Liverpool Social Struggles Newswire Archive

02-04-2007 22:12 | 1 comment

Privatising the NHS

A private GP practice on Merseyside. Private health care for the paying patients only. Can we afford to let it happen? Read more >>

01-04-2007 23:13

Rivers Of Life - Dams Of Death

All round the world, rivers are under threat from greedy developers, keen make money building dams and barrages - yet these dams and barrages have a terrible impact both on the environment and on the people who live nearby, and need vast amounts of money to keep them going. Read more >>

29-03-2007 04:55 | 4 comments

Spinning the truth - the BPP and the 'White Nationalist' (nazi) Forum

More porkies than people... Read more >>

28-03-2007 14:42 | 1 comment

Reparations Group Demans Truth from Barclays on Slavery Link

New York/USA -- Considering the 200th anniversary of the British closing of their Transatlantic slave trade, it is fitting that attention is focused on existing British institutions that participated in the practice. There are enormous online resources that help with the task of identifying these parties, and the Restitution Study Group, a New York non-profit, wants to share some with the public. Of particular note in their research of British archive and museum records is information on two prominent slave trading bankers, Benjamin and Arthur Heywood, brothers from Liverpool, England who founded Arthur Heywood, Sons & Co. (Heywoods Bank) in 1773, which merged into Martins Bank in 1883, which merged into Barclays Bank in 1968.
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27-03-2007 21:29 | 5 comments

Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets Campaign Update

Here is the March 2007 update from Justice For Shrewsbury Pickets, campaigning for an inquiry into the 1972 imprisonment of Ricky Tomlinson and Des Warren, as described on tonight's BBC documentary with Tomlinson. Read more >>

27-03-2007 13:07 | 3 comments

N9S rebrands itself - though it's still nazi

What a difference a name makes - one at all Read more >>

13-03-2007 15:17 | 2 comments

Sharon Ebanks scraping the nazi barrel for NNP candidates

Sharon Ebanks' New Nationalist Party (NNP), desperate to find candidates to stand in the forthcoming local government elections in May, seems to be frantically approaching all and sundry - even the outcasts of the nazi world - to find enough people to stand in order to give her already ailing party (dubbed the 'Dodgy Desperados' by her friends) some credibility on the far-right. Read more >>

06-03-2007 11:28

International Women's Day in Liverpool

We are going to have a protest outside George (Asda's clothing line) in Liverpool City Centre on Thursday for International Women's Day - since its mainly women workers who produce the cheap clothes for ASDA, Tesco & Primark. We'll meet at 4.30 outside George (or 4pm at the basement) and stay until around 6.30 (or closing time, if that is sooner). Read more >>

05-03-2007 05:36 | 3 comments

England First Party's new chairman is convicted electoral fraudster

Typical Read more >>

04-03-2007 16:23 | 4 comments

Students Occupy Runcorn College!

Over fifty Sixth Form students at Riverside College, Runcorn, Cheshire reacted against the removal of I.T. facilities from the college and the atmosphere of secrecy in which the ill-disguised asset strip was carried out. Read more >>

28-02-2007 21:01 | 3 comments

ID Cards & The Myth of Terror

Thursday 8th March, 7pm, at the Liverpool Social Centre,
in the basement at 96 Bold Street (entrance is next door to the
bookshop) - all welcome Read more >>

27-02-2007 13:51

Rally in support of striking mental health workers

Mental health workers in Manchester are striking over cuts and the threat of privatisation, a rally to support them has been called as a part of the TUC's national NHS Together Day of Action. Read more >>

26-02-2007 20:09 | 2 comments

NHS Under Attack

On the Keep Our NHS Public demo in Liverpool on Thursday, 22nd February, anarchists handed out a bulletin showing an anarchist perspective on the NHS attacks. The text is below, or you can print-up the prettier version with graphics and photos and stuff. Get the word out, and come to the founding meeting of the Merseyside Anarchist Group on Thursday 1st March, in the basement by News From Nowhere, from 7.30pm. Read more >>

26-02-2007 15:07 | 5 comments

BNP's Richard Barnbrook gets TB

Oops Read more >>

24-02-2007 22:32

Save the NHS! Organise for Resistance!

About 200 people marched from the Royal Liverpool Hospital in Prescot Street to the William Brown Street fountain on Thursday 22nd February, showing their anger at government plans for the National Health Service. Read more >>

17-02-2007 21:59 | 4 comments

council sensitivity over Liverpool housing policy

An article I wrote for Big Issue in the North recently on Liverpool's "slash and burn" approach to regeneration triggered a furious response from the council. The piece, published last week, told the stories of residents in Anfield and Granby who are against plans for mass demolition and the way they are being carried out. I include the response published from Cllr Marilyn Fielding, executive member for housing, several weeks later. For more information see my websites. Read more >>

15-02-2007 16:24 | 3 comments

prince charles visiting toxteth town hall

Royalty/Charlie boy visiting Toxteth Town Hall in April 2007
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12-02-2007 12:07 | 1 comment

Politicians watch out: young peo;ple can ask tricky questions, too.

Young people are often dismissed as inarticulate thugs. But most are caring individuals, who think deeply about the issues facing their communities and the wider world. sadly, in most cases, their ideas are ignored. But a media training course in Halton is giving them a chance to be heard by the people in power. Read more >>

11-02-2007 08:22

Families Against Corporate Killers in Liverpool

A group of about twenty people attended a meeting about the Families Against Corporate Killers (FACK) campaign on Thursday, 8th February, at the Liverpool John Moores University building on Clarence Street.
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11-02-2007 00:54 | 2 comments

Torchlit March for NHS 22 February Liverpool

Help us fight for our Health Service
Thursday 22nd February
Assemble 5:30 pm Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Torchlit march to St. George's Plateau

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