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Former Abusive UK Undercover Officer Training Australian Police

March 10, 2016 Staff, www.policespiesoutoflives.org.uk , ,
By Staff of Police Spies Out of Lives - Helen Steel has flown to Australian to confront John Dines, an undercover officer in the UK who she was tricked into a two year relationship with. She has tracked him down after years piecing together his real identity. This was revealed today in an exclusive in the Guardian. She also revealed that he was working teaching Police in Sydney. Helen said “John was part of the … special demonstration squad which spied on trade unionists, anti-racists and environmental campaigners…. I was extremely concerned that he might now be promoting the kind of tactics that have been used on us in the UK

Thousands Attend London Protest Against Nuclear Weapons

March 2, 2016 Robert Stevens, www.wsws.org , ,
By Robert Stevens for World Socialist Web Site - Several tens of thousands demonstrated in London Saturday in opposition to the planned renewal of the UK Trident nuclear missile system. The protest was called by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). A parliamentary vote on renewing Trident, which is housed on four submarines located in Scotland, is to be held later this year. Demonstrators assembled in Marble Arch, then marched to Trafalgar Square. The keynote speaker on the platform was Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. But he was joined by Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon, Plaid Cymru (Party of Wales) leader Leanne Wood and Green Party MP Caroline Lucas.

Clashes As Authorities Dismantle Calais ‘Jungle’

March 2, 2016 Staff, www.france24.com ,
By Staff of FRANCE 24 with AFP, REUTERS - The unrest began as labourers - under heavy police protection - moved in to start pulling down the makeshift shelters in the shantytown. Two bulldozers stood by but were not used. The demolition of the southern half of the camp began after a court petition by charities to stop it was rejected last week. Migrants and members of the British "No Borders" activist group, who launched projectiles at the police, set fire to about 20 of the shelters, according to an AFP photographer and running clashes continued late into the afternoon.

Jeremy Corbyn Joins Thousands In U.K. Anti-Nuclear Weapons Rally

March 2, 2016 Roisin Davis, www.truthdig.com , ,
By Roisin Davis for Truth Dig - In what’s being hailed as Britain’s biggest anti-nuclear weapons rally in a generation, tens of thousands demonstrated on London’s streets Saturday to protest the U.K.’s Trident nuclear weapons system and to call for global nuclear disarmament. “We are not alone,” Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain’s Labour Party, told the crowd in central London today. “There are many people around the world ... who have wanted a non-nuclear future for their country and their planet.”

Thousands Of Taxi Drivers In U.S. And U.K. Protest Uber

February 12, 2016 Gwyn Topham and Staff, www.theguardian.com, www.6abc.com , , ,
By Gwyn Topham for The Guardian and Staff of 6 ABC News - Taxi drivers brought central London to a standstill to highlight the threats to their trade from Uber and changing regulation. Organisers said about 8,000 drivers took part in the protest on Wednesday afternoon, as traditional black cabs blocked lanes the length of Whitehall and halted much traffic around Westminster and the West End. Black-cab drivers have been incensed by the actions of Transport for London (TfL) in licensing Uber, blurring the lines between traditional taxis and private hire.

To Protect Local Democracy, British Parliament Gets Fracked

February 10, 2016 www.propublica.org ,
By Jon Queally for Common Dreams - "We are here to fight for the future of the English countryside," declared Greenpeace campaigner Hannah Martin. "Ministers are pushing aside local democracy to bulldoze through their unpopular fracking plans. We have installed a life-like fracking rig and drill at Parliament Square to show them what people in Lancashire and beyond will have to endure if so-called Communities Minister Greg Clark forces fracking on a reluctant nation."

Why Britain’s Housing Crisis Heralds The Next Financial Crash

February 10, 2016 Steve Rushton, www.occupy.com , ,
By Steve Rushton for Occupy - Housing prices in London have risen by 50% in the last five years. If the U.K. property bubble goes boom, it will be proportionally bigger than the U.S. housing bust at the onset of the financial crisis in 2007. How did we get here? For starters, U.K. banks in 2015 lent over £1 trillion ($1.4 trillion) for housing, accounting for 70% of newly made loans. The result is that when this bubble pops, it could catalyze another global financial meltdown. While there are many other possible triggers, the next financial crash is more likely than not.

