Issue: 1765
Dated: 08 Sep 2001
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POLITICIANS IN Britain and across the world are targeting refugees...
OVER 50 people attended an Anti Nazi League meeting in Aberdeen on Thursday 30 August. The series of ANL rallies across Scotland follow the murder of Kurdish refugee Firsat Yildiz Dag in Glasgow...
THE AUSTRALIAN government has set new standards for callous treatment of refugees. Its attitude to the 460 desperate refugees rescued by the Norwegian freighter Tampa from their sinking boat on Sunday...
CHE GUEVARA has become a symbol of rebellion and revolution across the world. Just as during the revolts of the 1960s...
MANCHESTER UNISON union convenor Richard Searle was reinstated last week. This was just two weeks after his suspension for talking to the press in his capacity as a UNISON spokesperson...
NEW LABOUR'S philosophy is summed up by burger firms and businessmen. Last week the party got McDonald's to sponsor a top conference dinner with Tony Blair for �15,000...
VIOLENCE, HATRED, causing terror to children. That is the real face of Northern Ireland's Orangemen and Unionists revealed this week...
NAZI BRITISH National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin could face prison for illegally accepting donations from racists in the US for party funds. The Nazi toff who pretends to be a man of the people ...
PROTESTERS will be converging on London's Docklands next Tuesday to launch a week of protest against Europe's biggest arms fair. The New Labour government is hosting the grotesque fair...
THE ANTI-Nazi majority seized the initiative and took to the streets last weekend. The anti-Nazi activity was centred around Oldham, Burnley and Bradford, areas where the Nazi BNP increased its vote ...
NEW LABOUR is giving a multinational company the chance to run a slave labour operation. UK Detention Services is a subsidiary of Sodexho, the multinational firm that
TUBE WORKERS are set to ballot for strike action over pay after management refused to agree to a rise recommended by an independent mediator. The mediator said all tube workers should receive a 4 percent increase...
ALMOST 100 people joined last Sunday's picket of Scotland's first detention centre for asylum seekers at Dungavel in south Lanarkshire...
two of the country's three trade unions...
McLABOUR means McJobs. A report by the TELCO community organisation, focused on east London, found that privatisation of public services "has driven down the pay and conditions of staff"
CHILDREN IN England and Wales are returning to school to be greeted with the most severe shortage of teachers for three decades. And schools in Scotland, which in recent years has not faced a crisis ...
ON 30 September in Brighton thousands of protesters will tell Tony Blair that people should come before profit. The demonstration is for everyone outraged at the way the Labour Party conference...
TOXIC TEXAN President George W Bush ordered the US delegates to leave the United Nations conference on racism this week. The US delegation marched out of the conference in South Africa...
TONY BLAIR will be supping with the devil when he attends the dinner hosted by McDonald's at the Labour Party conference in three weeks time...
They were protesting at wage and pension cuts imposed by the government in conjunction with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The protest was called jointly by
THERE IS a crisis over teacher shortages. Yet primary school teacher Veronica McLeod was sacked last week from her job at St Kessog's School in Balloch, Scotland...
ALMOST 100 people joined last Sunday's picket of Scotland's first detention centre for asylum seekers at Dungavel in south Lanarkshire...
"THE ECONOMIC slowdown facing the UK is now spreading beyond manufacturing." That was the grim warning this week from the head of the bosses' CBI organisation...
MAJOR TRADE unions are backing protest rallies in defence of council housing at this month's TUC and Labour Party conferences...
I AM a student nurse at UCLH hospitals in central London. The trust has decided to close
WORKERS IN the Employment Service and the Benefits Agency in south west London and Brent have voted for indefinite strike action by 334 votes to 74...
THE FAMILY of Zahid Mubarek, the Asian teenager murdered by a "psychopathic" and racist inmate at Feltham Young Offenders Institution, have won the latest round in their battle for a public inquiry...
Toxic Texan President George W Bush ordered the US delegates to leave the United Nations conference on racism this week. The US delegation marched out of the conference in South Africa because representatives of many countries had dared to condemn Israel's brutal treatment of the Palestinian people.
The big powers at the UN conference also pushed aside calls for them to apologise for the slave trade. The British government led the pack. Britain was at the forefront of the slave trade in the 18th century.
Gorton Tub LOCAL PEOPLE protested last week to show their anger at Manchester City Council's decision to close the popular swimming pool Gorton Tub. Campaigners went to the site of the £90 million Commonwealth Games stadium.
THE AUSTRALIAN government has set new standards for callous treatment of refugees. Its attitude to the 460 desperate refugees rescued by the Norwegian freighter Tampa from their sinking boat on Sunday 26 August was "let them drown". John Howard, the Liberal (Tory) prime minister of Australia, has ignored the refugees' pleas to be allowed to come to Australia.