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Somewhere between 50,000 and 60,000 people turned out for the Love Music, Hate Racism Carnival on Sunday, a magnificent attendance. Tony Benn, Ken Livingstone, Derek Simpson and Matt Wrack were amongst the speakers. |
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Somalia is experiencing the worst crisis in 15 years, 3586 civilian deaths including infants, children, women and the elderly, and the toll rising by the day. Rape, fear, displacement, misery and suffering on an enormous scale while the Western governments stand by and watch. |
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Ken Livingstone, visitng George Galloway's Bethnal Green and Bow
constituency in East London today, gave surpise backing for a broad
coalition of Labour, the Greens and George Galloway and Respect in the
London Assembly to be elected next Thursday. |
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Following on fron the Love Music Hate Racism carnival this Sunday, Tony Benn, Ken Livingstone and George Galloway will be sharing a platform for peace at a rally in east London from 4pm. |
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Respect members and supporters offer our full support to striking PCS, NUT and UCU workers this Thursday, 24 April. Many Respect members are active in all 3 unions, and Respect activists will be joining our brothers and sisters on picket lines and at rallies and demonstrations across the country. |
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Thousands of migrant workers demonstrated in Trafalgar Square today against the government's new immigration laws. They were overwhelmingly from the Indian sub-continent and predominantly from Bangladesh. |
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George Galloway and Respect members standing for the London Assembly have offered their full support to teachers and civil service workers who are set to strike on 24 April over pay. George has written to the civil service union, PCS, in response to a questionnaire put to all candidates, outlining Respect's backing for the stance the union has taken.
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Respect activists and MP George Galloway visited a number of shopkeepers and also spoke with customers in Blackstock Road on Saturday, to gauge reaction to the massive police raid in the area two weeks before. |
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We're moving our election campaign up a gear this weekend, with a major push in Tower Hamlets. We're asking all our members, supporters and activists to come over to Tower Hamlets on Sunday for a day on the bus, leafleting and campaigning. |
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The Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), which led the protests against war in Iraq and Afghanistan in the UK along with the Stop The War Coalition and CND, has urged its supporters to vote for George Galloway, Hanif Abdulmuhit and Respect in the London Assembly elections. |
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In order to vote in the local elections on 1st May, you must be registered to vote. The deadling to register with your local council is 16 April, so you only have one day left! Click here to find out how to register - but do it quick or you may miss out on 1st May. |
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We were all deeply saddened at the death of long-standing activist, trade unionist and Respect member Greg Tucker last weekend. Here is a tribute to him, by Terry Conway. |
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The strength of feeling among teachers over pay is clear from the overwhelming vote by members of the National Union of Teachers for a day's strike action on 24 April.
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Foster + Partners’ controversial redevelopment scheme at Bishop's Place in East London has found a powerful enemy in the outspoken MP George Galloway. Galloway, in whose Bethnal Green & Bow constituency the Bishop's Place scheme would be built, has called for the Hammerson development to be halted.
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Election campaigns cost a lot of money - and Respect is proud that we don't have the backing of big business.
But this means we rely on you, our supporters, to donate money for our election campaigns. Now you can donate £3.50 to our campaign by texting GEORGE plus your email address to 81456. |
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Friends of the Earth has invited George Galloway to head up a protest on Tower Bridge this Satuday at 12.30pm. George is very pleased to have had this invitation and to help draw attention to the urgency of the situation which is already devastating some of the poorest countries in the world, including Bangladesh.
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"From the moment our battle bus headed off from City Hall after our launch, you could sense the potential support for our campaign," says George Galloway MP, who is heading Respect's campaign for the London Assembly. |
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Respect's London election campaign launch this morning will be covered on London Tonight on ITV at 6pm today, and on BBC London at 6.30pm - do tune in! We'll have a full report and pictures soon. |
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Join George Galloway and other Respect candidates for the London Assembly on the Respect routemaster at 10.30am, City Hall, on Monday as Geoge launches the campaign to see him and others elected on 1st May.
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George Galloway this evening savagely attacked Boris Johnson and his pretensions to become mayor of London. In an article to appear in tomorrow's Daily Record he writes: "Bonkers Johnson can scarcely be imagined representing one of the world's great capitals. He backed Bush and Blair's war on Iraq and boasts he stole Tariq Aziz's cigar case when roaming around his empty house on a post-war dance on Iraqi war graves. He described black children as 'picaninnies', marvelling at their 'water-melon smiles'. And he's managed to insult the people of Liverpool, Swindon and Bristol."
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For the World Against War demonstration on 15 March, and to build support for Respect in the coming elections, we're proud to launch a special 16-page edition of our newspaper. Pick up your copy or download it! |
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Respect MP George Galloway will be a guest speaker at the George Habash memorial meeting on March 15, organised by the George Habash Memorial Committee |
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Shelter staff are taking a second day’s strike action on Monday 10th March.
