UK Newswire Archive
The Art of Remembering: An Open Letter to Secretary Rice
11-05-2007 11:55
The problem is when you have too much power you begin to think with your muscles. You are like a wounded bull in the china-shop that is Middle East. Whatever you touch, wherever you intervene, something is broken, something is ruined. Perhaps at some point you have to STOP and think of a way out without inflicting much more damage to yourself and those around you.Until you learn to respect other peoples' right of self-determination and until you abandon your language of intervention, force and threats against my country, no number of visits to art galleries will solve our problems.
BNP Lose Another Councillor
11-05-2007 10:32
It appears that Mark Leat the Longton North BNP councillor on Stoke Council has jumped ship.Join the PDC contingent at the 17 May protest: Free Mumia Abu-Jamal now!
11-05-2007 10:20
FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL! ABOLISH THE RACIST DEATH PENALTY!
A protest has been called for Thursday 17 May, the day oral arguments will take place in Mumia Abu-Jamal’s habeas corpus appeal in the US Court of Appeals. The Partisan Defence Committee is building a contingent for the protest. Join the PDC contingent under the slogans:
Mumia Abu-Jamal is innocent! For class-struggle defence to free him now! There is no justice in the capitalist courts! Abolish the racist death penalty!
Thursday 17 May, 6.30 pm , Grosvenor Square , London
(nearest tube: Bond Street or Oxford Circus)
Nuclear Warhead Convoy Secretly Passes Through Chilwell, Nottingham
11-05-2007 09:21
It has come to light that in the early hours of Thursday 10th May a convoy carrying nuclear warheads secretly passed through the Stapleford and Chilwell area of Nottingham. The vehicles were spotted driving into the Chetwynd Barracks in Chilwell at 6.30am for a rest stop. Heading for the Royal Naval Armament Depot (RNAD) in Coulport, Scotland, the convoy was spotted along the M1 and also the next day as it continued its route along the east coast and along the Edinburgh Bypass. According to a spokesperson for Nukewatch UK, who keep an eye on nuclear convoys around the UK, the route hasn't been used since the early 90's. She also mentioned that no convoys have been spotted entering the Chetwynd Barracks and it might be an indication of the convoys starting to use the Chetwynd Barracks for rest stops.
The convoy passed through dense populated areas in Stapleford and Chilwell before and after its rest stop at the army base on Chetwynd Road, Chilwell. According to campaigners each lorry weighs approx 44 tonnes and can carry up to 2 ready assembled nuclear warheads, which can contain up to 8 kg of plutonium and uranium each. Each of the modern warheads has the capacity of creating 8 times the impact of that of the bombs used in the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by America in 1945. The convoy was spotted leaving Burfield Atomic Weapons Establishment, 50 miles North of London around 12.30am on Thhursday morning. At Burfield AWE the warheads and explosives get assembled into working nuclear weapons. There were people stationed along the route from Stirling to Coulport attempting to resist the convoy. Read report.
Links: Map of location Chetwynd Barracks | Nukewatch UK | Nottingham CND |Nuclear Warhead Convoy Routes | Video: UK nuclear warhead's on the move, November 2006 | Nuclear Warhead Convoy on the road today (report from Edinburgh)
Bilderberg in 2007 - introduction and report (audio)
11-05-2007 08:04
This is a must listen if something like the Bilderberg Group interests you. Someone from Radio Dialect in Bristol interviewed freelance journalist Tony Gosling, who has been researching the activities of the Bilderberg Group since 1993.
Arrests in Barcelona against the squatter movement
11-05-2007 03:56
On 23 April, 2007, Javier Mazas and Peter Gelderloos were arrested during the police response to a small demonstration organized by the Assamblea de la Okupacion (Squatters Assembly) on La Rambla, in Barcelona.The Great Betrayal of the British People, by the art of misdirection
11-05-2007 00:42
Nuclear Warhead Convoy on the road today
10-05-2007 23:51
Redder Faced Army
10-05-2007 22:39
In the distraction of the USA destroying democracy worldwide we seem to be ignoring what we once called a super-power.Germany: Raids against G8 opponents
10-05-2007 21:37
"Operation aimless" by Federal Supreme Court prosecutors triggers even more mobilization capacity for G8 protestsPress release by the persons concerned
Likely Historical Significance Of The War In Iraq
10-05-2007 20:28
A MIDDLE EAST TURNAROUND?This struggle is not over, it has just begun...
10-05-2007 20:25
Bath Uni tells Nazi BNP to fxxk off!
10-05-2007 18:46
Today, Bath University reversed its decision to allow dribbling nazi fuckwit Nick Griffin to speak on campus.University halts BNP speech plan
10-05-2007 18:37
BNP leader Nick Griffin has been blocked from making a speech at a university meeting amid fears over security.Presidential Candidate: Senator Reid was Right, War is Lost
10-05-2007 18:11
Reid is now opposing the Iraq War because the U.S. is losing; he initially supported the war and backed the invasion. The war is another imperial adventure by the U.S. and there is a growing divide, by those supporters of U.S. imperialism, that a continued war is weakening U.S. imperialism.The War on Free Expression
10-05-2007 17:40
The struggle to save our First Amendment rights.Palestinian Army of Islam must show good faith by releasing journalist
10-05-2007 17:26
"The Palestinian Army of Islam, which has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of BBC journalist Alan Johnston, must show good faith and release him immediately," declared Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, GUE/NGL Chairman of the EP delegation for relations with the PLC, following the release of a video by the Al Jazeera network in which the Palestinian Army of Islam takes responsibility for the kidnapping.Advice for Hessle's party victims.
10-05-2007 17:19
It has come to our attention that the police are collaring various individuals the consider to be part of the 'riot' in Hyde Park last weekend. This is a cynical attempt by West Yorkshire constabulary to protect themselves against charges of brutality. By making arrests they are seeking to justify their over-the-top actions and win better publicity for themselves in the face of videos being released onto the internet showing their actions for just what they are.
