Life In Interesting Times
This week has been a week of anniversaries — the Bolshevik Revolution (91 years), Leon Trotsky (129 years), and the proclamation of the Freie Sozialistische Republik (90 years), the defeat of which by the reactionary forces of industrial and banking capital, set Germany on the course which unleashed unparallelled barbarism in Europe.
The latest desperate crisis [...]
Anti-immigration Minister Stunned
Yesterday a comrade from Manchester No Borders threw a ‘cream pie’ at the Anti-immigration Minister Phil Woolas, who was attending a debate at Manchester University. No Borders stopped Woolas and demanded to see his passport, then as he began to speak, a member ran up and hit him in the face with the pie. A [...]
Dungavel ‘Reform’
Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy has announced a scheme to end the detention of children at Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre in South Lanarkshire.
Under the £150,000 project, failed asylum seekers awaiting deportation would be housed in former council houses in Glasgow before being sent back to their country of origin.
No end to adult detention, removals, or continuing [...]
Woolas the Anti-racist
Immigration Minister Phil Woolas claims it was his commitment to anti-racism which led him to join the Labour Party when he was in his teens. How strange it is then, that his commitment to anti-racism does not extend to abjuring racist immigration laws. In fact he recently gave an interview in which he stated that [...]
Killing the Goose
Scenario:
A wealthy man opens his office safe and removes the title deeds to your house and those of others. He takes them to the casino to use as collateral and loses everything. He then arrives on your doorstep demanding cash from you to make good the loss — or you will be made homeless. Worse, [...]
