Bourgeois political power is not as unassailable as they would like us to think. Our rulers can be relied upon, periodically, to split. James Turley looks at the botched attempt of the Metropolitan Police to use the Official Secrets Act Once again, The Guardian has found itself targeted because of its phone-hacking investigation. Waving around the ...
We have no problem with self-defence, writes Michael Copestake (first published in the Weekly Worker) One can almost hear the sound of knees jerking, as calls are heard from sections of the left for the state to take action against the far right following the massacre in Norway. Of course, we on the left feel particular ...
The scandal at News International reveals a few home truths about the corrupt establishment, writes James Turley (first published in the Weekly Worker) Some starry-eyed commentators have, of late, begun comparing the implosion of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire with another spectacular collapse: the Berlin wall. This is, obviously enough, overstating the case by some considerable margin. Anybody ...
The News of the World scandal has revealed the true relationship between the media and politicians, writes James Turley (first published in the Weekly Worker) It has probed, at best semi-legally, into the private affairs of well-heeled celebrities, politicians and royals major and minor; yet Rupert Murdoch’s media empire has suffered its first major body-blow in decades ...
Police and Glasgow University management were left embarassed yesterday by a remarkable turn of events. After bosses called in the police to forcibly evict students from a seven week long occupation, the evictees marched a few hundred metres up the road, took over the university's main building and, after refusing to back down in negotiations, ...
Cracks are emerging in the state apparatus- but we have to face the full social role of the police squarely, writes James Turley first published in the Weekly Worker The mass student protests mobilised a wide variety of young people (and their teachers, parents and lecturers) from different backgrounds - geographical, social and political. Yet, in ...
Students across the country have been fighting back against job cuts in Higher Education as the government is attempting to offload some of the crisis onto students and education workers. As part of the 'National Wave' organised by the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts students at the University of Westminster went into occupation for ...
Around 4pm on Tuesday afternoon around 30 students from London Metropolitan University (LMU) staged occupied the fifth floor of a University building on Commercial Road. The occupation took place in the context of threats to axe over 550 jobs at the institution. The university is greeted with massive bills from the Higher Education Funding Council ...
Information collection and barriers to the free movement of people are far from legitimate, writes Ted North Over recent weeks many woolly-eyed liberal types seem to have discovered that her majesty's police force is not the shining beacon of civilisation they had long taken it for. The quasi-mythical 'bobby on the beat' has developed a ...
Chris Strafford identifies a virtual split in the ruling class over current police tactics that we should use Following the death of Ian Tomlinson at the April 1 G20 protest, the policing of recent demonstrations has come under close scrutiny. After their initial account of the incident was exposed as clearly false, thanks to the numerous ...
James Turley calls for minority workers to organise in active unity as workers, in defence of the democratic rights of all Last week’s highly publicised ‘anti-terrorist’ raid in the north-west provoked the usual anti-migrant and anti-Muslim reaction in the rightwing press. Those detained are suspected of plotting an “Easter spectacular”, in the slightly distasteful words of ...
Police thugs randomly searched and brutalised G20 protesters. Chris Strafford reports The G20 summit saw thousands of people protest outside the Bank of England on April 1. The demonstration was called by a variety of groups under the banner of G20 Meltdown. From early on the police had protesters hemmed in a ‘kettle’, which restricted access, compacted the ...
Pupils at Calder Valley High School in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire have staged a protest walk-out in protest at the suspension of two teachers - Mrs Rusty and Mr Cann. Over 250 students were involved in the protest in a fantastic show of support for the teachers. Calum Paramor, a Year 11 student who helped to organise ...