As Scotland gears up for the G8 summit there has been a huge build up in momentum for the protests in Edinburgh and Gleneagles.
Tony Blair has completely caved in to George Bush over the key issues of debt, aid and climate change — even before the G8 leaders fly in to Scotland for their summit.
"The problems of Africa are very complex. Aid just gets swallowed up in corruption." That argument, from the Daily Telegraph, has been repeated in various forms in the last week.
‘The G8 summit is here on our doorstep — to ignore it would be irresponsible. To march against it is not irresponsible, contrary to recent media reports.
GMB backs the protests Members of the GMB union meeting at their national conference in Gateshead this week voted unanimously to back protests at the G8 summit.
Last spring Tony Blair had a breakfast meeting with the private companies trying to muscle in on the NHS.
Trade union members at the Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS trust returned a unanimous vote of no confidence in the trust’s executive directors at an emergency meeting last week.
Around 200 people protested outside the Bethnal Green fire station, east London, on Tuesday morning.
"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds." Marcus Garvey, put to music by Bob Marley
In a military crackdown hundreds of Pakistan Telecom Corp Limited (PTCL) workers have been arrested across the country. According to the PTCL Workers Action Committee, 1,500 have been arrested since Saturday 11 June, when the government announced that the telecom sell off will start on 18 June.
BBC workers, who struck and took many programmes off the air on Monday of last week, have forced management to offer concessions to its plans to slash 3,800 jobs.
