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| MS000121 (edit) | Youth strike for climate change across Britain | Ceren Sagir | 15 February 2019 | THOUSANDS of schoolchildren across Britain walked out of their classes today to demand immediate action against climate change. Organisers from Youth Strike 4 Climate called for a change in the attitude towards the “ecological emergency” and demanded a reform in the national curriculum to accurately inform pupils of the climate disaster. Protests took place in over 60 cities, according to organisers, including Brighton, Cambridge and London | Yes | Morning Star | 2019-02-15 10:25:03 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| MS000124 (edit) | Former miners warn the government: Hands off our pension funds | Peter Lazenby | 15 February 2019 | EX-MINERS have gathered more than 100,000 signatures in a petition calling on the government to stop raiding their pension funds to the tune of billions of pounds. Former miners from South Wales, protesting over the rip-off, will take the petition to Downing Street on March 6. The Tories struck a deal with pension fund administrators following the privatisation of the coal mining industry in 1994, which meant the government would underwrite any losses the pensions’ investments suffered in the future | Yes | Morning Star | 2019-02-15 10:29:44 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| MS000126 (edit) | Plans to reform rail tickets ‘won’t halt rip-off prices | Peter Lazenby | 18 February 2019 | PLANS to reform the way rail passengers buy their tickets will do nothing to curb privateer operators’ price rip-offs, rail union RMT said yesterday. The Rail Delivery Group, which represents profiteering rail operators, announced yesterday that it intends to change the current chaotic ticketing system. Currently passengers are often unable to buy a single ticket to travel from A to B, but instead have to purchase a selection of tickets to get the cheapest deal | Yes | Morning Star | 2019-02-19 6:29:45 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| MS000128 (edit) | Extinction Rebellion hold 'disruption march' outside London Fashion Week | MS | 17 February 2019 | CLIMATE demonstrators blocked roads outside London Fashion Week today to protest against the “unsustainable” industry. More than 100 campaigners joined the Extinction Rebellion group’s disruption march as they urged fashion brands to tackle a global “ecological emergency.” Demonstrations began when a small crowd rallied outside Victoria Beckham’s morning event at the Tate Britain and blocked fashion week cars travelling to the show | Yes | Morning Star | 2019-02-19 6:33:39 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| MS000129 (edit) | Funding pledge for parks ‘will not solve crisis’ | MS | 18 February 2019 | A GOVERNMENT announcement of £13 million for parks is not enough to reverse “chronic underfunding,” critics warned yesterday. Councils will be handed money to repair playgrounds, create new parks and redevelop derelict land. Communities Secretary James Brokenshire said the cash will provide “precious spaces for all of us to get together, to exercise and to play | Yes | Morning Star | 2019-02-19 6:35:18 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| MS000131 (edit) | The Tories' hostile environment policy is increasing child poverty, new report claims | Ceren Sagir | 19 February 2019 | '''Project 17 finds youngsters are being treated like ‘second-class citizens’ as the government denies their parents benefits''' THOUSANDS of children are growing up in poverty and being treated like “second-class citizens” because of the government’s hostile environment policy, a report has claimed today. Many children of parents whose immigration status means they are not entitled to mainstream benefits are living in “appalling conditions,” according to the charity Project 17. Their plight leaves them feeling socially isolated, distressed, ashamed and unsafe, according to the group, which works with migrant children in destitution | Yes | Morning Star | 2019-02-19 6:39:39 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| MS000133 (edit) | Over 3,000 jobs under threat in Swindon | MS | 19 February 2019 | MORE than 3,000 jobs are under threat after Honda announced yesterday it is to close its Swindon plant in “a shattering blow” to Britain’s economy. The car manufacturer declined to comment on the announcement by local Tory MP Justin Tomlinson, who said the move is “based on global trends and not Brexit as all European market production will consolidate in Japan in 2021.” He said: “Honda will be consulting with all staff and there is not expected to be any job losses, or changes in production until 2021.” | Yes | Morning Star | 2019-02-19 6:48:55 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| MS000135 (edit) | Rail depot workers in Glasgow call on MSPs to save their jobs and ‘160 years of railway history’ | Conrad Landin | 19 February 2019 | WORKERS at Glasgow’s famous Springburn rail depot lobbied MSPs today to save their jobs and “160 years of railway history.” Ahead of a debate led by Labour MSP James Kelly, members of the RMT and Unite