There will be picket lines at the following locations. Please note they are slightly different from the locations for last week’s strike – there will be no picket line in Newcastle, but there will be one in Bristol. There will also be a rally in Edinburgh. |
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Shelter workers held their first strike day on Wednesday 5 March - it was a great success. The National Pensioners' Convention were there with their banner, as was the National Shop Stewards' Network, with theirs. |
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The Government's new immigration points based system has started to be implemented this week, less than a month after the Border and Immigration Agency announced details of the "Australian-style" Points scheme on the 6th February.
Brown’s government has once again acted with knee-jerk legislation to counter the hysteria about immigration and asylum seekers, hysteria whipped up by the constant bombardment of negative reports in the media. |
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Shelter workers will be on strike Wednesday 5 March. Here are details of pickets lines throughout the UK. Please do go and show Shelter workers your support! |
Dear sisters and brothers,
I have long felt proud to be support the work you do in Shelter, which has done so much to highlight the national scandal of homelessness and overcrowding.
Both those issues blight the lives of large numbers of my constituents in East London. They need Shelter to be a strong, campaigning organisation – that requires a staff which is properly and fairly rewarded, well motivated and respected.
Ken Loach – a fellow leading figure in the Respect party – has already spoken out powerfully in your support, on Radio 4 and elsewhere, and I have no hesitation in joining him.
It is almost beyond belief that you are being forced to sign new, inferior contracts. These are the kinds of neo-liberal measures which on a social scale contribute to the housing crisis Shelter does so much to address.
I know you have not taken the decision to take strike action in defence of your pay and conditions lightly. But you have done so overwhelmingly. I have had over 30 years membership and association with the TGWU – now part of Unite – and I know it has always acted not only for its members but for the wider social good.
As a longstanding friend and supporter of Shelter, I would appeal to the management to meet with your union representatives, withdraw these attacks on your conditions and pay, and together with you seek to win the funding that the charity deserves to do its vital work.
In solidarity,
George Galloway
Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow |
Respect MP George Galloway will be appearing on the BBC's "Question Time" programme this Thursday, 28 February at 10.35pm on BBC1. Do tune in.
Please visit the BBC website for details. |
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News and articles of interest
Here are some articles and news reports we think are worth looking at
From Triumph to Torture by John Pilger
Two weeks ago, I presented a young Palestinian, Mohammed Omer, with the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. Awarded in memory of the great US war correspondent, the prize goes to journalists who expose establishment propaganda, or "official drivel", as Gellhorn called it.
SATs school tests criticised by official report by Harvey Thompson and Linda Slattery
In May, millions of school children throughout England undertook their Standard Assessment Tasks (SATs) in English, mathematics and science. The statutory tests are widely considered to be flawed and almost universally reviled by teachers and children alike.
Health: Who asked for choice? - Morning Star
IF Health Minister Ben Bradshaw believes that there is political capital to be made by taking on our NHS doctors, he will quickly come unstuck.
Afghanistan troop deaths outnumber those in Iraq by Angela Balakrishnan and agencies
Militants in Afghanistan killed more US and Nato troops than those in Iraq in June after a fresh spate of rebel attacks that highlighted the growing strength of the Taliban.
Iran legally entitled to develop nuclear energy, says UK MP
Iran is legally entitled to develop nuclear energy under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, according to a British MP visiting Tehran for the first time.
George Galloway, who was expelled from Britain's ruling Labor Party for his outspoken opposition to the Iraq war, also criticized the hypocrisy of Israel's belligerence towards Iran, which has its own illegal stockpile of nuclear weapons.
In the Cause of Fear and Ignorance by John Pilger
Muslims are alone as they watch the British state, with its "obstinate incomprehension" of their faith, do to them as it would never do to those of other faiths. Imagine Jews treated this way. You cannot imagine it; the profanity is too great. The silence of British Jews, who have the history, is also great.
Migrant Myths by Adam Ford
As part of her degree course, Kurdish migrant Filiz Celik researched the conditions that workers from overseas face in the United Kingdom. The full text of her study can be read here, but this summary by Adam Ford gives some idea of the reality behind the media-generated myths.
Tesco shareholders reject TV chef's chicken welfare call
Tesco shareholders today voted against a resolution from TV cook Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall which called for the retail giant to improve its chicken-rearing standards.
Academies expelled 10,000 pupils
Academies have been accused of excluding disproportionately high numbers of students after it emerged that they excluded nearly 10,000 pupils for poor behaviour last year.
Let companies run state schools for profit, says Sir Simon Milton
Private companies should be allowed to run state schools at a profit and be free to dismiss teachers who are not up to the job, the head of the Local Government Association (LGA) said yesterday.
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