Tag: broadcasting
Tamil Youth Picket Lord’s Test Match
TAMIL youth activists in Britain took their ‘Boycott Sri Lanka Cricket’ campaign to the Lords cricket grounds on Saturday, the third day of the...
‘PATIENTS TORTURED’ – at a charge of £3,500 a week
A STORM of anger has erupted following the broadcast of Tuesday night’s BBC Panorama programme, which revealed terrible abuse of vulnerable adults at a...
‘NOTHING WILL CHANGE – WHETHER THEY SEND HELICOPTERS OR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS!’...
THE Libyan prime minister gave an hour and 55 minute-long news conference relayed by Al-Jamahiriyah TV at 11.35 gmt last Thursday. Al-Mahmudi said...
‘Pause’ A Cover For Destruction Of Hospital Care
BY ANNA ATHOW BMA COUNCIL MEMBER ON April 4th, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announced ‘a pause’, a two month ‘listening exercise’, in implementing the...
‘BRING DOWN THIS GOVERNMENT WITH A GENERAL STRIKE’ – YS editor...
It is young people who are leading the struggle. Young people demand a future and the only way is socialism. The Young Socialists stand...
‘BREAK THE INTERNATIONAL SILENCE ON TAMIL GENOCIDE’ – urges British Tamils...
THE Colombo High Court allowed on Wednesday an application by the accused Sarath Fonseka, retired Commander of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA), to reconsider...
Yemen Fury Over Tear Gas Attack On Protesters
Protests resumed in Yemen on Monday after a fruitless meeting with Gulf mediators and late night demonstrations turned violent in Sanaa. The streets of Sanaa...
500 universities & colleges strike! – to defend pensions and fight...
MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at around 500 colleges and universities across the UK took strike action yesterday against changes to...
Qatar And Uae Join Imperialist War On Libya
QATARI Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani, on Sunday, trying to defend his country’s participation in military operations against Libya, said the aim...
LIBYAN CEASEFIRE! – but imperialists proceed with war plan
Libyan Foreign minister Moussa Koussa yesterday announced: ‘My country will do its best to deal positively with this resolution’, in the wake of Thursday...
OPPOSITION LEADERS ARRESTED IN BAHRAIN CRACKDOWN – as Tunisians protest against...
THE Bahraini ruling class has arrested opposition leaders on charges including contact with foreign states and calling for the fall of the regime, said...
STUDENTS’ ROBBERY! – to repay twice their fees and loans
The University and College union (UCU) yesterday welcomed findings by the BBC, which it said shone a light on the real level of debt...
Students and universities under savage coalition attack
IN ORDER that the universities can have their budgets slashed and be privatised or closed, students are to be charged up to £9,000 a...
‘THERE WILL BE ‘BIG CHANGES’ IN EGYPT’S GAZA POLICY– Ambassador Yasser...
Egypt’s ambassador to the Palestinian territories Yasser Othman on Tuesday said there will be ‘big changes’ in Egypt’s policies towards the Gaza Strip. Othman told...
STOP the war say MPs and bring the Taleban into government
MPs on the House of Commons foreign affairs committee ran up the white flag yesterday when they declared in their report that peace talks...
IRAQ ‘DAY OF REGRET’ – Mass demonstration this Friday
Iraqi puppet prime minister Nuri Al-Maliki warned his cabinet on Sunday to shape up within 100 days or face ‘changes’, as protest organisers called...
ADAPT OR BE CLOSED! – warning to NHS hospitals
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson yesterday warned that many hospitals will face closure in the ‘new world’ of funding cuts and privatisation. Nicholson told...
Occupy To Stop Hospital Closures
THE Chief Executive of the NHS, Sir David Nicholson, had a stark message for hospitals when he told the BBC yesterday that they would...
VICTORY MARCH IN CAIRO – as civil war erupts in Libya
TENS of thousands of flag-waving Egyptians massed into Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday to celebrate the fall of strongman Hosni Mubarak and to pressure...
GETTING RID OF MUBARAK IS ONLY THE BEGINNING – Wasseem Wagdi...
Over 2,000 celebrated the ousting of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak at a rally in Trafalgar Square, central London, on Saturday organised by Amnesty International...
Mubarak ‘steps down!’ – swept aside by the revolution
President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and fled from the capital, Cairo. Vice-President Omar Suleiman announced on Egyptian state television yesterday afternoon: ‘In these grave...
The bankers’ man who is admired by Ms Le Pen!
LORD Oakeshott is the senior Liberal Democrat who quit their front bench in protest at the Tory-LibDem coalition’s decision to allow the bankers to...
