Liverpool Analysis Newswire Archive

14-03-2005 16:06

Pathfinder schemes – a path to corruption?

Pathfinder schemes are operating in some of our most deprived areas. Nominally they are about urban regeneration, in reality pushing up property prices for the lucky few and providing 'development opportunities' for property developers. Read more >>

11-03-2005 18:13

Another Liverpool council estate is privatised!

Another Liverpool Council Estate is about to slip quietly and without defiance into the private sector. This week plans were reported on Thursday 10th March in the Liverpool Echo (loyal propaganda agent for council housing privatisation over the past dacade) to push council tenants over to the ever expanding private housing market here in Liverpool. Read more >>

11-03-2005 11:09 | 3 comments

H O U S I N G - is still - T H E B I G I S S U E !

On Saturday 5th of March I found the following news item on TELETEXT ITV in the North West and it’s reproduced as I type copied it. I didn’t read about it in the local right wing rag the Liverpool Echo. (Liberal-Democrat controlled) Liverpool City Council is to spend £7,200,000 on private housing, £6000 on each, according to this news report, while it's own rent paying council tenants go without any improvements and backlog of repairs going back for years.
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02-03-2005 15:05

Terrorism Laws in Parliament

Find out the "Terrorism" laws that have been passed this Parliament, and every vote by every MP for or against the different measures. If your MP is seeking re-election you can ask them during the campaign to explain what they have done to protect your rights. Read more >>

20-02-2005 13:02 | 15 comments

BENEFIT CLAIMANTS ARE FACING MORE INTIMIDATION!

Note the following article on Sheffield Indymedia:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2005/02/304633.html

The above article was the first time I've seen anything at all on this issue, there are many people here in Liverpool and elsewhere on social security benefits both in work and out of work, disabled, sick or retired. Many claimants have had the pressures put upon them, I for one have been getting letters pressuring me for months and months into accepting payment firstly into a Post Office (P.O.) card account. Read more >>

14-02-2005 14:28 | 3 comments

pathfinder schemes

In the name of urban renewal, creating sustainable communities, social cleansing on a vast scale is being pushed through unchallenged. Read more >>

13-02-2005 22:26 | 3 comments

Films to hound the anarchist consciousness

The Newcastle-based Projectile collective has brought together a nice pack of films that will hound your consciousness and tickle your tail. The festival featured films ranging from serious documentaries such as An Injury To One to tragic-comedy The Cockettes. Most of the film showings on the Saturday and Sunday had seats full if not people sitting in the aisles. Read more >>

09-02-2005 14:20

Proletarian Revolution and Civil Law

A Revolução Proletária – proletária não apenas em termos de forças que a desencadearam, senão também, em termos de objetivos perseguidos pelas massas que a executam, de modo instintivo ou consciente –, possui como meta realizar, cedo ou tarde, a substituição do sistema burguês-individualista pelo sistema socialista-coletivista. Read more >>

29-01-2005 12:41 | 5 comments

Join your local campaigners against Biometric identification, new ID card

Everyone knows about the danger: not the seemingly harmless bit of plastic in your wallet –but a massive and intrusive database that fundamentally changes the nature of UK Citizenship.
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27-01-2005 16:55 | 6 comments

XXI Century film showing

XXI Century, the mammoth seven-part underground documentary is coming to Liverpool, and so is its director! Read more >>

14-01-2005 07:32 | 3 comments

5. World Social Forum Brazil: Lula, ATTAC and the Crisis of the "Another World"

Das 5. Weltsozialforum findet von 26. bis 31. Januar in Porto Alegre, Brasilien, statt. Er wird ein guter Moment für eine Bilanz der Vorschläge sein, die in den letzten Weltsozialforen vorherrschend waren und bis heute immer noch sind, d.h. im Wesentlichen: Die Humanisierung des Kapitalismus. Read more >>

08-01-2005 16:55 | 8 comments

MP Accountability: Shaun Woodward - New Labour - St Helens Sth

An open letter to Shaun Woodward, New Labour MP for St Helens Sth. In which I examine his actual parliamentary record (support for Iraq War, Tuition Fees, Foundation Hospitals and ID cards), how he (mis)represents his electorate, ask some awkward questions and urge change.
Go to www.PowerToThePeople.org.uk research your MP, name & shame and contact them for an explanation. With the General Election looming, publishing their actual (and most probably poor) record could have a real impact. Hold 'Em To Account!! Read more >>

28-12-2004 17:47

Halton Borough's "Dick" Tregea UK's AmbASSador to the World!

Halton 'Burrocrat' "Dick" Tregea has been recognized as jackass-of-the-year for his grief incompassion in relation to Peter Robinson's quest to honour the dying wish of his "lovely son", Sean by keeping two small solar lights on his grave. But "Dick" and his masters at Halton 'Burro' Council think not, citing concerns about "Blackpool illuminations." Read more >>

22-12-2004 14:24

Demonstrations agains Lula da Silva Paralyse Brasília

On 25 November 2004 Brasília was shaken by two demonstrations against the government Lula. This year will end under the sign of street mobilizations to end and points out at the same time to the perspective of a fierce 2005. Read more >>

16-12-2004 16:03 | 20 comments

Shed No Tears For Blunkett 1

In the wake of Blunkett’s overdue resignation a picture is being painted, with himself as the primary artist, of ‘an honourable man brought low by love’. The career of this vain, arrogant, conceited individual was not brought to an end because of Blunkett’s private life, something he has done his utmost to deny the rest of us, but because he is a liar and corrupt, neither of which are new.
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12-12-2004 16:34 | 6 comments

Update (Ukraine)

The observations and re-actions of various ‘experts’ to events in the Ukraine amuse some analysts. Did anyone expect the US not to intervene, do leopards change their spots? Have we all forgotten that the US government is merely a pawn of Corporate Capitalism? If it wasn’t an orange scarf it may just as well have been pink – let’s not miss the ‘forest for the trees’ (and in some cases the veins of the leaves.) Read more >>

04-12-2004 04:31

Condoleeza Rice

All of this would be amusing but for the fact that people are dying. We would all like to ask Condy (her oil tankers notwithstanding) just what price Iraqi Oil against the life of one Iraqi child or one US citizen? Never in the history of the USA has it spawned a more dangerous group of clowns than George W and his neo-cons. Read more >>

02-12-2004 12:48 | 3 comments

Trade Unions. Their Past, Present and Future

Wenn die Gewerksgenossenschaften notwendig sind für den Guerillakrieg zwischen Kapital und Arbeit, so sind sie noch weit wichtiger als organisierte Kraft zur Beseitigung des Systems der Lohnarbeit selbst. Read more >>

19-11-2004 23:39 | 14 comments

Foxhunting Banned - class war, coming soon, to a street near you

This article suggests the way ahead against the landowners and other assorted aristos who make up the Countryside Alliance. Reversing the normal expectation of political legality this is deeply subversive. Read more >>

18-11-2004 09:35 | 1 comment

WAR, CAPITALISM & ELECTIONS: An Interview w STEPHEN GOWANS – Canadian Essayist

Read ANGIE's – regular and erudite Indybay-IMC (Indybay.org) Poster fm Canada – incisive interview with Canadian political essayist STEPHEN GOWANS. Angie has scored a previous interview with Israeli pro-Palestinian human rights activist Ran Ha Cohen. We await similar interviews with Uri Avnery and others who speak directly to issues of global justice – as well as global resistance to imperialist racism and the elite capitalists' rapaciousness that will gamble ALL our lives. We, finally, are at an especially critical world cross-roads: we can choose illumination or illusion, enlightenment or inconsequence, mutual respect or profligate death. Read more >>