Were anyone to doubt that the United States has an hereditary ruling class, it is revealing that GOP candidate, Mitt Romney is related to six former presidents of the United States. According to Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, Romney’s family tree connects him to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Pierce, Herbert [...]
Philadelphia’s Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 234 and New York City’s TWU Local 100 work together to help get out the vote in Pennsylvania. Mitt Romney’s supporters had hoped to steal Pennslyvania by restrictive regulations on voter ID that would deter working class voters. This was overturned by the courts, and trade union activists have [...]
Really, really good 15 minute talk by Cllr Rabina Khan, author and independent local councillor in Tower Hamlets. Worth listening to, and recommending and passing on to others. Listen here from BBC Radio Four, from the Four Thought series. “I am a product of multi-cultural Britain, and by extension multi-cultural England. … … I believe [...]
Phakamani! Opstaan! is the newspaper of the Democratic Left Front, an organisation in South Africa. This 6th issue of the newspaper provides brief analysis and an interview from the recent wave of mine strikes. Download the PDF here. In this [...]
A host of organisations are organising a climate bloc on October 20′s anti-austerity demonstration see http://climatebloc.wordpress.com/ Assembling under the slogans For a Future That Doesn’t Cost the Earth! and Against Austerity, For Climate Justice! the bloc seeks to involve climate [...]BBC News A senior Metropolitan Police officer has been placed on restricted duties after George Galloway claimed he entered his home without consent. In an Early Day Motion, the Respect MP for Bradford West said the officer used an alias to attack him on Facebook in an “apparent dirty tricks operation”. Mr Galloway also claimed [...]