Liverpool Social Struggles Newswire Archive

27-05-2004 16:30 | 4 comments

Defend the Right to Protest

DEFEND THE M&S PICKET!
DEFEND THE RIGHT TO PROTEST!
THE APPEAL DATE HAS BEEN SET FOR OUR FIGHT AGAINST MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL'S SUPPORT FOR THE RACIST APARTHEID STATE OF ISRAEL, COME AND PROTEST OUTSIDE THE COURT... Read more >>

27-05-2004 15:07

New Labour Smears

Dirty and disappointing election tactics Read more >>

20-05-2004 00:08 | 9 comments

Here we go again - BNP get more free promotion...

Here we go again, recently Le Pen visited Manchester and the Anti-Fascists held a protest, thus helping turn a secret visit into a photo opportunity and media event. Read more >>

18-05-2004 10:42 | 9 comments

ALTERNATIVE VOTES IN LIVERPOOL - ie NON-MAINSTREAM Pro-CAPITALIST PARTIES!

REPOST - LEAVING OUT PROMOTION OF INDIVIDUAL PARTIES, CONTINUE THE DEBATE BUT DON'T PROMOTE A PARTY, YOUR PARTY, A BIRTHDAY PARTY, OR EVEN A HIERARCHICAL 'RAVE' PARTY... (-; Read more >>

15-05-2004 17:00 | 12 comments

Freedom of speech and censorship...

So someone mentions the local elections in Liverpool article on "ALTERNATIVE VOTES", and we inform one another of who's standing where ie the non-mainstream parties, ie the ones without megabucks or media/press backing. Yes so now I know there is a Communist standing, people know there are 6 not 5 SLPers standing, then of course we know there is Democratic Socialist Alliance, then we know there is a party called 'Liverpool Labour Community Party', OK so it's taken off the main page, which I disagree with, then it's taken off the Liverpool Newswire as if it didn't exist, so tell me something what makes Indymedia any better than the capitalist/establishment media/press who deny working class people coverage of our daily lives and struggles, like Thomas McKay who's facing eviction, who deny working class organisations fair and balanced coverage.

The article "Alternative votes", so tell me what makes Liverpool Indymedia any better than the Liverpool Echo / Daily Post, or the BBC or ITV? One of the fundemental UN human rights is the right to freedom of speech, providing it doesn't encroach on the rights of others, ie racist propaganda, anti-muslim, anti-catholic or anti-protestant, sexist, homophobic, ageist, or even that one our wonderful bourgeois (middle class) society chooses to overlook "CLASS PREJUDICE", so tell me Liverpool Indymedia, you block, censor and deny freedom of speech to parties who aren't part of the capitalist system, sure they're hierarchical, just like the family is heirarchical, ie a mother and a father, head of the household. Just like Indymedia is heirarchical, at least I can complain to the press complaint commission if I'm bothered, I can complain to the Liverpool Echo's editor, or I could organise a protest and encourage the press/media to give a issue coverage. So tell me Liverpool Indymedia who are the shadows in the dark deciding what postings get censored, and which one don't get censored??? Who do I appeal to, what's his/her name, etc... Read more >>

05-05-2004 16:23 | 1 comment

Des Warren's Funeral Today

Des Warren - Shrewsbury Picket 1972
The key to my cell

A real working class hero and Socialist
10-10-1937 to 24-04-2004 Read more >>

04-05-2004 08:37 | 9 comments

Des Warren died April 24th, his funeral this Wednesday 5th May

Des Warren died on April 24th, his funeral is this Wednesday 5th May 11.15am at Blacon Crematorium Chester. Read more >>

02-05-2004 13:48 | 4 comments

Justice For Tenants - Fighting for working class people in Liverpool!

A tenants' direct action campaign group!

The tenants in Liverpool and Merseyside are sick of the injustices. The councillors whether they're Labour or Liberal-Democrat simply don't care about throwing us out into the private sector they're not tenants themselves! Councillors are giving away our land, our homes, our streets, our neighbourhoods and our communities for 'FREE' to undemocratic and unaccountable private landlords it is 'our' public property not for them to give away through rigged ballots or no ballots at all. Read more >>

30-04-2004 22:03 | 2 comments

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - By Robert Tressell

Have you read 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' by Robert Tressell? If you have then you'll want to see how faithful this play is to the book. If you're touched by the story then read the book. If you're working class then this story nearly a century old will strike a chord with you. Read more >>

14-04-2004 17:53 | 3 comments

Death on Camera... Christopher Alder - murdered by racist police!

