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Defense begins case in trial of Bradley Manning By Thomas Gaist
The defense began its case this week, but it has been hamstrung in advance by military judge Colonel Denise Lind’s ruling that Manning’s political motives were irrelevant to case, which effectively denies the defendant any ability to mount a whistleblower defense. Continue reading
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Immigrants to be charged for non-emergency health care in Britain By Jordan Shilton
The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition has revealed plans that would compel general practitioners (GPs) to refuse to treat “ineligible” immigrants on the National Health Service (NHS) unless the immigrants have paid a £200 annual charge. Behind the proposal to charge immigrants to access the NHS is the drive to completely eliminate free access to public health… Continue reading
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German authorities persecute anti-fascist protester By Martin Nowak
After seven days of proceedings, the Dresden District Court has suspended the trial of Lothar König indefinitely. The prosecution accuses König, a youth pastor from Jena, of serious breach of the peace, obstruction of justice and resisting a law enforcement officer. He is alleged to have incited protesters to engage in violence against police on… Continue reading
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British NHS watchdog promotes privatisation By Barry Mason
The report that the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) watchdog, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), suppressed one of its own investigative reports is the latest scandal to hit the organisation, whose supposed aim is to protect health and social care standards. Continue reading
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Britain’s People’s Assembly covers for Labour and trade unions By Paul Mitchell and Robert Stevens
The “People’s Assembly Against Austerity”, held in London on June 22, was a desperate attempt to uphold the threadbare authority of the trade unions and to suppress any movement independent of them and the Labour Party. Continue reading
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Mass austerity to be outlined in UK government spending review By Robert Stephens
WLGA director Steve Thomas commented last week, ‘We know that in England, in the first year of the cuts process in 2010-11, libraries were closed en masse, we saw leisure centres closed, we saw huge staff reductions across English local government—in total I think there’s been around 230,000 job losses. That carnage continues.’ Continue reading
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Workers in Britain suffer the greatest fall in wages since the 1930s By Robert Stevens
The UK is experiencing the deepest and most protracted economic downturn in a century. The decline in wages is even greater than that resulting from the Great Depression of the 1930s. Continue reading
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JPMorgan calls for authoritarian regimes in Europe By Stefan Steinberg
In a document released at the end of May, the American banking and investment giant JP Morgan Chase calls for the overturning of the bourgeois democratic constitutions established in a series of European countries after the Second World War and the installation of authoritarian regimes. Continue reading
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US-backed “rebels” carry out sectarian massacre in Syria By Bill Van Auken
At least 60 people, including women, children and the elderly, were killed in a massacre of Shia Muslims by US-backed “rebels” in eastern Syria Tuesday. Continue reading
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London police launch violent raid on anti-G8 protesters By Robert Stevens
Mass arrests were made by police after they smashed their way into a squat with chainsaws, axle-grinders, crowbars and climbing gear. The disused building used by squatters in Beak Street, near Regent Street in Soho, was surrounded by 100 riot police from 10 am. Continue reading
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