The British MI5 secret service colluded in torture and the Labour government is lying about it. A 33-year old man from Manchester has said that he had three fingernails ripped out after hours of being beaten and whipped.
There is an institution that sacks trade unionists and allows its workers to stand for the fascist British National Party (BNP) in elections. It’s not a union-busting private equity company, but the government’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
One year ago, as Tony Blair’s premiership was reaching its fag end, there was a new spirit of optimism among Britain’s union leaders and MPs on the centre left of the Labour Party.
We can beat the BNP
Like many residents of Camden, north London, we were horrified when two local newspapers, the Ham & High and the Camden Gazette, printed an advert from the Nazi British National Party (BNP).
The battle lines across British society could not have been drawn more starkly. At Grangemouth in Scotland refinery workers this week stood up for all of us when they confronted a billionaire oil baron out to rob their pensions.
It was the day the workers reminded everyone of their power. This was not supposed to happen in Gordon Brown’s Britain. For years we have been told class politics is dead and that we should all accept the wonders of the free market.
Uniting under the banner of "Save Our Livelihood", around 7,000 British Chinese, Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Turkish catering employers, workers and supporters gathered in Trafalgar Square in central London last Sunday to protest against Britain’s draconian immigration rules.
Anyone who opposes racism and wants to live in a peaceful multicultural society needs to join with us to counter the threat posed by the British National Party (BNP) in next week’s elections.
