UK Newswire Archive
A Killing Wage
22-12-2001 15:45
The NHS has long maintained that a bad diet, low quality housing and poor education are the root causes of ill health and result in a massively overburdened health service. All of these factors come directly out of poverty. It is a terrible hypocrisy and a harsh irony therefore, that the NHS, the East Ends second largest employer, is allowing its workers to be paid slave wages. A health service that creates the ill health it cannot deal with? Only in Hackney.The Fire Then....The Paris Commune
22-12-2001 14:36
Article discussing the Paris commune and its relevence to the anti capitalist movementGovernor general of Australia in child abuse scandal cover up.
22-12-2001 14:17
The Queen's representative in Australia (Dr peter Hollingworth) was called on to resign after he was accused of ignoring a child abuse scandal in his previous job. Several witnesses told the court that Dr Peter Hollingworth, was informed of allegations against a Mr Guy during the time the school was backing Mr Guy's innocence.D14: International studentsmeeting in Brussels
22-12-2001 11:38
Convoy hit in Afghanistan
22-12-2001 06:06
Conflicting reports of an attack on a convoy of personel destroyed in Afghanisatn near the town of Khost. US says it contained "leadership" whilst not mentioning Al-Qaeda or Taliban. Reprts from civilians in the area appear to suggest that it contained local tribal leaders on their way to the inauguration of the new government in Kabul.US Olympic Torchbearer to Run Barefoot to Protest Nike
22-12-2001 02:35
Asbury Park, NJ, December 21, 2001 - Educating for Justice (www.nikewages.org) announced today that its co-Director, Leslie Kretzu, who has been chosen to run in the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Torch Relay, will run barefoot as a show of solidarity with Nike's overseas factory workers.hey - the government wants to hear our views on globalisation...
22-12-2001 01:57
can it be worth participating in their discussions - or would we just be feeding them new rhetoric?NY against the world economic forum
22-12-2001 00:51
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massacres in Colombia - why?
22-12-2001 00:36
On the 12th of December, the paramilitaries start a new offensive in Naya River. On the 20th, a communities lawyer gets arbitrarily detained. Is there any connection?A TODO EL MUNDO / TO THE WHOLE WORLD
21-12-2001 23:29
Reposted from IMC Argentina.
Warren style commission to Investigate 9/11
21-12-2001 23:19
With the billions spent on the CIA, NSA, FAA, Air Guard, Air force and NORAD, on September 11, 2001 I found myself immediately questioning how four passenger airliners could have gone off course and not created a veritable storm of responseAnarcho-Primitivism is a racket
21-12-2001 23:16
Anarcho-primitivism is a racket or gang. It competes with other ideologies in the market place of ideas.Cops kick it off in Brixton
21-12-2001 21:05
Heavy-handed riot police kick off the 'Movement for Justice' march in Brixton, which was held to protest the killing of 4 people by police in Brixton in recent months.BRIXTON DEMO ATTACKED BY POLICE-NOW 8.50 FRIDAY
21-12-2001 20:57
As i write there is an anti racist/anti deaths in police custody march on Stockwell Road-Brixton that was peacefull when suddenly 4 riot vans and other police try and break up the demo.Brixton Justice March blocked by police - violent arrests
21-12-2001 20:47
Latest situation from Brixton 8.30pm FridayWhat was Dickens trying to say ?
21-12-2001 19:26
"A Christmas Carol" is probably the most falsfied piece of classic literature.Jamal Death Sentence Reversed--Mobilize Labor/Black Power to Free Mumia Now!
21-12-2001 18:57
The PDC has released the following statement in response to the reversal of Jamal's death sentence. However, the legal decision allows no opportunity for his innocence to be proved. We have no faith in the 'justice'of the capitalist courts--only class struggle by the multi-ethnic working-class can free Mumia now!Israeli settlers attack Uk nationals as roadblocks removed
21-12-2001 18:05
For a second day, fifty Uk/US campaigners and a similar number of Palestinians from the International Solidarity Movement dismantled several roadblocks near the West Bank City of Nablus. Two of the group were assaulted by Israeli settlers.Arrest as Israeli roadblock removed
21-12-2001 17:16
