Mistaking the Second Month of Pregnancy for the Ninth
I’m going to make a prediction. The current wave of student anti-cuts protests and occupations, though inspiring to behold, have come too early to be the spark for those much anticipated wider protests...
View ArticleN Staffs Against the Cuts Press Release
Press release for immediate publication, Wednesday 1 December 2010 North Staffs Against Cuts, in association with the North Staffs Trades Union Council, is calling a public demonstration in Hanley on...
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Wanted for Tax Avoidance
SIR PHILIP GREEN Billionaire owner of the Arcadia Group of high street retail stores, Sir Philip Green, has become the latest target for the attentions of a growing movement to demand an end to tax...
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The Dialogue of Violence is Born
German philosopher and anarchist, Max Stirner, wrote that “the state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.” In terms of the relation of the individual to the state, Stirner,...
View ArticleJODY McINTYRE SPEAKS
Jody McIntyre, the political activist who was filmed being forcibly removed from his wheelchair by the police during last week’s student protests in London, and who was later the subject of a BBC...
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Tax Dodger Ads
The online and Facebook activist group, 38 Degrees, which emerged in response to the MPs expenses scandal last year, has succeeded in raising funds to place this ad in major newspapers on January 4th...
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The Nuclear Option
Business Secretary Vince Cable’s indiscretion in articulating his scathing criticisms of the Tories to two undercover Telegraph reporters tells us much about the shaky foundations which underpin the...
View ArticleThoughts on the Demo
Well, the first thing to be said is that it was huge, much bigger it seemed to me than the official figure of 250,000 given by the organisers and most of the press. When I arrived at the Embankment at...
View ArticleJohn Wight on Purification by Pain is Not an Economic Policy
The latest edition of BBC’s Question Time illustrated why Labour has yet to take political advantage of the deepening unpopularity of the Coalition and its agenda of swingeing cuts to the welfare state...
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35000 Protest in Manchester
from the BBC More than 35,000 people have taken part in a march through central Manchester protesting against government cuts. The TUC organised the March for the Alternative to coincide with the...
View ArticleRahman: an Injury to One is an Injury to All
The BBC yesterday reported around 61% of people supporting tomorrow’s massive public sector strike in defence of pensions It’s a pretty good figure considering the usual lies and distortions;...
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Futility Beyond Words
I thought it was worth re-posting this excellent article from the Morning Star, by George Galloway. George is standing as a candidate in the Bradford West by-election for Respect. What a mournful...
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End This Depression Now!
Ever since the recession spread through the global economy at the beginning of 2008, a debate between Keynesian and neoliberal economists on the best way to move out of recession and back into growth...
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Say No to Austerity – Join the Demonstration on October 20
Last night the PCS lit up Tory Party HQ with the message ‘No to austerity’ and the exhortation to join the TUC anti-austerity demonstration in London on October 20. Brilliant. The post Say No to...
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Tax Avoidance Protesters to Target Starbucks
Press Release UK Uncut UK Uncut continues to pressure Starbucks over impact of government cuts on women Over 44 protests across the UK planned for Starbucks stores this weekend, as public anger...
View ArticleThe role of PCS members in the bullying of benefit claimants
Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) are engaged in the widespread bullying and intimidation of benefit claimants in Jobcentres up and down the country. The evidence can no longer...
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