotten activist hero By Lizzie Cocker
In an age when xenophobia and Islamophobia are being stoked by illegal wars and immigration myths, the need to wrench hidden realities from history in order to see today’s truths has never been more urgent. And thanks to the Remembering Olive Collective (ROC) founded by artist Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre in 2007, a… Continue reading
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Bring ALL British Troops Home By William Gladys
Although Prince Harry failed to march with the Anti-War Majority on the streets of London recently, a fearless Peace Seeking Lance Corporal bravely hoisted a Flag of Peace to the mast for the entire world to see. To observe a serving soldier marching in opposition to the Queen’s foreign policy in the Middle-East was heartening… Continue reading
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A Postal Strike In Britain Is The War At Home By John Pilger
The postal workers’ struggle is as vital for democracy as any national event in recent years. The campaign against them is part of a historic shift from the last vestiges of political democracy in Britain to a corporate world of insecurity and war. If the privateers running the Post Office are allowed to win, the… Continue reading
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“Royal Mail secret plot with ‘the Shareholder’ (ie. the Labour government)
17 October, 2009 — Red Postie BBC Newsnight on Thursday revealed a leaked confidential document spilling the beans on a Royal Mail plan to impose cuts, provoke a strike and smash the union. This blows a hole in their spin over the past couple of weeks about an uncooperative union! The document, marked ‘in strictest… Continue reading
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CUBA 50 event – CULTURA Y CUBANIA festival of music, dance, photography, film, discussion
Cultura y Cubania, coinciding with Black History Month, will be a week-long cultural event celebrating the richness of Cuban culture. Taking place in prestigious London venues such as, Canning House, Bolivar Hall and Conway Hall, it showcases the work of some of the best Cuban Artists living in the UK today as well as that… Continue reading
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Rising from the East: A day to explore communities, culture and politics in London’s East End
Rising from the East: A day to explore communities, culture and politics in London’s East End Continue reading
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‘New’ Labour on the rocks? The last of the lackeys jump ship By Solomon Hughes
I got a sense of the complete exhaustion of the new Labour project when Will Hutton launched a crushing attack on 12 wasted years at a fringe meeting at the party’s conference. Hutton was speaking at a Policy Network fringe meeting…. Policy Network is an “international progressive think tank” founded by Blair in 2000 with… Continue reading
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US Torture Under Scrutiny In British Courts By Andy Worthington
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files, reports on three important court cases in the UK this week, focusing on “extraordinary rendition” and torture in the “War on Terror.” These cases have implications not only for the complicity of the British government in the Bush administration’s flight from the law, but also for the Obama… Continue reading
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Dick Cheney’s “Executive Assassination Ring”. Was British Weapons Expert Dr. David Kelly a Target? By Tom Burghardt
Revelations that the Central Intelligence Agency launched a world-wide assassination program, and then concealed its existence from the U.S. Congress and the American people for eight years, carries an implication that death squads may have been employed against political opponents. Continue reading
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WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE: “Big Trouble in Little Paradise: the Turks and Caicos Islands takeover”
WikiLeaks has released a suppressed report laying at the center of UK plans to seize direct control of the Turks & Caicos Islands, a popular Caribbean tourist destination and tax haven. A British warship on patrol in the Caribbean sea, the HMS Iron Duke, is expected to support the takeover once the report is released. Continue reading
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Video: Nick Griffin: Not in my name
Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons of the British National Party will be taking their seats in the European Parliament tomorrow – but they are not there in our name. I’ll be going there as well, to hand in our petition – and I want your name on it. http://notinmyname.tv http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/ExternalVideo.848919 more about “Not In My… Continue reading
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Fighting the BNP – where do we go now? Take the survey
Over the past few months the Hope not Hate campaign has led the fight against the BNP. You helped build the largest anti fascist movement in Britain – your support built this movement. Now it’s up to you to decide how we move forward Continue reading
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“Left Must Unite to Create an Alternative”
The fascists pose a threat to working class organisations, black, Asian and other residents of this country — who BNP führer Nick Griffin dubs ‘alien’ — our civil liberties and much else. Continue reading