unions gathered at Holyrood to call on the Scottish government to intervene. The Springburn depot carries out servicing, maintenance, repairs, overhauls and upgrades of ScotRail trains | Yes | Morning Star | 2019-02-19 6:52:39 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| MS000138 (edit) | Scrapping care cost cap has cost old and disabled £2bn | MS | 21 February 2019 | ELDERLY and disabled adults are nearly £2 billion worse off in paying for social care since plans for a cap were shelved three years ago, according to Labour analysis of government data. Around 534,000 additional people would have received state support from 2016 to 2026 were the cap implemented by the Department of Health and Social Care as was planned, the party said. Financial transfers to older and working-age adults would have exceeded £1.26bn, or nearly £1.3bn when factoring in inflation, by March this year | Yes | Morning Star | 2019-02-21 4:14:10 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| MS000140 (edit) | Arms company celebrates profit rise as Yemen starves | MS | 22 February 2019 | ARMS manufacturer BAE Systems’ profits soared by £186 million last year, the company revealed yesterday. Its latest accounts record a total operating profit of more than £1.6 billion. The bumper financial results prompted campaigners to accuse the firm of cashing in on the bombing of Yemen | Yes | Morning Star | 2019-02-22 11:05:09 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| MS000144 (edit) | Government failed to prevent ‘systemic breaches’ of human rights in private prisons, High Court rules | Mark Tobin | 22 February 2019 | THE government failed to prevent “systemic breaches” of the human rights of inmates who were unlawfully strip searched at a privately run prison, the High Court ruled today. Four inmates at HMP Peterborough claimed the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) was required to ensure adequate and effective safeguards against breaches of their right to privacy were in place at the jail. Sodexo, which runs the prison, admitted it was responsible for a “systemic failure” to follow MoJ rules on strip searches because it failed to properly train its staff | Yes | Morning Star | 2019-02-22 11:12:22 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| NM000021 (edit) | The UK Needs a Green New Deal, And It Stands Within Our Grasp | Clare Hymer | 21 January 2019 | 2018 saw Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 29-year-old former bartender from the Bronx, dance her way onto the US political stage and into our hearts. Trouncing one of the country’s most senior politicians to become the Democratic candidate for New York’s 14th congressional district, Ocasio-Cortez continued to make waves before she’d even taken office by joining protesters from the Sunrise Movement in a march on House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office on her first morning in D.C. The demand? The creation of a new select committee on climate change as part of a ‘Green New Deal’ (GND) | Yes | Novara Media | |||
| NM000022 (edit) | What Is Going on in Venezuela? | Aaron Bastani | 28 January 2019 | ''Last week the US recognised Juan Guaidó, head of Venezuela’s National Assembly, as the country’s rightful president. It was quickly joined by countries across the Americas including Canada, Brazil and Colombia in demanding Nicolas Maduro step aside.'' The EU abstained from immediately joining such calls, saying instead that it supports the National Assembly as the “democratically elected institution” and that Maduro had eight days to call fresh elections. In the absence of that, it would have little choice but to follow Washington and recognise Guaidó as the country’s legitimate leader – something already explicitly stated by the UK, Spain, France and Germany. The reasons for such a sudden shift are wide-ranging and often ambiguous, with Maduro’s critics highlighting democratic shortcomings, human rights abuses and economic mismanagement as adequate grounds for regime change – as if all three were somehow equivalent | Yes | Novara Media | 2019-01-28 11:53:42 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| NM000025 (edit) | Another Lewisham Is Possible: Overcoming Housing Crisis and the Democratic Deficit | Franck Magennis | 9 February 2019 | Local democracy in the London Borough of Lewisham is completely broken. The Labour Party occupies every one of the council’s 54 seats, and there is no effective opposition. Power is concentrated in an executive mayor. Local people find it exceptionally difficult to have their voices heard over powerful development companies bent on gentrifying the local community. Unwilling to tolerate this democratic deficit, local people are organising to do something about it. Lewisham council is right wing. Its conservatism has driven it to partner with Peabody to pursue the immensely unpopular Reginald/Tidemill development against the wishes of local residents. Spuriously claiming to care about housing, the council is demolishing a vital community garden along with 16 council flats. The garden has been shown to significantly reduce pollution in an already over polluted borough. The local