UK Newswire Archive
Calais - Pas-de-Calais - France - Europe [9/2005]
26-09-2005 22:49
Trois ans. Trois années bientôt que le camp de Sangatte a été fermé en grandes pompes médiatico-gouvernementale. Trois années qui sont passées vite, mais qui n'ont pas changé le bourbier calaisien. Terre de passage, le Calaisis, première porte vers l'Angleterre, connaît depuis maintenant une décennie l'arrivée de personnes migrantes, réfugiées et isolées. Très vite, avec ces personnes, sont réapparues des pratiques de contrôle policier qu'on pensait oubliées, car trop connotées historiquement, du moins en Europe et en France. Mais il a vite fallu se rendre à l'évidence que notre vocabulaire devait s'enrichir des mots "rafles", "traque", "chasse" ou "déportation".Urgent Prisoner Solidarity Requested
26-09-2005 22:47
New Denunciation From Political Prisoners Currently Being Held In A French Prison:Mark Barnsley Visits Derry's Bogside
26-09-2005 22:37
Some photos of Mark Barnsleys Talk in Derry, IrelandBrick Lane London E1 Area Community Against the Crossrail-hole Bill
26-09-2005 21:50
Stop Crossrail hole BillHere we go again - G8 Finance Ministers to meet in London on December 10th
26-09-2005 18:49
G8 Finance Ministers to meet in London on December 10thRead the extract below
After8 - Post-G8 Live Music Weekender in Derby
26-09-2005 18:16
Saturday 8th October sees a host of Derbys finest rock bands taking to the stage for an evening of diverse music whilst the Sunday 9th October provides a day packed full of Hip Hop talent, including DJs, MCs, Beatboxing, Freestyling, Breaking and Graffitti art.
An After 8 compilation CD featuring all bands involved shall be available throughout the weekend.
For more info and directions check out www.after8.givingabitback.net
Peace and protest
Jonezy
G8 / No-ID Benefit
26-09-2005 17:54
InTheSameBoat Productions presents a live music benefit at the Sumac Centre, for the G8 and N0-ID campaigns/Report of anti-war demo in Madrid with photos
26-09-2005 15:43
Oxford Autonomous Actions
26-09-2005 14:40
Meet at 12.00 noon Carfax Tower for a follow up anti-arms trade action. Bring bikes or money for bus fare and noise-making implements.
civil disobedience washignton DC
26-09-2005 13:55
this is from the washington site... i found it!LOL
hunt saboteurs back in action
26-09-2005 13:48
hunt saboteurs are back in action once more as hunts around the country continue to hunt despite the ban. hunting still occurs and huntsabs are out to stop the killing.PC PRO REVEALS FALSE CLAIMS USED IN CHILD PORN INVESTIGATION
26-09-2005 13:46
Tuesday, June 21, 2005: The UK’s biggest ever crackdown on Internet paedophiles has been driven by misleading intelligence, causing dozens of innocent people to be falsely accused, according to PC Pro magazine.War Resisters to Shut Down Pentagon on Monday
26-09-2005 13:39
WAR RESISTERS TO NONVIOLENTLY SHUT DOWN PENTAGON ENTRANCES, MON., SEPTEMBER 26, 7:00 A.M.Conference Demo
26-09-2005 13:18
Monday 26th*BRIGHTON, outside the Conference Centre, 6.00 pm*
We will be outside the Conference centre from
earlier on (ring *07903316331*),
hopefully with the Greenhouse, and leaflets for
delegates - but will aim for
max impact early evening. Anyone who can come and
help much appreciated.
There may be journos looking for an angle on this
story....so we need to be
there to give them one !
Peace Tent to Peace Square on International Peace Day
26-09-2005 13:15
Uzbekistani Repression Benefit
26-09-2005 13:08
Cuba under threat from US aggression...
26-09-2005 13:04
For 44 years Cuba has suffered attempted invasions, terrorist attacks and a vicious and illegal economic blockade by the US. Despite this, the country's many achievements, including its renowned health and education services, have survived. Whatever your views on Cuba, its people do not deserve such aggression. I urge all readers to call on the British government to separate itself from such threats by sending a clear message to the US and the Cuban people that it would not support US military action against the country.I (along with others) am dedicated to the idea that every country has a right to self-determination. That when a people, such as the people of Cuba, decides to kick out a dictator, as they did to Batista in January 1959, they have a right to organize their freedom anyway they want.
The 'free-loading' capitalist class of the United States don't see it that way. They think that Cuba is theirs - just as they think that every country in Latin America and everywhere else is theirs to plunder.
Whenever a North American capitalist is in trouble, the United States sends its gunboats and armed soldiers to strong-arm anyone who doesn't like being exploited by some American businessman. That's the American way!
Prior to the 1959 revolution Cuba was used as a 'sporting house' and a 'playground' for North American tourists. Brothels, gambling casinos, big hotels, plantations, and factories were all owned and controlled by American businesses. Cuban men, women and children were there to be controlled and to labour so that the exploiters could send their profits to banks within the United States (USA).
Batista, the dictator of Cuba at that time, acted like a hired gun of the United States. He made sure that any Cuban worker who even thought of organizing a union disappeared, rapidly. His job was to keep the Cuban people in their place, on their knees, for the North American capitalist class... Then something happened.
Fidel Castro, Che Guevara (an American Doctor) and other young Cuban rebels decided to try and take back Cuba for its people. And they did - with the support of the overwhelming majority of the Cuban people, who wanted to get the foreign capitalists out of their country. On New Year's Day, 1959, the July 26th Movement took their country away from the 'Yankee' imperialists.
Then they set about taking back their land and turning it over to the Cuban peasants and workers. They closed the brothels and gambling casinos, took the plantations and factories out of the hands of North American robber barons, and stopped the northward drift of profits.
Then, for all Cubans, they set up free medical care, free public education through college, and free childcare. They began to build housing, roads, and airports and nationalized the banking system. They made Cuba a nation of proud, educated and rightly militant people.
Imperialism (UK & USA) hates that kind of thing as it could catch on in other countries within the Western Hemisphere. If one group of workers threw out their capitalist government, then every other small country could do likewise. Even workers within the imperialist countries could get wise and start thinking about a real democracy within their own countries!
Can you imagine the working class voting for their own hours and wages? Can you imagine workers voting to build hospitals and repair schools instead of bombs and tanks?
And the working class voting against bombing Panama or Iraq, saying they had nothing to gain by murdering men, women and children in another country?
Instead, the workers of imperialist countries vote for puppets who go to Washington D.C. and work for their bosses. They have the choice of voting for Candidate #1, who will do what he or she is told to do, or Candidate #2, who will do what he or she is told to do.
Every once in a while there comes Candidate #3, who promises to work for the "people" and then does what he or she is told to by the ruling class. That's the kind of "democracy" in practice in the United States.
In Cuba, workers bypassed that kind of 'democracy' and set up their own kind of government. In fact, when the United States invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban people voted with their guns and drove out the invaders. That was democracy - an event very similar to our own "Boston Tea Party" on Dec. 16, 1773 - a struggle that eventually eliminated control by the British monarchy.
Once again, the U.S. imperialists are on a rampage against Cuba. They have tried everything to choke the life out of that country. Now they want to tighten their fingers around the throat of the Cuban people.
Please go to your search engine and key in Cuba Solidarity Campaign or Hands Off Cuba.
Thanks so much for reading.
Effective Protest In The 21st Century
26-09-2005 13:03
Convincing the public through protest is no longer viable with our media being what it is. Protest should now be geared towards results not opinion.