Tag: protest
Chagos IslandS Community Association
MEETING & FILM – Saturday March 15, 5pm @ International Student House, 229 Great Portland Street, W1 (next Great Portland St tube) speakers include: John...
60 Sri Lankan Soldiers Killed By Tigers
LIBERATION Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Operations Command in Mannaar told TamilNet on Tuesday that 60 Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were killed...
Dr No Becomes Dr Go
BY JOHN COULTER IRISH POLITICAL JOURNALIST WITH the former Dr No of Unionism ‘Rev Ian Paisley’ now becoming the self-confessed Dr Go, Irish political commentator...
UK SOCIAL CARE IS A ‘SOCIAL DISGRACE’ says GMB union
THE GMB said yesterday that social care in this country has become a social disgrace, as it objected to Lord Hanningfield’s membership of a...
Bush defends waterboarding and torture
US President, George W Bush, last Saturday revealed the inseparable connection between imperialism and atrocities when he vetoed Congressional legislation that would have...
Pirapaharan Pays Tribute To Tna Mp Sivanesan
TAMILNET reports that the leader of the Liberation Tigers, Velupillai Pirapaharan, on Saturday, paid tribute to the slain Jaffna District Tamil National Alliance MP...
NO POLYCLINICS! SAVE OUR SURGERIES! – demand Rugby GPs
‘No polyclinics! Save our surgeries!’ shouted over fifty Rugby GPs, medical staff and supporters during a town centre protest on Saturday. Carrying banners and wearing...
COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT IS A WAR CRIME! – says UNISON’s Prentis
AN Israeli soldier was killed and another injured on Thursday during renewed clashes with Palestinian fighters near the Kisufim military post east of Al-Qarara...
Political Messiah Quits!
By Irish political journalist JOHN COULTER Rev Ian Paisley, a political messiah to Protestant Unionism, has shockingly quit as both Stormont First Minister and leader...
ISRAEL COMMITTING WAR CRIMES – say MPs and union leaders
OVER 200 people, including MPs and union leaders, took part in an emergency demonstration opposite parliament yesterday, to condemn the Israeli massacre of Palestinians...
20 Years Since The Gibraltar Killings
By Irish political journalist JOHN COULTER THE three unarmed Provisional IRA members shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar two decades ago were allegedly sacrificed...
Abbas forced to break all contacts with Israel. Now restore national...
PALESTINIAN President, Mahmud Abbas yesterday belatedly suspended the ‘peace negotiations’ and other contacts with Israel until the Israeli ‘criminal aggression on Gaza stops’. With 95...
‘WE DON’T SUCCUMB TO THREATS AND MILITARY INTIMIDATION’ says Hezbollah MP
HEZBOLLAH MP Hassan Fadlallah on Friday condemned the sending of a US warship, the USS Cole to the eastern Mediterranean. He said Hezbollah would not...
GAZA READY TO EXPLODE – warns Hamas leader
HAMAS leader Dr Usamah al-Muzayni gave a wide-ranging interview to the Gaza newspaper ‘Filastin’ last weekend, warning that ‘the continuation of the siege of...
Net Closing In On Iraq War Criminals
THE Brown government has been told by the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, to release the minutes of two cabinet meetings, from March 7th and...
BRITAIN UP TO ITS NECK IN EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION – says ex-SAS...
AT a press conference called by the Stop The War Coalition in London on Monday, ex-British SAS soldier Ben Griffin read out the following...
Remploy Factories Being Closed
THE LABOUR government is proceeding with its disgraceful closure programme of Remploy factories for disabled workers. Twenty-eight of the 83 Remploy factories around the country...
Israel Fears Palestinians Will March On Border
Israel strengthened its forces along the border with the Gaza Strip last Sunday, fearful that thousands of Palestinians may march on the border against...
Britain involved up to its neck in rendition
LAST week, the House of Commons was told by the Foreign Secretary, Miliband, that it had been deceived in numerous statements by Labour government...
British Gas – 500% Profits Rise
‘This greed has got to be stopped and the government should step in now and levy a windfall tax on the company,’ said UNISON...
Diego Garcia used for ‘extraordinary rendition’
Foreign Secretary David Miliband yesterday admitted that on two occasions, both in 2002, UK overseas territory Diego Garcia had been used for US rendition...
Close Down The US Base On Diego Garcia!
FOREIGN Secretary Miliband yesterday admitted in the House of Commons that previous government denials that the island of Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Islands...
EQUITY MUST FIGHT ARTS CUTS! – call a national march urges...
AXED children’s theatre workers expressed outrage at Culture Secretary Andrew Burnham’s proclamation last Wednesday that ‘every schoolchild will get five hours of culture a...