authority refuse to ballot residents of the 16 council flats due for demolition. Many local residents now know their councillors by name and are deeply critical of their handling of the project | Yes | Novara Media | 2019-02-09 9:31:38 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| NM000026 (edit) | Catalonia: As Independence Leaders Stand Trial, Is Spain Heading Towards Constitutional Crisis? | Tommy Greene & Eoghan Gilmartin | 12 February 2019 | ''A dozen leaders of Catalonia’s failed 2017 independence bid have gone on trial in Madrid, charged with rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds.'' Some of the accused, who are mostly ex-officials of the Catalan regional government, face up to 25 years in prison, in a trial that has aggravated Spain’s worst constitutional crisis since the country’s transition to democracy more than 40 years ago. The defendants were arrested in autumn 2017 following an outlawed referendum on 1 October and a unilateral independence proclamation later that month. The breakaway bid was suppressed by Mariano Rajoy’s central Spanish government which imposed direct rule on the region. Key political leaders were rounded up and arrested shortly afterwards and nine of the 12 have been in “preventative detention” ever since, awaiting this week’s trial | Yes | Novara Media | 2019-02-13 8:18:29 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| NM000027 (edit) | Youth Strike 4 Climate: ‘We are challenging the systemic exclusion of young people from climate dialogue’ | Novara Reporters | 15 February 2019 | ''Thousands of students are expected to walk out of school at 11am today in an unprecedented youth action against climate crisis.'' Strikes are taking place in at least 60 towns and cities across the country and take inspiration from similar successful actions in Australia, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany. Organised by the UK Student Climate Network (UKSCN), the protest demands the government declares a climate emergency, takes active steps to achieve climate justice and communicates the severity of the crisis to the general public | Yes | Novara Media | 2019-02-15 10:32:30 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| NM000032 (edit) | Tackling the Climate Crisis Means Transforming British Foreign Relations | David Wearing | 15 August 2019 | If global warming is the product of capitalism, then it is the product of imperialism as well. The world’s major fossil fuel reserves were first incorporated into the global economy under terms dictated by Anglo-American imperial power. Britain’s modern relations with the fossil fuel producers of the Middle East are a direct legacy of that period, and play an important role in sustaining our neoliberal economic model and militaristic foreign policy today. Combating global warming will force us to untangle these relationships, the effect will be transformative, and we need to think seriously about what it will involve | Yes | Novara Media | 2019-08-26 9:01:55 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| NM000035 (edit) | Stop DSEI: the People Disrupting the ‘World-Leading’ Arms Fairs | Francesca Mills | 7 September 2019 | One of the world’s largest arms fairs will open in the UK on Monday. For a week, state of the art weapons will be exhibited to select buyers at the DSEI Fair, held at London’s ExCel Centre. The annual event is attended by governments from all over the world, at the official invitation of the British government’s Defence and Security Organisation. In the week running up to the arms fair demonstrators mobilised by activist group Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) set up camp outside of the ExCel Centre and made their opposition to the arms trade known through a series of workshops, performances, speeches and direct actions – including blocking roads and climbing on top of lorries in an attempt to halt deliveries. A collective prayer led by quakers was interrupted by police, who arrested 33 people in an effort to clear the road | Yes | Novara Media | 2019-09-12 10:28:22 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| OD000098 (edit) | Will the new Environment Bill really deliver Gove’s “Green Brexit”? | Amy Hall | 24 January 2019 | “We will not weaken environmental protections when we leave the EU,” said Environment Secretary Michael Gove in 2018, as the government promised the first Environment Bill in over 20 years. This was the Bill to prove a Green Brexit was what we are headed for, and to get those of us who have been speculating otherwise to pipe down. Finally, Gove managed to get out a draft Bill (or part of one) a few days before Christmas. These draft clauses on environmental principles and governance cover England and non devolved matters in the rest of the UK. They will be included in a broader Environment Bill to be set out in 2019 and include measures on air quality, nature conservation and waste and resource management | Yes | openDemocracy | |||
