UK Newswire Archive
Sussex under attack
23-07-2013 10:35
An array of threats is facing the people of Sussex, their health and their countryside. And a special meeting on Thursday July 25 will focus on four of them - fracking, road-building, airport expansion and GM food.HSBC Notts Uncut Demo supports Foodbank
23-07-2013 08:55
12.00 Saturday 20th July 2013
Nottingham folks gatherered at the Left Lion and proceeded to the HSBC bank in Clumber Street. The protestors being concerned, as banker's continue to be rewarded with bonuses and subsidies, and tax dodging is rife (£25 billion is lost annually), there’s been a 170% increase in the number of people relying on food banks in the UK. We need to demand that the government stop propping up the people who caused this crisis and put an end to the need for food banks.
Passers by contributed to the NG7 Foodbank.
UKUncut statement:
As one of the UK’s ‘big four’ banks, HSBC continues to benefit from a promise that taxpayers will never let it fail, because it would be too damaging to the UK economy.
The money taxpayers have loaned to these banks comes at a very low interest-rate. And this interest-rate subsidy is disproportionately largest for the biggest banks, such as HSBC.
So whilst it did not need a direct government bail-out following the financial crisis in 2008, HSBC- and all other high street banks- owe their survival to public financing.
This also means that bonuses paid to senior bank staff and dividends to institutional investors are, at least partly, paid for by the taxpayer. Stuart Gulliver, the new chief executive of HSBC, recently received a bonus of around £9million - which could pay for the annual salary of over 400 nurses.
Want more evidence that we’re not ‘all in this together’? HSBC is one of the big banks that will avoid paying billions of pounds worth of tax on future profits by offsetting losses it suffered during the financial crisis against its tax bills.
Then there’s HSBC’s profiteering from the NHS. A report by the Times in 2008, found that HSBC made almost £100million from managing NHS hospitals where contractors ‘charge taxpayers inflated bills for simple tasks, such as £210 to fit an electrical socket’.
Moreover, according to a recent BBC investigation, HSBC used a legal tax loophole to divert millions of pounds of NHS money into an offshore ‘tax haven’. In 2010 a company set up by HSBC made more than £38m profit from its 33 PFI hospital-building schemes and paid £100,000 in UK tax - less than half of 1% of the profits. Describing such practices as ‘scandalous’, former Oxford MP Dr Evan Harris called for new rules to stop NHS money being sent to tax havens.
Earlier this year HSBC told its shareholders about plans to quit London for Hong Kong. We doubt anyone will be bidding them a tearful goodbye.
UKUncut:
UK Uncut is a grassroots movement taking action to highlight alternatives to the government's spending cuts
http://www.ukuncut.org.uk
HSBC
http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/targets/8
Notts Uncut:
http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/actions/1063
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ALAN LODGE
Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK
Email: tash@indymedia.org
Web: http://digitaljournalist.eu
Member of the National Union of Journalists [NUJ]
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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.
It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"
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More horse killed at graveyard au track.
23-07-2013 07:29
uk horse trainers are being encouraged to run their horses in Melbourne in the coming months but there is one track where they should not go.North East far-right activists named and shamed
22-07-2013 21:16
North-East BNP Regional Organiser Anita Cooper approves of gunning down muslims
22-07-2013 19:06
South Africa’s Dirty Cops: Licensed to Kill
22-07-2013 12:30
Last week Inigo Gilmore’s documentary, South Africa’s Dirty Cops, was screened on British television. It deals with the torture and murder that have become common at the hands of the South African police and includes an examination of the two most high profile cases of political violence on the part of our police in recent years – the murder of Andries Tatane in Ficksburg in April 2011 and the Marikana Massacre in August last year.
The scale of the Marikana Massacre, in which thirty four people were killed, made it a unique event in post-apartheid South Africa. But the Tatane murder was just one of the many murders of protestors by the police in recent years. There is no properly researched body count but a quick internet search throws up media reports of nearly forty people having being killed by the police during protests since the killing started on a university campus in Durban in 2000. The Tatane murder became so well known for the simple reason that it was captured on video and screened on national television.
F.B.I. descends on Australia with 20,000 U.S. troops for Talsiman Saber 2013 exe
22-07-2013 06:39
*August 19th. Rockhampton trial of Graeme Dunstan for ploughshares disarmament action on Tiger Attack helicopter at Talisman Saber 2011**VID (4 mins) - "Rocky Tiger Ploughshares" action undertaken taken by Bryan Law R.I.P. & Graeme Dunstan
http://tinyurl.com/czqu8af
Anti-fascists report from Liverpool James Larkin march
22-07-2013 00:50
Palestinian Anarchists in Conversation: Recalibrating anarchism in a colonized country
21-07-2013 20:17
“I’m honestly still trying to kick the nationalist habit,” jokes activist Ahmad Nimer, as we talk outside a Ramallah cafe.SchNEWS : EDL in Brum update 21/07/13
21-07-2013 19:40
Not the best showing for anti-fascism yesterday in Birmingham, a couple of dozen autonomous anti-fascists actually made the effort to confront the EDL at their muster pub. Meanwhile the UAF rally ¾ of a mile away attracted a mere two hundred.UG#655 - Unite and Conquer 3 (Social and Personal Consciousness of Self & Other)
21-07-2013 15:13
Rail Disaster in Canada : The law of Profit is the Criminal!
21-07-2013 14:45
Conscientious Objectors: no to the Universal Soldier
21-07-2013 13:44
EDL bring their love of law and order to Birmingham
21-07-2013 10:40
According to Tommy the EDL were…..
“protesting after six Birmingham men were jailed last month after admitting to a plot to attack an EDL rally in Dewsbury, Yorkshire”.
So let’s be clear…. They used to complain because (they claimed) the law didn’t prosecute Muslims. Today they’re protesting because the law DID prosecute some Muslims!
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http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-23390232
Opening the Box: Sarah Shourd on Humane Release for Herman Wallace
20-07-2013 17:47
The Future Isn’t Working
20-07-2013 13:56
And yet, at the same time, the imperative to work remains universal. Hundreds of thousands of people are being forced to participate in workfare schemes in return for their Jobseeker’s Allowance. And with the new Universal Credit system, it is proposed to extend this so-called ‘conditionality’ even further, with mandatory 35 hours a week job searches, monitored remotely by Universal Jobmatch software. Even the unemployed are compelled to ‘work’.
Where Am I To Go? London Roma Evicted
20-07-2013 09:38
JOIN PROTEST ACTION TO MARK 2 AUGUST PORAJMOS COMMEMORATION
EDL In Brum
20-07-2013 08:15
The EDL have rarely fared well in and around Birmingham. Will today be any different?