‘IF ISRAEL WANTS WAR IT CAN HAVE IT’ – declares Hassan...
THE leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, on 14 February warned Israel that it will respond to the killing the previous...
Miliband’s ‘national interest’ is an ‘imperialist interest’
FOREIGN Secretary Miliband declared to his audience, right at the start of his Oxford College speech last Tuesday evening, that ‘we’ must not let...
HUGE RISES IN COST OF LIVING – make unions fight for...
Retail Price Index (RPI) inflation, which includes mortgage interest payments, rose to 4.1 per cent last month, from 4 per cent in December. However even...
PUT BLAIR ON TRIAL! – say parents of UK soldiers killed...
Former Prime Minister Blair and his war cabinet should be put on trial for war crimes, said the parents of soldiers killed in the...
Ruling Class Snob Attacks Builders
CONSTRUCTION union UCATT, has reacted with fury after their memorial to construction workers killed in the building of London was criticised on The...
‘SUSPEND EU-ISRAEL TRADE AGREEMENT!’ – demands Labour MP at Downing Street...
OVER 800 people attended the latest fortnightly picket outside Downing Street on Saturday to demand: ‘End the siege on Gaza!’ Thousands have taken part in...
‘STOP SUPPLYING SRI LANKAN MILITARY’ – demand marchers to Indian parliament
TAMILNET reports that ‘several hundred activists of the Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam (PDK) marched towards the Indian Parliament on Wednesday morning demanding the Indian government...
Hands Off Iraq’s Oil!
‘Hands Off Iraqi Oil’, read the banner of protest outside the Middle East Energy Conference in London yesterday. At the conference was Iraqi puppet Oil...
‘Stop The Ethnic Cleansing Of Tamils’
A 3,500-strong demonstration organised by the Tamil Youth Organisation (TYO) marked the 60th anniversary of the end of British colonial rule in Sri Lanka...
Britain Must Stop The Killing Of Tamils
THE Tamil Youth Organisation (TYO) mobilised over 3,500 supporters of the struggle of the Tamils in a lively and colourful demonstration outside Downing Street...
Furious Parents Fight Plans To Close After-School Clubs And Play Centres
FURIOUS parents and staff belonging to Unison public sector union have forced Crawley Borough Council (CBC) to issue letters to parents to deny it...
MASSACRE OF THE ARTS! – Arts Council withdraws grants from 184...
A total of 184 arts organisations have had 100 per cent of their funding withdrawn, Arts Council England announced yesterday. While it said that 17...
DRIVE THE PRIVATEERS OUT OF THE NHS! – demands demonstration of...
LOCAL residents, trade unions and doctors have joined together to fight the privatisation of the National Health Service in Tower Hamlets. Two hundred people staged...
Over 1 Million Iraqis Have Died Since The US Invasion
MORE than one million Iraqis have died because of the war in Iraq since the US-led invasion of the country in 2003, according to...
HANDS OFF OUR GP SURGERY! – 200 residents & GPs protest...
‘PATIENTS before profits, defend the NHS!’ shouted around 200 demonstrators outside St Paul’s Way General Practice yesterday, opposing the take-over of the doctors surgery...
EGYPT ATTEMPTS TO RESUME FRONTIER CONTROL – as Israeli forces invade...
Egyptian security forces attempting to resume control of the Egyptian frontier with the Gaza Strip began using barbed wire to close gaps in the...
DEFEND TOWER HAMLETS NHS – GPs & residents to protest at...
THERE is an anti-privatisation protest to defend the NHS taking place outside St Paul’s Way Medical Centre tomorrow from 2pm to 3pm. GPs and...
‘AN IMMEDIATE HALT TO ALL OF THE CUTS!’ – Theatre workers...
CLOSURE-THREATENED theatre companies are lobbying today’s meeting of the Arts Council in the Roundhouse in Camden, North West London today at 1.30pm, demanding a...
FREE GAZA NOW! FREE GAZA NOW! – shout 5,000 demonstrators on...
‘FREE Gaza now! Free Gaza now!’ was the cry of 5,000 mainly young people who swelled a mass picket opposite Downing Street on Saturday,...
Arts Council To Decide On Cuts
A CLOSED Arts Council meeting is being held in the Roundhouse in Camden, north west London on Tuesday at 1.30pm, to ratify swingeing ‘death...
Step Up The Struggle To Keep Chase Farm Open!
TUESDAY’S mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital heard that the decision to close the hospital’s A&E, Maternity and Paediatric Departments has been ‘put on...
Police don’t serve the public–they oppress it
ON the eve of yesterday’s 15,000 strong Police Federation demonstration through London, against the staging of their 2.6 per cent pay award, reducing it...






