| OD000099 (edit) | Cuts are causing stress and heartache in the family courts | Frances Judd QC | 24 January 2019 | '''The legal aid cuts mean that most people struggling with family breakdowns must represent themselves in court. The impact on children and ordinary people is enormous.''' In the UK we are lucky enough to have a fair and impartial judicial system. But judges can only do their jobs properly if they have the right evidence and if the cases are properly presented. They also need enough time to listen to people, and to make and record their decisions. Most barristers in the family courts will tell you that this is happening less and less. On April 1 2013, new rules in England and Wales abolished legal aid for private law family cases (cases which do not involve the local authority), save where an individual is able to produce evidence of domestic violence, or under the exceptional funding scheme. Domestic violence needs to be proved by hard evidence (such as a criminal conviction, civil injunction, or a letter from social services or a refuge) and exceptional funding is very, very difficult to obtain. The consequence of this is that the number of unrepresented parties (or litigants-in-person) going through the family courts has soared. Statistics reveal that by 2017 both parties were represented in only 20 per cent of these cases, and in 35 per cent nobody was | Yes | openDemocracy | |||
| OD000100 (edit) | Why the NHS Plan needs to be far more ambitious to tackle inequality | Al Aynsley-Green, Brian Fisher, and Michael Dixon | 24 January 2019 | '''Inequality is a national disgrace that affects the health and wellbeing of us all, especially our children. Bolder action is needed to tackle it.''' ‘In the bleak mid-winter’ - never has the opening line in the much-loved Christmas carol seemed more appropriate than now as 2019 gets underway. Bleak for the poverty, inequality, hopelessness and despair affecting too many people in this, one of the richest countries in the developed world. Why is this the case – and what’s to be done about it – are two questions that politicians need to answer. 14 million people (22% of the population) live in the UK on incomes below the poverty line after housing costs, many trying to survive without income in the chaos of implementing Universal Benefits. Demands for food from the Trussell and other food banks is soaring, with many former middle-income families now seeking help | Yes | openDemocracy | |||
| OD000101 (edit) | Don't be fooled: Britain's social ills can definitely be blamed on rising inequality | Guy Standing | 25 January 2019 | '''Why the FT's economics editor is wrong to dismiss concerns about inequality.''' In a dismissive and sarcastic review of a book Economics for the Many, edited by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, the Economics Editor of the Financial Times, Chris Giles, claimed that its messages were based on a false premise of growing inequality. According to him, ‘in fact UK wealth and income gaps have been stable for a generation’ (1). Earlier in 2018, in an article headed ‘Britain’s social ills cannot be blamed on rising inequality’, he elaborated on this claim, adding that ‘wealth inequality has also been stable for a decade’. This opinion would not merit particular comment were it not for the fact that the FT is the most reputable newspaper dealing with economic issues in the country and probably in the world. The opinion of the Economics Editor would be taken seriously by a lot of people, here and abroad. And we may anticipate that the topic of changes in inequality will figure prominently in any General Election that may come in 2019 | Yes | openDemocracy | |||
| OD000104 (edit) | Why our leaders urgently need to ditch the Machiavelli and read some peace philosophers | John Gittings | 28 January 2019 | '''The League of Nations, inspired by centuries of thinking on peace and justice, was born a hundred years ago this February, and later came the UN. But the promised post-Cold War 'Peace Dividend' never arrived...''' It is the "new abnormal", says the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, announcing that the Doomsday Clock for 2019 will stay at two minutes to midnight. World leaders have not only failed to deal adequately with nuclear and climate threats but they have allowed them to increase, while their citizens are lulled into "a dangerous sense of anomie and political paralysis". CNN puts it bluntly: "It's almost the end of the world as we know it". Meanwhile at Davos, the World Economic Forum has been warned (if it was listening) about the new abnormal in global inequality and poverty and worsening human rights as well as climate change. Are we sleepwalking into another world disaster, this time perhaps terminal, and do we have the imagination and energy with which to confront it? Three times in the last century the world has had to deal with the consequences of catastrophe, and lessons should be learnt from how far it succeeded or failed | Yes | openDemocracy | 2019-01-28 11:18:46 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| OD000106 (edit) | ‘They were planning on stealing the election’: Explosive new tapes reveal Cambridge Analytica CEO’s boasts of voter suppression, manipulation and bribery | Paul Hilder | 28 January 2019 | “I worked at Cambridge Analytica while they had Facebook datasets. I went to