US sends warships to Egypt
The US is sending warships, including one with 800 troops, and other military assets to Egypt as the revolution in the North African country...
1.5 MILLION IN TAHRIR SQUARE – Mubarak’s bags being packed
Millions of Egyptians converged on Cairo’s Tahrir Square and massed in the cities of Alexandria, Port Suez and Luxor yesterday, which they had dubbed...
MASSES REJECT MUBARAK ‘OFFER’ – ‘This is an opportunity for the...
‘THIS IS our revolution, Mubarak is a tyrant, not a president any more!’ said angry Egyptians demonstrating in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Tuesday. The chanting...
THUGS ATTACK TAHRIR DEMO – hundreds injured while Mubarak’s army looks...
TENS OF THOUSANDS of anti-Mubarak protesters in Tahrir Square, Cairo were attacked by pro-Mubarak thugs and plain-clothes police yesterday afternoon, as Egyptian Army soldiers...
‘MUBARAK, MUBARAK THE PLANE AWAITS’ – Egyptian masses tell president to...
Tens of thousands of defiant Egyptians occupying Cairo’s Tahriri (Liberation) Square chanted ‘Mubarak, Mubarak, the plane awaits’ on the sixth day of their people’s...
Egypt Masses Defiant
Tens of thousands of defiant Egyptian workers and youth yesterday remained in control of the centre of Cairo, during a sixth day of protests...
Students And Unions March Against Fees
TEN thousand workers and youth marched through the centre of Manchester to a rally in Platts Fields on Saturday, against the Tory-Lib Dem coalition’s...
Tuc Must Call A General Strike To Bring Down The Tory-Led...
THE TUC met yesterday afternoon to discuss pay and pensions and the planned mass demonstration and day of action on March 26 against the...
Coulson, Cameron tools of the Murdoch empire
THE resignation of Coulson yesterday as Prime Minister David Cameron’s Director of Communications, follows on, almost immediately, from the police being forced to re-open...
25 YEARS SINCE THE PRINTERS’ STRIKE – Part 2: Capitalist state...
NOT only the print unions got dragged before the Courts. In February 1986 the postal workers union (UCW) was hauled before the judge who ruled...
RISKY AND DISASTROUS! – warn health union leaders
The scale and pace of the government’s planned NHS ‘reforms’, combined with £20bn cuts, is ‘extremely risky and potentially disastrous, warned the leaders of...
Thousands Of Jordanians Take To The Streets As Tunisian Uprising Continues
Thousands of Jordanians took to the streets of Amman and other cities on Friday to protest against soaring commodity prices, unemployment and poverty, calling...
‘BE READY FOR THE MOTHER OF ALL BATTLES IN 2011′ –...
Members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) began a wage strike at mining recruitment company Teba Limited on Monday. The strike comes after...
Suffolk Council Rush To Sell Off Fire Control Centre
‘Without any prior public consultation, Suffolk county councillors have rushed through plans to sell-off the Ipswich fire control centre and get emergency fire calls...
Riot Police Attack Huge Athens Demonstration
A HUGE march of over 100,000 workers and students held in Athens last Wednesday afternoon, as part of a 24-hour general strike, was viciously...
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF GREEK WORKERS AND YOUTH MARCH on second...
Tens of thousands of school and university students and workers participated in profoundly anti-government mobilisations in all Greek cities last Monday. The demonstrations marked...
Personal budgets cutting care!
The personal budgets being introduced for social care are being used to implement the government’s spending cuts, charities warned yesterday. On November 16, Care Services...
STUDENT UPRISING AGAINST FEES –rocks the Tory-LibDem coalition
STAFF and students at the University of Reading held a special demonstration yesterday against government cuts to higher education. The lobby was organised by...
50 GP surgeries taken over
New private health company ‘The Practice’ has taken over ChilversMcCrea Ltd to form a group that now runs 50 GP practices in England and...
Strike Rocks Bbc!
Thousands of journalists across the BBC walked out at midnight Thursday in the first of two 48-hour strikes in protest at plans to devalue...
FBU Steps Up Action!
FBU General Secretary Matt Wrack has announced further London-wide strike action. The strike, which will take place from 10.00am on November 5th to 9.00am on...
Fight Tory class war programme – bring down the Coalition!
OSBORNE began his spending review speech yesterday by saying that: ‘Today’s the day when Britain steps back from the brink’. In fact, his speech represented...
AFGHAN PUPPETS IN TALKS WITH TALEBAN ‘FOR SOME TIME’ says Karzai
AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai confirmed that his administration has been holding unofficial talks with the Taleban ‘for quite some time’. ‘We have been talking to...