UK Repression Newswire Archive
Plumber exposes city fraud terrorist police used to cover up the story
04-11-2010 12:53
Wife has affair board member of city of London reinsurance giant, guy carpenter llc.Husband learns of affair and board members misuse of company funds
Husband home, office and company accountants raided by counter terrorist directorate of city of London police. Local MP informed by borough commander of terrorist dawn raids.
Warrant for Arrest (for how long?) - while Seeking Asylum in France
04-11-2010 10:52
Maurice insists in being arrested only for the purpose of going to court and meeting the judge who convicted him in his absence, despite his request for adjournment. But the Court is far from co-operating. Here's his account with questions to the Court.The NHS has asked their solicitors about the release of the medical records. The Judge and the Police's solicitors are meeting in Maurice's absence.
Is the only purpose for solicitors to run up bills, while Maurice not only suffers physically, but is also made to suffer the anguish of having to be arrested for an indefinite period?
The Police are only doing their job. And the lawyers who tell the Law Enforcers what their job is, don't care, do they...
Musheir Al Farra speaks at the Sheffield Humanist Society Meeting
04-11-2010 00:21
Conflict in the "Holy Land".
Musheir Al Fara, Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign
What is the reality of the situation in Israel/Palestine? How did the ongoing ‘troubles’ come about and to what extent is
religion responsible for the conflict affecting the "Holy Land"?
Dublin students demo rows with cops and attacks Dept of Finance
03-11-2010 19:11
Riot police attacked students in Dublin today with dogs, armoured vehicles and horses after the students protesting against government cuts occupied the Department of Finance and threw eggs at the Dail.ME Sufferers banned from giving blood
03-11-2010 18:03
ME sufferers are now banned from blood donation but are the only group banned who receive no medical treatment for their condition. They say that the ban is due to a new Retrovirus discovered in their blood.
Medialens: WikiLeaks - The Smear and the Denial - Part 1 - The Smear
03-11-2010 15:17
“Journalists don't like WikiLeaks”, Hugo Rifkind notes in The Times, but “the people who comment online under articles do... Maybe you've noticed, and been wondering why. I certainly have.” (Hugo Rifkind Notebook, ‘Remind me. It's the red one I mustn't press, right?,’ The Times, October 26, 2010)Rifkind is right. The internet has revealed a chasm separating the corporate media from readers and viewers. Previously, the divide was hidden by the simple fact that Rifkind’s journalists - described accurately by Peter Wilby as the “unskilled middle class” (
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/dec/10/comment.pressandpublishing) - monopolised the means of mass communication. Dissent was restricted to a few lonely lines on the letter’s page, if that. Readers were free to vote with their notes and coins, of course. But in reality, when it comes to the mainstream media, the public has always been free to choose any colour it likes, so long as it’s corporate ‘black’. The internet is beginning to offer some brighter colours.
Afghan Voice Forum 21/11/2010 Brighton
02-11-2010 18:05
Nationwide shut down of Vodafone stores
31-10-2010 19:03
21 Vodafone stores across the country closed. Vodafone claim their unpaid £6 billion tax is an urban myth. Vodafone claim they always pay their taxes. £7 billion cuts in benefits to the poor. £6 billion unpaid tax by Vodafone. We can all do the sums and we do not like the resultScreening of Sanjay Kak's 'Jashn-e-Azadi' on Kashmir + film-maker QnA
31-10-2010 11:33
Revelations of “systemic” torture by British military
30-10-2010 23:30
The Guardian newspaper has obtained access to training manuals that detail the interrogation techniques used by British military personnel in Iraq. In an exclusive report published Monday, the newspaper quotes from the documents, which are described as an “Introduction to Interrogation and Tactical Questioning”.Lib Dem Ministers Complicit in Torture
30-10-2010 22:53
London: 12th UFFC Annual march against custody deaths and abuses
30-10-2010 21:53
London Critical Mass October ride.
30-10-2010 10:56
12th annual protest against deaths in custody - Saturday 27 October
29-10-2010 18:14
Saturday 30th October 2010
Assemble Trafalgar Square 12 noon.
Survival website under cyberattack
29-10-2010 13:18
Website down after bombardmentViolations of Workers Rights in the Philippines in 2010
29-10-2010 12:53
The Third Revolution? Worker and peasant resistance to the Bolshevik government
29-10-2010 10:54
Dump Veolia Protest at the Natural History Museum, London 23 Oct 2010
29-10-2010 07:47
Home Office stop-and-search figures hide evidence of systematic discrimination
28-10-2010 15:38
French Students Mobilize: "Sarkozy, You're Screwed, The Youth Are In the Streets!"
28-10-2010 11:07
From our correspondent in France http://www.internationalist.org/