Russia one time while I worked for Cambridge. I visited Julian Assange while I worked for Cambridge. I once donated to WikiLeaks. I pitched the Trump campaign and wrote the first contract. All of these things make it look like I am at the centre of some big, crazy thing. I see that, and I can’t argue with that. The only thing that I’ve got going for me is that I didn’t do anything wrong. So they can search everything that they want!” It was May 2018. Brittany Kaiser, the second Cambridge Analytica whistleblower to go public, had just heard she was being subpoenaed by the Mueller investigation, in a moment captured in ‘The Great Hack’ (a documentary which premiered at the Sundance film festival this week). The media were reporting her February 2017 visit to Assange, another piece of circumstantial evidence supposedly connecting her to the controversies around the successes of Donald Trump and Brexit. Kaiser continued to protest her innocence, and to cooperate fully with investigations. And today we can reveal more about what she knew | Yes | openDemocracy | 2019-01-29 7:46:58 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| OD000108 (edit) | The NHS Ten Year Plan neglects the human side of healthcare | David Zigmond | 1 February 2019 | Early in this new year, on 7 January, the Prime Minister proudly announced a hopeful tonic for these troubled times: a Ten-Year Plan for our NHS, to transform it into a ‘world class service’. More money, better systems and state-of-the-art technology will all assure this, she said. On the news channels doubt and dissent soon followed. Opposition spokespeople portrayed the extra funding as illusory; not even compensating for recent years of austerity, nor matching previous levels of funding nor, currently, those of comparable European nations | Yes | openDemocracy | 2019-02-03 9:33:34 AM | Michaeldakin | |
| OD000111 (edit) | Three ways to stop the global economic system working for only rich white men | Stephen McCloskey | 5 February 2019 | '''Women’s unpaid work is worth $10 trillion annually. Amazon's Jeff Bezos’s personal wealth dwarves the health budget of most countries. These facts are linked – and a new report from Oxfam suggests answers.''' A new report by Oxfam suggests that a generation of reckless financial deregulation, wealth accumulation by the world’s richest one percent and the rolling back of essential State services has resulted in extreme levels of social and economic polarisation. The report headline is that in the decade since the 2008 global financial crisis the number of billionaires has nearly doubled and their wealth has increased by $900bn in the last year alone, or $2.5bn a day. In the same period, the wealth of the poorest half of humanity, 3.8 billion people, has fallen by 11%. Put another way, this means that just 26 billionaires – down from 43 in 2017 - own the same wealth as the poorest half of humanity. To quantify this wealth in development terms, the report says that Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon, has amassed a fortune of $112 billion. Just 1% of this sum equates to the entire health budget of Ethiopia. In summary, rich and poor are becoming increasingly polarised and wealth is concentrating in fewer hands | Yes | openDemocracy | 2019-02-06 9:02:34 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| OD000113 (edit) | FGM in the UK will only end if attitudes shift from within communities | Aisha K. Gill | 6 February 2019 | '''A landmark FGM conviction last week heralds a welcome change. But ending this practice requires both criminal and civil remedies.''' The mother of a three-year-old girl became the first person in the UK to be found guilty of female genital mutilation (FGM) last week. The jury heard that the mother used witchcraft to try preventing police, social workers and lawyers from investigating the case. The mother, who remains anonymous for legal reasons, awaits sentencing on 8 March. Until this, no successful FGM prosecutions had been made in the UK, although criminal justice agencies had been working to address this for several years | Yes | openDemocracy | 2019-02-06 9:08:04 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| OD000114 (edit) | Five behaviors that perpetuate toxic capitalism | Suzannah Weiss | 7 February 2019 | This summer, I spoke with a therapist about my issues with workaholism and compulsive saving. I was working 17 hours a day, making ten times the money I needed to survive, and depriving myself of doctors’ appointments, food, and other necessities out of fear of seeing the number in my bank account go down. “How do I stop?” I asked. | Yes | openDemocracy | 2019-02-09 7:00:14 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| OD000118 (edit) | The left has quietly won the debate about EU regulation. Now we must do the same for migration | Christine Berry | 12 February 2019 | '''Since the EU referendum the left has successfuly shifted the terms of the debate on regulation. Now we must have the courage to defend freedom of movement against the anti-immigration politics of Brexit.''' One of the fascinating and under-remarked twists in the topsy-turvy course of the Brexit debate has been