Nationalise Utilities Now
Yesterday British Gas announced it was raising prices by 35%, raising what the press refer to as ‘fears of fuel poverty’. The reality of fuel poverty in the colder parts of Britain, particularly the North and Scotland, is the prospect of elderly people and low income earners freezing to death in their homes this coming [...]
Poet Laureate of Pale
Radovan Karadžić, the Poet Laureate of Pale — what a serendipitously macabre coincidence the name of the de facto ‘capital’ of Republika Srpska turned out to be — is in a cell in the Hague. It is quite comfortable according to reports. There has been a frenzy of marshy, gaseous emissions threatening a micro climate disaster [...]
Mahabad Demonstration for Kamangar
The NCRI website reports on a demonstration is support of Farzad Kamangar, the Iranian teacher and union activist on death row:
This morning hundreds of residents of the northwestern city of Mahabad demonstrated demanding the release of Farzad Kamangar, a Kurdish political prisoner, from jail.
The mullahs’ local official attempted to contain the demonstration by dispatching agents [...]
Elizabeth, Hilary & John Belong to Darlington
Elizabeth Kiwunga Rushamba and her children are still detained and still facing removal to Uganda where Elizabeth is in grave danger for speaking out against human rights abuses. The Home Office is expediting her deportation, which will prevent the submission of her case to the European Court of Human Rights if the current Judicial Review [...]
Against Chávismo
The microsect Workers’ Liberty is prone to scatty sectarian outbursts (how do you spell ‘jealousy’?) and general dottiness — revolutionary poetry anyone? However, we find little to criticise in their adoption of Orlando Chirino’s characterisation of Chávismo as a ‘bourgeois’ and ‘Bonapartist’ political current, which is undemocratic and suppresses independent workers’ organisations.
The Socialist Party’s and [...]
