Defend The Four Campaign
Four members of Unison who distributed a leaflet critical of union leadership and what they allege is a lack of internal democracy, have been banned by a Unison disciplinary committee from holding office in the union for 3-5 years. All four are members of the Socialist Party. The witch-hunt is reminiscent of the ‘Loony Left’ expulsions of [...]
Sri Lankan Executions
Britain’s Channel4 News has broadcast video obtained from Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka. The shocking footage shows what appears to be Sri Lankan government forces summarily executing bound, blindfolded and naked Tamil prisoners near Kilinochchi. There are many more bodies lying around, all of whom look to have been shot in the head. JDSL [...]
Costantina, You Are Not Alone
The following is from a paper circulated by Greek feminists about the vicious acid attack on Costantina Kuneva, General Secretary of the Janitors Union (PEKOP-All Attica Union for Janitors and Home Service Personnel).
On the 22th of December 2008, in Petralona, an old working class neighborhood of the city of Athens, Bulgarian immigrant worker Costantina [...]
Indefinite Detention
The Sri Lankan government’s propaganda attempts to shroud Sinalhese-supremacist genocide in a cloak of respectability by claiming ’shared victory’ in the civil war for Sinhalese and Tamils, are exposed as cynical lies by the continuing detention of Tamils over three months after the ‘end’ of the war. Sampath Perera reports that the Sri Lankan goverment [...]
Gog Magog
If there was remaining doubt that George W Bush was ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’, former French President Jacques Chirac says Bush told him why Iraq must be invaded.
Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East…. The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled…. This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use [...]
Employer Offensive Against Workers
A German factory worker has been summarily dismissed for ’stealing’ 0.014 cents (less than one-seven thousandth of a euro) of electricity, charging his mobile phone, after previously being docked half an hour’s wages for taking a photograph of the machine he worked on to show to his young son.
Sheffield Council Supports Asylum Seekers’ Right To Work
From NCADC:
Sheffield Council is calling on the Government for asylum seekers to be given the right to work in the UK
Sustainable Communities Act 2007
Under the rules of the *Sustainable Communities Act 2007, the Government has a duty to review proposals from all local authorities who have opted into the scheme, and Sheffield people are ready [...]