the quiet rehabilitation of regulation in general, and EU regulation in particular. In the Commons debate of 29 January, Theresa May stood up and said: “The government will not allow the UK leaving the EU to result in any lowering of standards in relation to employment, environmental protection or health and safety." | Yes | openDemocracy | 2019-02-13 5:06:28 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| OD000120 (edit) | Why a focus on "fake news" and Facebook misses the internet's real problems - and solutions | Jennifer Cobbe | 19 February 2019 | '''MP's new 'fake news' report largely ignores other platforms like Google and YouTube, and surveillance capitalism itself – and risks sending regulation in the wrong direction''' Yesterday morning, the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee published its long-awaited final report into disinformation and ‘fake news’. The report – which follows a long and at times dramatic investigation – is full of interesting and insightful details about political microtargeting (the targeting of political messaging to relatively small groups of people) and the spread of disinformation. But the report’s myopic focus on one company – Facebook – means that it misses the bigger picture – including the internet’s dominant variety of capitalism. It is of course welcome that attention is being paid to these problems, and there is much in the Committee’s report that’s good. The report is undoubtedly right to find that Britain’s electoral laws are woefully inadequate for the age of the algorithm and are badly in need of reform. Its recommendation that inferences drawn from analysis of other data about people should be more clearly considered to be personal data likewise seems eminently sensible | Yes | openDemocracy | 2019-02-19 6:15:29 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| OD000127 (edit) | Democracy is being dismantled by a “cabinet of horrors” – an interview with Molly Scott Cato MEP | Brendan Montague | 10 September 2019 | “I feel like I have fallen into a John le Carré novel,” she reflects. “I hate spy movies, but I’m now thinking we are living in one. I hate all these lies. These people are worse than spies: spies believe in their country and have a code of honour. With these people it’s always about self-interest”. Molly Scott Cato is the Green MEP for South West England, an Oxford alumna, a Quaker, and a former professor of strategy and sustainability at the University of Roehampton. She is also on the front line, defending democracy | No | openDemocracy | 2019-09-12 11:18:35 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| RN000021 (edit) | Time to hold our nerve | David Rosenberg | 17 January 2019 | Luciana Berger, Ben Bradshaw, Louise Ellman, Mike Gapes, Margaret Hodge, Liz Kendall, Chris Leslie, Jess Phillips, Joan Ryan, Angela Smith, Owen Smith, Wes Streeting, Chuka Umunna… Do these names look at all familiar? They have been at the heart of campaigns against Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour Party, not least on the very largely concocted allegations of antisemitism in the Party, and they have sought to undermine the leadership on several other issues too. | Yes | Rebel Notes | |||
| RN000022 (edit) | Who will challenge the Tories’ links with antisemites? | David Rosenberg | 25 January 2019 | Last February the Polish ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) passed a law outlawing accusations of complicity by Poles in the Holocaust. A month later the Polish Prime Minister laid a wreath at the Munich grave site of the Holy Cross Mountains Brigade, a Polish underground military unit who collaborated with Nazi Germany against communists during the Second World War. That same month the Latvian National Alliance party took part in an annual event commemorating the Latvian Waffen-SS. In Bulgaria, every February, the Bulgarian National Movement holds a march through the centre of Sofia to honour Hristo Lukov, an army general who led the pro-Nazi Union of National Legions during the war. The march ends next to the house where Lukov was assassinated by anti-fascist partisans. What connects these three parties? | Yes | Rebel Notes | |||
| RN000028 (edit) | When the people of Stockton fought back | David Rosenberg | 8 September 2019 | In September 1933, the people of Stockton-on-Tees had a famous anti-fascist victory when around 100 members of Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists attempted to march and rally there, but they were chased out of town by socialists and communists in a violent physical confrontation. Last year a plaque was unveiled to honor this battle. I spoke at last year’s event and returned today. This is what I said: I’m honoured to be here, and so honoured to follow Laura (Pidcock MP), who I have heard speak on several platforms but not had the privilege to share a platform with yet | Yes | Rebel Notes | 2019-09-12 10:34:33 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| RR000039 (edit) | Labour movement supports "anti-capitalist" climate strike | Tom | 18 February 2019 | Students in Glasgow skipped school on Friday joining thousands across the UK to protest for urgent action