150 London Students Launch Rent Strike Demanding Lower Housing Costs

January 29, 2016 Charlotte Dingle, www.occupy.com , , ,
By Charlotte Dingle for Occupy - Students in Britain have a great deal to be angry about these days. In 2009, the U.K. government made the shock decision to raise tuition fees from £1,000 to £3,000 ($1,400 to $4,300), after the Liberal Democrats reneged on their promise to scrap them entirely and fell into convenient agreement with their Conservative coalition bedfellows. Then, last year, Chancellor George Osborne announced that maintenance grants for the country's poorest students would be scrapped by September of 2016.

Colonization Is Nothing To Be Proud Of

January 26, 2016 Adam Withnall, www.independent.co.uk , , ,
By Adam Withnall for Independent - After a new poll found that the British public is generally proud of the country’s imperial history, people have started comparing the worst atrocities of the Empire to the present-day horrors of Isis. The sun famously never set on the British Empire at its height in 1922 – but its rule was enforced through the starvation of local populaces, brutal detention camps, mass executions and slavery. A survey released on Tuesday by YouGov found that 43 per cent of respondents thought that “generally speaking”, the British Empire was a good thing.

‘Crafted By And For Big Business’: TTIP Under Fire Across Europe

January 20, 2016 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org , ,
By Deirdre Fulton for Common Dreams - A new UK coalition is sounding the alarm over how the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), currently under negotiation between the U.S. and EU, would force European small businesses into unfair competition with U.S. firms with lower standards and lower costs. "Together with thousands of our counterparts in other European countries, we are concerned that many European businesses risk being wiped out by unfair competition from U.S. corporations if TTIP is allowed to go through," reads the statement from Business Against TTIP, launched over the weekend.

Thousands Of UK Doctors Strike Over Lack Of Health Funding

January 13, 2016 Staff, www.america.aljazeera.com , , ,
By Staff of Aljazeera - Thousands of junior doctors walked off the job Tuesday in England in a bitter dispute over pay and working conditions — the first such strike in 40 years. About 50,000 junior doctors — those who are training and have between one and 10 years of experience — were on strike for 24 hours protesting government plans to change pay and work schedules. The strike has forced the cancellation of about 4,000 operations and outpatient procedures. The striking doctors argue patients will be put at risk by the government's policies, while the government says the National Health Service (NHS) needs more flexibility to deliver services on weekends.

Squatters Occupy Royal Mint Site To Protest Against Homelessness

December 31, 2015 Lexi Finnigan, www.telegraph.co.uk , ,
By Lexi Finnigan for The Telegraph - A group of 20 anti-capitalist squatters have taken over the former Royal Mint Building in protest over Britain's homelessness problem. The squatters, wearing V for Vendetta masks and hanging out of windows, have set up camp in the grade II-listed Johnson Smirke building, in the City of London, and are refusing to leave. They claim they will only be removed when the owners of the building arrive with a High Court order. Some of the protesters have taken to the roof of the building while others have hung banners with messages such as ‘anticapitalista’, as well as adorning the walls with 'End World Debt' posters.

Thousands Protest UK Bombing Of Syria In London

December 1, 2015 Shehab Khan, www.independent.co.uk , , ,
By Shehab Khan for Independent - Thousands of people have taken to the streets of London to protest against Britain joining the bombing campaign against Isis in Syria. The demonstration was one of many across the country organised by the Stop The War Coalition protest movement. Many famous faces were present as actor Mark Rylance and musician Brian Eno handed a letter to Downing Street urging David Cameron not to bomb Syria

Bank Crimes Pay: Under The Thumb Of Global Financial Mafiocracy

December 1, 2015 Andrew Gavin Marshall, www.occupy.com , ,
By Andrew Gavin Marshall for Occupy - On Nov. 13, the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced it was charging 10 individual bankers, working for two separate banks, Deutsche Bank and Barclays, with fraud over their rigging of the Euribor rates. The latest announcement shines the spotlight once again on the scandals and criminal behavior that have come to define the world of global banking. To date, only a handful of the world’s largest banks have been repeatedly investigated, charged, fined or settled in relation to a succession of large financial scams, starting with mortgage fraud and the Libor scandal in 2012, the Euribor scandal and the Forex (foreign exchange) rate rigging.

London Students Clash With Police Over Tuition Increases

November 6, 2015 Laura Hughes and Nicola Harley, www.telegraph.co.uk , ,
By Laura Hughes and Nicola Harley for The Telegraph - A student protest over tuition fees descended into violence on Wednesday just hours after the shadow chancellor told demonstrators that they had been "betrayed" by the government. John McDonnell addressed thousands of students in central London who were calling for the end of tuition fees and the return of maintenance grants. Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, did not join the protests but had a message read out to demonstrators urging students to "keep campaigning for justice".
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