The clear winner of the first Labour leadership candidates’ debate, held at the GMB congress in Southport last Monday, was also the one who seemed least likely to get on the ballot paper.
Up to 20,000 people poured onto the streets of London last Saturday to condemn Israel’s attack on the Freedom Flotilla on 31 May. In Edinburgh, over 5,000 marched to the US embassy against the Israeli attack.
Protest! Manchester Gaza Flotilla demonstration, 2pm Sunday 13 June, All Saints, Oxford Rd, Manchester Two new convoys of aid will travel to Gaza in September, one by land and the other by sea, announced George Galloway. Galloway also called on the Egyptian government to open the borders and let the aid throughGet your union to donate to Medical Aid for Palestine (MAP)—go to » www.map-uk.org Pass a motion in your trade union branch condemning the attacks and send union aid on the new convoys or to MAP
North London 12 noon outside Whittington Hospital Hackney 6pm, Hackney town hall Lewisham 6pm, at the clock tower Lambeth 6pm, Lambeth town hall Southwark 5.30pm, Elephant & Castle tube station Manchester 6pm, Piccadilly Gardens Newcastle 5pm, the Monument Leeds 6pm, Victoria Gardens Birmingham 5pm, Government House Sheffield 5pm, town hall Bolton 12 noon-2pm, town hall Southampton 5.30pm, town hall Glasgow 3pm onwards, George Sq Edinburgh 1pm rally, 5pm protest, City Square Wales 4.30-6.30pm, Cardiff Senedd
WHEN THE England football team play their first game at the World Cup in South Africa on Saturday, it will be on land brutally stolen from the poor.
Prime minister David Cameron says there will be "decades of pain" as the Tories unleash savage spending cuts.
Israel’s propaganda machine has been working overtime to justify last week’s raid on the Freedom Flotilla humanitarian aid convoy to Gaza, in which at least nine people died.
The testimonies of people on the flotilla have blown apart Israel’s lies about what happened.
Fresh from its assault on the Freedom Flotilla, Israel targeted another aid ship last week.
The autopsies of the nine dead Turkish activists reveal that they were actively targeted, not hit by chaotic gunfire as Israel alleges.
Israeli forces are continuing their assault on Gaza. Israeli navy commandos killed at least four Palestinians on Monday of this week when they opened fire on a boat near the coast of Gaza.
Reports of repeated contact between the US and Israel in the run-up to Israel’s assault on the Freedom Flotilla give an insight into the sheer audacity of the attack.
