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Glasgow Chiapas Solidarity Group will no longer supporting this event or providing a Chiapas Solidarity Stall. We were informed today that the venue is owned by Craig Tannoch. He recently sacked a worker and has not passed on their National … Continue reading 
"I Blew My Chances As You Blow Dried Your Hair""Goodbye To Cellulite, Hello To Silicone""I Try To Laugh About It Hiding The Tears In My Eyes"
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Written by Martin LynchDirected by Lisa May and Martin LynchEveryman Theatre (27th April - 1st May 2010)What do you get if you cross prison life during the civil war euphemistically known as the 'Troubles' with dancey 1960s soul hits? Well, you get Chronicles of Long Kesh, for better and worse.Northern Ireland playwright Martin Lynch interviewed former prisoners, prison workers, and family
Elections are a good time to bury bad news. Surprising no-one, it was revealed yesterday that London’s riot police were “almost certainly” the killers of antifascist Blair Peach 31 years ago. Not that they were ever charged of course. Will Ian Tomlinson’s family face the same wait for justice? The Sauce names names: Inspector Alan Murray was [...]
A House of Lords report demonstrates frequent abuse of Asylum Seekers by Private Security Companies such as G4S employed by UK Border Agency. The report found serious injuries suffered by detainees who had been handcuffed or physically restrained and follows an investigation into allegations of abuse involving private firms employed by the Government to forcibly remove [...]
Chapter 2: "It is September 2005 and the hand-loom silk weaving industry of Varanasi is slowly rotting away. Over the past five years, as India has opened its domestic market to foreign imports, cheap Chinese silk has flooded in."Chapter 3: "The skilled trade union man, the barricade fighter who had never been to a public meeting, the mystic feminist from the backstreets; these were the
On Saturday, workers and young people around the world will celebrate May Day - a festival of resistance which traces its origins back to the struggle for the eight hour day, and the state murder of the 'Haymarket martyrs' in 1880s Chicago.Saturday is also one year since the first Workers' Fightback bulletin, which opened with news on the Visteon car workers' factory occupation, resistance to the