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 [...]
Pope Go Homo
The Pope, Joseph Ratzinger, a man appointed to his job for life by cardinals who were themselves appointed by the previous Pope(s) has again apologised during an address in Australia for the ‘pain and suffering’ caused by the ‘misdeeds’ of priests — that is the systematic rape and abuse of children by clergy and the [...]
Teacher sentenced to death in Iran
A 33 year-old Kurdish teacher and trade unionist has been tortured and sentenced to death by the Iranian Supreme Court:
Kamangar was arrested in Tehran in July 2006 and since then has been held in various detention centres in Kurdistan, Kermanshah and Tehran. He was charged with Moharebeh, which literally means “enmity against God,” and with [...]
