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Labour’s Road to Defeat
Ed Miliband’s Third Way to Electoral Disaster Miliband – torn between support for capitalism and the need for a radical manifesto There are times when you see someone walking headlong over the cliff and you feel bound to try and prevent the inevitable disaster. Such is the case with Ed Miliband’s catastrophic misleadership of the…
Read MoreSaudi Sponsorship of Isis and the tyranny of Wahhabism
Iraq crisis: How SaudiArabia helped Isis take over the north of the country Below is an interesting article analysing the Saudi ruling family’s baleful influence on recent developments in the Middle East, in particular its relationship to Isis. The article appeared in The Independent, whose coverage of the Middle East is by far and away…
Read MoreThe Killing of Palestinian and Israeli Teenagers Demonstrates The Difference Between The Treatment of Palestinian and Jewish Life
The Killing of Israeli Teenagers is Political, the Killing of Palestinian Teenager is Criminal The difference between the treatment of the killing of a Palestinian teenager and the three Israeli teenagers says everything you need to know about Israeli indifference to Palestinian life. The unspoken message if ‘they’ love death, we love life. racism as…
Read MoreBrighton’s Sodastream Shop is Forced to Close
A Magnificent Victory for BDS When Israel’s Sodastream decided to set up shop in Brighton, in an attempt to exploit our Green credentials, the local Palestine Solidarity Campaign took up the challenge and began a weekly picket with others on week days. Local Zionist and Kach/EDL thug, Simon Cobbs, vowed that this would not be…
Read MoreIsrael Tortures and Shackles Palestinian Children
Palestinian children as young as 9, are being held at the G4S prison at Ofer and at other gaols, beaten up, forced to sit in extremely uncomfortable positions, with food thrown on the floor. It is impossible to imagine this could every happen to a Jewish child. Thus we see the Israeli State in all…
Read MoreWhy I resigned from Left Unity
Feminists Brook no Debate on ‘Safe Spaces’ – Manchester Branch suspensions I resigned from Left Unity nearly a month ago. Set up in a blaze of publicity, it has fallen victim to identity politics and navel gazing. It reports that it has 2,000 members. If so they make next to no impact. There is no…
Read MoreIDS – The Tory’s version of Scrooge
The Contemptible Ian Duncan Smith Is there anyone more despicable than Ian Duncan Smith? He puts Scrooge to shame for the latter’s generosity. This is a man who spent £10,000 of public money having his portrait painted. After being sacked as Tory leader he went on a mission of salvation to Easterhouse in Glasgow where…
Read MoreNHS Charges – The Slow Destruction of the NHS
New Labour’s Lord Warner & Tories Propose The Introduction of Fees New Labour scum seek to reverse the major achievement of the post-war Labour government. Lord Warner, former New Labour Health Minister, advocates charging for NHS services. Creatures like Warner infested Blair’s government Simon Stevens, a former vice-president of the US health-care giant United Health…
Read MoreOpen Letter to Left Unity
An Organisation that is Afraid to Campaign Left Unity was formed last year with the many of the members coming from the fall-out in the SWP over Martin Thomas and the question of rape/sexual harrassment. Others are relatively new to politics and of course there are those who are members of existing left groups –…
Read MoreVisiting the Middle East’s only ‘democracy’
Nobody knew where I was, nobody… I was simply disappeared’: An Italian tourist’s Ben Gurion nightmare Andrea Pesce on March 22, 2014 5 My name is Andrea Pesce, I am 44 years old and I’m an Italian citizen. ben gurion airport For 15 years I had the chance to visit Israel and Palestine, thanks…
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