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  • BIG BROTHER : You Can’t Picture This ??? (VIDEO)
    12 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    UK USED TO BE A FREE COUNTRY
    Thousands of UK residents have signed a petition against a law preventing photography and filming in certain public places. Yet this all turned out to be a misunderstanding, and no such law was proposed. Rajesh investigates the way we view the lens and the way it views us.
    http://current.com/items/88856223_you_can_t_picture_this
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-19511055.html

  • Sexual harassment claim at UK embassy In IRAQ
    9 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent
    British officials were today accused of turning a blind eye to an Iraqi woman’s complaints that she suffered sexual harassment while working in the UK Embassy in Baghdad. The unnamed woman was allegedly sacked last year after she refused to perform sexual favours for an employee of a private contractor that ran the embassy canteen.
    “I suffered this aggression under the British flag,” she said. “I felt like I had been destroyed.”
    A (…)

  • UK : Power Can’t Shape Truth Forever : New Labour is Dead
    7 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    New Labour has suffered a crushing defeat. The Blair project of promoting and implementing right-wing policies in the knowledge that traditional working class voters would remain solid died on 1 May 2008. Labour’s vote in the local elections in dropped to 24 percent, a point below the Liberal Democrats and twenty points less than the Conservatives (44 percent). Gioven the scale of the catstrophe, It seems unlikely that Gordon Brown can win the next general election
    Awestruck by Margaret (…)

  • Solidarity with Grangemouth Workers !
    28 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Solidarity is proud to offer our 100% support to the oil refinery workers at Grangemouth.
    For the “crime” of refusing to accept the tearing up of their pension scheme they have been vilified by the Ineos management and sections of the press in Scotland. In a disgusting campaign the oil workers have been accused of “holding the country to ransom” and of being “hell bent on strike action.”
    In reality it is the Ineos Company led by billionaire James Ratcliffe who are responsible for this (…)

  • U.K. Teachers’ Pay Strike Closes Thousands of Schools
    24 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    U.K. Teachers’ Pay Strike Closes Thousands of Schools
    By Thomas Penny
    April 24 (Bloomberg) — Thousands of schools across England and Wales are closed today as the U.K.’s biggest teaching union stages a one-day strike over pay, the first in 21 years.
    The National Union of Teachers, which represents almost 200,000 of the 435,000 teachers in England and Wales, called the strike after the government offered a pay rise of 2.45 percent, which the union says is below the rate of inflation. (…)

  • Brown Faces Growing Revolt Over U.K. Tax Increase
    24 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Brown Faces Growing Revolt Over U.K. Tax Increase
    By Gonzalo Vina
    April 23 (Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s government faces a growing rebellion against a plan to raise tax on 5.3 million of the poorest families as seven more Labour lawmakers signed a resolution opposing the measure.
    At least 46 parliamentarians from the ruling party signed an amendment to the Finance Bill seeking a delay the introduction of the tax change, according to Frank Field, who proposed the (…)

  • Tradesman show
    11 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tradesman show
    The proposal by Joe Carter of having a new type of universities league table, reminds me of going shopping. I have learnt from such excursions how a tradesman details all the features of the object of desire, in an effort to sell it to the customer. He or she lists, one by one, all the features to let you know that the object of desire is in reality what you really wanted already.
    I have spent many days just looking at and listening to tradesmen/showmen listing all the (…)

  • Round the crown
    2 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The lastest opening of UCU (University and College Union) to more ’extreme views’ will not convince many people.
    UCU has suddenly become concerned with marketization of British education and is calling with a loud voice for an exchange of ideas. Indeed, it appears to be a well-directed drama in which many recognizable voices have suddenly raised concerns on the marketization of British education and its deleterious end as a commodified field which will saturate and decline with the decline (…)

  • Europhobia and Where it’s Taking Us
    24 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Alf Garnett: Patron Saint of British Europhobes and Bigots
    This essay was written as a counterblast at the Europhobes on the UK 911 Truth Forum.
    As I’ve been away from this thread whilst dealing with the Europe issue elsewhere, I thought it would be a good idea to summarise what has been going on.
    It started with my publishing the European Left’s Athens Declaration in order that forum readers could be given an insight into an alternative Europe which they would otherwise miss given the (…)

  • CLASS WAR’S OPEN LETTER TO THE STOP THE WAR COALITION
    16 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    This Saturday sees a large anti-war march in central London, with the Stop The War Coalition marking five years since the largest demonstration in British history - against invading Iraq.
    Below is Class War’s open letter to the STWC leadership:
    Five Years On - Why Are We Still Marching
    IF MARCHING CHANGED ANYTHING THEY’D ABOLISH IT
    Back in 2003 the Stop the War Coalition had two tactics to prevent war in Iraq: marching from A to B and then going home, and marching from B to A and (…)