On 1st April 1998 Christopher Alder, an ex-paratrooper,
was dragged unconscious into a Hull police station.
Read more >>

10-04-2004 20:10 | 1 comment

Dissent! Resistance Against the G8: Gathering in Manchester

A Network of Resistance Against the G8: The G8 (Group of Eight most industrialised nations) Summit is coming to Britain in the Summer of 2005. In past years, everywhere they have tried to meet they have been met with a massive response from the world's social movements. Now, in Britain, a network of groups and individuals is emerging that hopes to resist the Summit, and build a lasting movement against capitalism.

The next Dissent! gathering will take place on the 24th/25th April in Manchester. Come
along and get involved. Read more >>

09-04-2004 14:58 | 5 comments

1st May 2004 berlin kreuzberg heavy riots expected

mobilisation for the revolutionary 1may demo in berlin Read more >>

08-04-2004 04:38 | 1 comment

Global War - Each Region Picks Effective Tactics- Violence For Most of US

I am an AN-Nihilist strategist and an expert
witness. Can you convince me that I should not be
a painter of dreams and a builder of bombs?

I am an Enemy Combatant because i speak and
i command some moral sense against GW Bush, Read more >>

05-04-2004 18:35 | 3 comments

Regeneration - more like community destruction?

New Heartlands Prospectus (CD/0085) indicates that, within the Sefton area, during the 15 year lifetime of the Pathfinder Initiative, some 1,921 dwellings will be demolished out of a total of 22,500 properties, some 8.5% of the total stock. Read more >>

01-04-2004 18:54

Today in Palestine the 31st of march

briefing Read more >>

23-03-2004 20:48 | 12 comments

Post card from Liverpool - What the tourist board wouldn't want tourists to see!

Granby Street in 2004, it's over twenty years now since the well known Toxteth riots. While many saw the riots as a social uprising against repressive and racist policing, the accompanying photo-montage shows that the community around Granby Street in Liverpool 8 is looking more run down in many ways than it did after the 1981 riots. Granby Street is just one example of the insidious gentrification of Liverpool city centre which is clearing out working class people, a process which is now spiraling outwards at break neck speed. Read more >>

22-03-2004 14:58 | 1 comment

1984/5 Miners Strike - Burning Issues, play by Banner Theatre on Merseyside

Burning Issues
A new touring production to mark the twentieth anniversary
of the 1984/5 Miners Strike.

Thursday, March 25: Citadel Arts Centre, St Helens: 8.00pm
For more details ring 01744 735436

Friday, March 26: The Picket, Hardman Street, Liverpool: 8.00pm
(for the National Union of Journalists annual conference)
Read more >>

21-03-2004 16:40 | 5 comments

ESF: deporting the poor from cities

After Rotterdam, Amsterdam also plans a ban on low-income inhabitants: London and other cities are moving towards a similar strategy. The London ESF is a showplace for creative social entrepreneurs - the kind of people who should replace the poor, according to this philosophy. Read more >>

29-02-2004 14:14

Palestine: Life Under Occupation (Public Talk by Anne Gwynne)

Anne Gwynne is a 65, a retired bank manager and former teacher, now a journalist for The Pacifica Radio Network in the USA and writes for all the important political websites and has reported for the BBC and for other print media. Read more >>

25-02-2004 21:13 | 18 comments

Working Class Community Action - Against threatened Post Office closures...

SLP activists Pat Goodwin along with West Derby CSLP secretary, Kai Andersen, went out to collect signatures on Communication Workers Union (CWU) petitions opposing the threatened closure of local post offices in Liverpool. We spent a couple of hours outside Old Swan Post Office mid day Tuesday 24th February and outside the Town Row Post Office in West Derby mid day Wednesday 25th, in total 18 post offices are under threat see the list below. The petitions were quickly filled in on what were two bitterly cold days. Read more >>