Several of the acts who played at the Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) carnival spoke out last week about why they are taking a stand against the fascist British National Party (BNP).
The past decade has seen the emergence of new movements of resistance. They were initially provoked by the form of corporate globalisation imposed by the neoliberal policies of the leading Western governments.
Rocketing price rises are threatening to plunge tens of millions around the world into hunger and food insecurity.
The roots of the Turkish revolution from above lie in the crisis of the Ottoman Empire that occured before the First World War.
‘Around 1550, England was a medium-ranking European state and London an average-sized European capital city of about 75,000 people.
Millions of workers are struggling to survive in Gordon Brown’s Britain. But Thursday 24 April is the day we can start to fight back. Hundreds of thousands of teachers, lecturers, civil service workers, council workers in Birmingham and other groups of workers will all be walking out on that day over pay.
‘The unions in Birmingham council have called for a strike of their 20,000 members on Wednesday and Thursday of next week against their single status pay settlement.
‘The attacks on pay and on adult education are being led by the government. These are the issues that have led lecturers in further education colleges to vote for strike action.
‘It is crucial that all workers back those striking on 24 April. I will be speaking at a strike rally in Oxford on that day as the branch secretary of the local CWU postal workers’ union.
‘It becomes more of a struggle to get by for civil service workers each year as we face yet another below-inflation pay offer. My student loans debt is gathering interest as I’m not on a high enough wage to even start paying it back.