on climate change. The campaign group "Schools 4 Climate Action" organised the demonstrations, demanding the UK government declare a climate emergency and lower the voting age to 16. Despite the issue of climate change being perceived as the territory of the “middle class”, many young socialists were amongst those who took to the street | Yes | Red Robin | 2019-02-19 6:55:32 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| RR000045 (edit) | Scots critical care units lose 7000 days to delayed discharges | Alasdair Clark | 13 August 2019 | Units designed to look after Scotland's sickest patients lost some 1000 patient stays in 2018 because of delayed discharge, new figures have revealed. New analysis by Scottish Labour of figures released today show nearly 7000 'bed-days' were lost due to delays elsewhere in the system. Bed shortages elsewhere in hospitals mean patients often can't be moved out of intensive care onto general wards once they are well enough | Yes | Red Robin | 2019-08-26 8:52:07 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| RR000047 (edit) | 'Constitutional outrage': Thousands expected to take to streets in protest over Commons shutdown | Alasdair Clark | 28 August 2019 | Thousands are set to take to the streets across the UK on Wednesday evening after Boris Johnson said he would proroge parliament Approved by the Queen this afternoon, the plan will see the Commons shutdown for five weeks between 9 September and 14 October. It has been strongly criticised by Jeremy Corbyn and other opposition leaders as a "constitutional outrage", and several backbench Tory MPs have also attacked the plan | Yes | Red Robin | 2019-09-01 1:53:59 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| RR000049 (edit) | SNP Twitter comment 'patronising' to supermarket workers - union official | The Red Robin | 5 September 2019 | Glasgow SNP branch has deleted a tweet mocking Labour's Paul Sweeney for drawing on experience from the frontline of supply chains. Sweeney had made the point that he had seen first hand how fragile fruit and vegetable supply chains could be whilst working in a supermarket. Many of the fruits and vegetables British shoppers buy all year round are transported efficiently from other European countries | No | Red Robin | 2019-09-07 6:36:40 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| TLE000051 (edit) | CCHQ put on election footing and told it needs to have ‘resources in place’ if PM is defeated | Jack Peat | 22 January 2019 | Sir Mick Davies has briefed the Conservative Campaign Headquarters to be on election footing, according to emerging reports. The Telegraph’s political reporter Steven Swinford says the Tory Part’s chief executive told campaign HQ to have the ‘resources in place’ in event PM is defeated again. But it is thought that the party are struggling to get donors to back another Theresa May campaign, which could lead to a leadership contest | Yes | The London Economic | |||
| TLE000052 (edit) | Sony to move headquarters from UK to Netherlands to avoid Brexit disruption | Jack Peat | 23 January 2019 | Sony has become the second major brand within two days to announce it is to move its headquarters out of the UK. The company will move its European HQ from Weybridge to the Netherlands to help it avoid customs issues tied to Britain’s exit from the EU. It is the latest Japanese company to flag a move to the continent in response to Brexit and it comes after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe raised concerns over a no-deal Brexit | Yes | The London Economic | |||
| TLE000053 (edit) | Airbus chief slams Government over its handling of Brexit | Joe Mellor | 24 January 2019 | Tom Enders, the head of Airbus, a major UK employer has not held back over his thoughts on the Government’s handling of Brexit. Enders slammed the Government branding it a “disgrace” and said the business might be forced to leave these shores, post-Brexit, to ensure they can compete in the global marketplace. Airbus, which employs more than 14,000 people in the UK with around 110,000 more jobs connected in supply chain | Yes | The London Economic | |||
| TLE000058 (edit) | Deprived communities bear the brunt of austerity cuts | Jack Peat | 28 January 2019 | The north of England has borne the brunt of austerity cuts imposed since 2010, with the most deprived communities taking the biggest hit. A new study by the Centre for Cities thinktank shows communities which are enduring the highest poverty rates and weakest economies are facing cuts twice that of their counterparts in the more affluent south. The report also points to a “city and country” divide, with urban council areas having shouldered cuts to services such as street cleaning, road repairs and libraries, which, are, on average, twice as deep as those borne by leafier authorities. | Yes | The London Economic | 2019-01-28 11:40:16 AM | Michaeldakin | |
