Public Meeting: NO RIOT EVICTIONS IN BATTERSEA
@ Doddington Community Centre,
Charlotte Despard Avenue,
Battersea Park Rd, SW11 5HD
Maite de la Calva with her daughter and their block of council flats
Videos from “Give Our Kids a Future March” Dalston to Tottenham March
Short film:
Some joker from Young Voters’ Question Time, giving his tuppence worth:
A New Hope for the Centre Left?
By Tim Caswell
Labour leadership candidates Andy Burnham, Ed Balls, David Miliband, Ed Miliband and Diane Abbott. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty, David Levene, Toby Melville/Reuters, John Stillwell/PA, Martin Godwin
For the ninety-nine percent of the population who are not interested in party politics, people who are must seem like a religious sect. A dwindling band of brothers and sisters who think that their leader will lead them to the Promised Land – or at least a small majority in the House of commons.
UK Thailand Solidarity Campaign Open Meeting – 13th June, London
The UK section of the International Solidarity for Thailand Campaign is holding an open planning meeting on Sunday 13th June 2010 from 1pm to 3pm.
Venue: Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London, EC2A 4LT
Eyewitness accounts of Gaza Freedom Flotilla – Sarah Colborne & Anne De Jong
Yesterday, thousands marched and demonstrated in London, against the blockade and the collective punishment of the Palestinian people in Gaza. Also the Irish Foreign Minister Dr Micheal Martin’s plea to let “Rachel Corrie into Gaza”, a poignant and poetic request was denied by the Israeli authorities.
News today has been announced that the autopsy report shows that those who were killed on the flotilla were shot in the head at point-blank range. The Israel government continues an inhuman blockade and denial of human rights and the victimisation of a people.
At The Multicultural Politic – we put forward these two voices of non-party political aligned though solidarity and human rights activists.
“Our eyes are on Durban, but not for the World Cup”
Today, Friday 14 May, a deputation from London Coalition Against Poverty visited the South African High Commission to deliver a message in solidarity with their sister group in Durban, the shackdwellers’ movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo. Even with the world’s attention focused on their city, the group is experiencing massive repression and its leaders have been driven into hiding.
LCAP activists outside South Africa House, London, UK
The letter was delivered to coincide with the court appearance of twelve Abahlali activists, arrested during two days of massive attacks on their settlement. Amnesty International stated that an armed mob of 500 people attacked their community on 26 and 27 September last year, targeting members of Abahlali in particular. Not a single person has been arrested for this violence, yet the Kennedy 12 are still facing the courts – with no evidence led thus far.
In Defence of “ConDem” Nation – the Coalition Government
This post was originally posted as a comment to the previous article: “Britain’s New Politics: The Clameron Government”.
That was a totally biased and negative article, and one that fails to mention some of the significant and excellent reforms/policies that are coming, many of which might well be considered “Left” and many which might never have existed if not for the Lib-Dems deciding to influence policy constructively instead of hissing from the sidelines.
Better to see many of your policies implemented than none at all. Better to cooperate than burn bridges, poison wells and salt fields.
Comedian Mark Steel: Tory rule all over again
This was written (and amended as the day unfolded) on the day David Cameron became Prime Minister, for The Independent, but didn’t go in the paper.
The mayhem of the last few days seemed as if it would go on and splendidly on. I’m still half-expecting that by tomorrow morning the Lib-Dems will be holding talks with the Portuguese Social Democratic Party on an offer of a three way coalition with the Hell’s Angels.
The best solution might have been to keep the chaos going for four years, when it would be time for another election. So every day the news would say something like “This morning William Haig offered the Lib-Dems two places on the British Council of Buddhists, and the job of England football manager to Simon Hughes, but in a dramatic twist at 3.00 pm, following pressure from Paddy Ashdown, Peter Mandelson appeared at the treasury office and hung himself, thus removing a crucial obstacle to a pact with Labour. But further talks were stalled at midnight when David Blunkett threatened Chris Huhne with an axe, so negotiators have now offered the SNP independence for Stenhousemuir.”
BNP GE2010 results: anti-fascism doesn’t work
by Glyn Harries
At the May 2010 Barking and Dagenham council elections, the British National Party lost all their 12 Councillors, all previously elected in 2006. And their national party leader Nick Griffin, who it was suggested would take the Parliamentary seat, only came 3rd, and petulantly walked away declaring Barking and London ‘finished’.
But away from the headlines the actual results in Barking and Dagenham show the BNP nearly doubled their vote from 2006 to 2010, though where they had stood previously their vote did decline slightly. I have used their highest votes in each ward. While it is good news to see the Councillor parasites of the BNP wiped out, the Hope not Hate (HnH) victory claims are as ever deeply flawed.
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TMP Editor on Al Jazeera
In the early hours of the morning of 7th May, as the results were coming in for the British General Election 2010. I appeared on Al Jazeera English News Channel to speak on two topics:
My debut on Al Jazeera is below, filmed and uploaded on to YouTube by a good colleague of mine and now on The Multicultural Politic for you to enjoy/lament/laugh at:
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