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St James Tavern, Brighton Staff On Strike Against Slave Labour Conditions
We are witnessing the biggest strike wave in over 30 years as workers say they have had enough of neo-liberal capitalism Today and next Saturday there is a strike at the St James Tavern in Brighton. There will be a picket next Saturday at 4 pm. Driving to the picket I turned into Madeira Place…
Read MoreCan’t Pay, Won’t Bloody Pay! – Heating & Eating are a Right Not a Privilege
Noone Should be Forced to Choose Between Warmth and Food and No one Should Die Because They Can’t Afford It Registration Link https://tinyurl.com/3hvbhjm9 The Socialist Labour Network is launching a national Can’t Pay Won’t Pay campaign with a public meeting this Friday at 6.30 p.m. Speakers include Tommy Sheridan, the former Scottish Socialist MSP, Paula Peters of Disabled People Against the…
Read MoreHelen Aksentijevic interviews veteran anti-Zionist Moshe Machover, one of the founders of Matzpen, the Socialist Organisation in Israel
Machover looks back on life since his childhood under the Palestine Mandate and describes both his own family and political background There are not many people who can justly be described as legends in their own lifetime but Moshe Machover is one such person. An indefatigable optimist he was the ‘one who got away’. Targeted…
Read MoreIsrael’s Lies and Deceptions over the Assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh are not Fooling Anyone
First CNN and then the Washington Post have conducted investigations which contradict Israel’s ‘explanation’ that she was killed by a Palestinian gunman Israel has conducted extra-judicial executions throughout the Occupation of Palestine and it has never hesitated to murder its political opponents, be they in Palestine or, as in the case of Ghassan Kanfani, in…
Read MoreMay 29 was Jerusalem Day – Israelis celebrated by chanting ‘Death to the Arabs’ and Physically Attacking Them – BBC’s Yolande Knell described it as ‘really jubilant, festive, it feels like a party.’
According to Ha’aretz ‘Dozens of Jerusalem Day Videos Showed Jews Beating Palestinians’ – yet the BBC saw nothing Every year Israel ‘celebrates’ the capture of Arab East Jerusalem with Jerusalem Day including Flag March. Previous years have seen thousands of settlers chanting ‘Death to the Arabs ‘May Your Villages Burn’. This year was no exception. Despite this Israeli Labor…
Read MorePetition to Remove anti-Protest Police State Measures from the Public Order Bill
Let’s Use Johnson’s Imminent Demise to Get Rid of His Poisonous Legacy In the coming session of Parliament the Government intends to introduce a new Public Order Bill which will effectively abolish the right to all except ineffective protests and demonstrations. Interfering with ‘onshore oil and gas exploration and production facilities’ i.e. fracking will now…
Read MoreBoris Johnson’s Pyrrhic Victory – But the Real Issue is Whether his Attack on the Right to Protest Survives a Change in Prime Minister
It is Doubtful Whether Johnson Will Survive to the End of June but Underlying the Vote Are Political Differences Such as Brexit There is a word for taking delight in someone else’s misfortunes – Schadenfreude. It is difficult to think of a more detestable character than Boris Johnson. A bona fide racist, homophobe, anti-Semite, Zionist, arch imperialist and warmonger, anti-democratic, contemptuous of the…
Read MoreThe Jubilee is a Celebration of 70 Years of Elizabeth Windsor Living At Our Expense
The Monarchy is the String that Ties the Robber’s Bundle – We Have to Make Sure That There is No Charles III Platinum Jubilee – The Great British distraction I imagine that like me you are sick to the backteeth of the servile, sycophantic, fawning tone of BBC broadcasters and news readers as they compete…
Read MoreWhat Happened in Uvalde is Why the Police Should Be Defunded
While a Gunman was Killing 19 children and their teachers in Ulvade Texan Police Handcuffed, Pepper Sprayed and Tasered the Parents Instead! The Problem Isn’t Gun Law but America’s Violent Racist Society – Gun Law Reform Won’t Change That If ever there was a demonstration as to why the Police should be defunded, it was…
Read MoreIn Defence of Boris Johnson – his Real Offence was to have been an Honest Crook!
Beware what you wish for! Neither Jeremy Hunt nor Herr Stürmer will be an improvement As readers of this blog can confirm, I have always supported the underdog and there is no dog who is more under attack at the moment than Boris Johnson. To forestall the inevitable complaints from dog lovers I apologise in advance for…
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