| TLE000062 (edit) | Tributes as comedian Jeremy Hardy dies of cancer aged 57 | Ben Gelblum | 1 February 2019 | Award winning comedian and News Quiz favourite Jeremy Hardy has died after battling cancer his publicist has announced. Tributes from the greats of broadcasting, comedy and social activisim have poured in this morning (see below). The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: ''“Jeremy Hardy was a dear, lifelong friend. He always gave his all for everyone else and the campaigns for social justice. You made us all smile. You made us all think. Rest in peace, Jeremy.”'' | Yes | The London Economic | 2019-02-03 9:42:36 AM | Michaeldakin | |
| TLE000065 (edit) | Average earnings in London 15.5% lower than in 2007 after inflation | Jack Peat | 5 February 2019 | Average earnings in London are 15.5 per cent below the real value of earnings in 2007 after inflation, new research has revealed. A study of official data by GMB has shown that in London, full-time workers’ mean gross annual pay in 2018 was just 84.5 per cent of what it was in 2007. In 2007 the mean gross annual pay of full-time workers was £42,226. In 2018 that figure was £48,604, which when you factor in inflation at 36.17 per cent, saw a decrease in pay of 15.5 per cent | Yes | The London Economic | 2019-02-06 9:14:10 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| TLE000068 (edit) | Last year was the world’s fourth warmest on record – just behind 2015, 2016 and 2017 | Joe Mellor | 6 February 2019 | Last year was the world’s fourth warmest on record – just behind 2015, 2016 and 2017, according to new research. It means the planet really is hotting up – leaving experts with little hope of limiting climate change to global targets. Temperatures are now at levels not seen for 115,000 years – making cyclones, floods and droughts increasingly likely | Yes | The London Economic | 2019-02-09 7:17:27 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| TLE000069 (edit) | Sterling slides as Bank of England slashes growth forecasts | Joe Mellor | 7 February 2019 | The Bank of England has downgraded its growth forecast for 2019 growth to 1.2%, which would be the smallest rise since 2009. Sterling tumbled on the news and was trading 0.6% down versus the US dollar at $1.285. Against the euro, the pound was down 0.3% at €1.134. The PM flew to Brussels today to push for concessions from EU leaders on the divorce deal agreed with them last year, which has been rejected by Parliament | Yes | The London Economic | 2019-02-09 7:19:58 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| TLE000073 (edit) | Social entrepreneurs are helping the homeless – by transforming shipping containers into homes | Joe Mellor | 9 February 2019 | A group of social entrepreneurs are helping the homeless – by transforming shipping containers into homes for rough sleepers. The metal units are among dozens of old storage containers being turned into living spaces as part of a project by social enterprise Help Bristol’s Homeless. The containers-turned-homes will provide accommodation for a rough sleeper for an entire year | Yes | The London Economic | 2019-02-12 12:18:59 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| TLE000081 (edit) | May gets a bullet for her Valentines | Jack Peat | 15 February 2019 | Theresa May received a dose of her own medicine last night after suffering yet another defeat at the hands of a hostile parliament. With a threatening Home Office tweet sent out on her watch making the rounds on Twitter the former Home Secretary went into hiding as her motion urging MPs to back attempts to strike a new withdrawal agreement with the EU was beaten by 303 votes to 258. Many hard-line Brexiteers abstained from the vote, which highlighted the momentous task the PM has ahead of her | Yes | The London Economic | 2019-02-15 10:17:55 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| TLE000083 (edit) | It would take 100 years for black & minority ethnic police officers to be representative of London population | Guest Contributor | 19 February 2019 | It would take 100 years for black and minority ethnic police officers to be representative of the London population, it was revealed today. Twenty years on from the inquiry into the investigation of Stephen Lawrence’s murder, black and minority ethnic people are still less likely to be successful applicants to the Met Police. And when they are recruited they have significantly higher grievances at their treatment in the force | Yes | The London Economic | 2019-02-19 6:26:39 PM | Michaeldakin | |
| TLE000095 (edit) | Our government has invited a roll call of human rights abusers to sell them their deadly tools at DSEI | Andrew Smith | 3 September 2019 | Recent weeks have seen a further intensification of the violence being inflicted on pro-democracy campaigners in Hong Kong. The police crackdown has only got worse, with clouds of tear gas becoming a regular sight on the streets. There is no doubt that some of that tear gas was made here in the UK, with images of UK-made canisters emerging across social media. Despite the brutality and repression it has inflicted, the Hong Kong authorities will be one of many human rights abusing regimes that are coming to London next week for Defence & Security Equipment International 2019 (DSEI), one of the biggest arms fairs in the world | Yes | The London Economic | 2019-09-07 6:18:21 PM | Michaeldakin |
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