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Why Labour should boycott G4S as a provider of security to its conference
G4S is mired in scandal, but the company will provide security at Labour Party conference in September. Stop G4S campaigners Greg Dropkin and John Nicholson ask trade unionists and party members to...
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July 10 strike: Government picks fight with public sector workers
This Thursday, one and a half million workers including firefighters, teachers, civil servants and local government staff will exercise their democratic right to strike. On the surface the dispute is...
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What’s wrong with striking for £1 an hour when richest 1,000 double wealth by...
No-one wants to strike, least of all the strikers who lose wages they can ill afford, but what do you do when public sector workers’ pay has been cut in real terms by 8% in the last 6 years and the...
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Passing the surveillance bill in one day is totally unacceptable
The Official Secrets Act was rammed through the House of Commons in 1911 in just one day – with the (ostensibly) unintended and undesirable consequences of a national security concept with blanket...
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The roll of honour: opposed to the Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance Bill
Sunny Hundal makes the crucial point about this morning on Labour List: “an emergency was concocted. There’s little point in complaining about the rush because that was the whole point.” Ed Miliband’s...
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My speech on the “emergency” Data Protection Bill
The following is the text of my speech on the Data Protection and Investigatory Powers Bill: I feel uneasy about the Bill on several grounds. As I am sure that we all do, I clearly accept that there is...
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Civil liberties tossed out of the window as Labour is mesmerised by security...
The emergency surveillance bill rushed through Parliament this week was somewhat overshadowed by David Cameron’s reshuffle and the luridly misogynistic coverage of it in parts of the Tory press. But...
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A Tory minister’s revenge operation?
Mark Harper, the Immigration minister notorious for the racist “In the UK illegally? Go home or face arrest” vans who left the Government in February, is back in office. After just six months on the...
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Darcus Howe: setting the record straight
Four of us stood glued to the television for the best part of five minutes. We were all familiar with Darcus Howe. For my part, I’d seen his gripping TV series on English identity, White Tribe, several...
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Time to ban ‘revenge porn’
Another Sunday, another case of celebrity revenge porn. This time Lauren Goodger from The Only Way is Essex is the victim and the piece itself is said to be a six second clip of her performing “a sex...
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Rushing into new anti-extremist powers has a troublesome history
Here we go again. The undoubted threat represented by ISIS and the return of its recruits to the UK is leading to calls for new banning orders for extremist groups, new civil powers to target...
View ArticlePride trailer: lesbians and gays support the miners
Pride is inspired by an extraordinary true story. It’s the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and...
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Ending the secrecy that shrouds the sell off of the NHS
The arguments about the fragmentation and privatisation of NHS services are well rehearsed. The public know the reorganisation wasted £3 billion and vital resources which should have been spent on...
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Qatar: Concern grows for missing human rights investigators
Two British human rights campaigners, investigating the treatment of migrant workers in Qatar have gone missing. Ghimire Gundev and Krishna Upadhyaya were last seen on Sunday when they sent panicked...
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G4S, Serco, Rotherham all bang to rights, but still carry on business as usual
The Commons spending watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, has uncovered that G4S has been allowed to bid for further government contracts while being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office...
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A trade union agenda for Labour
It’s no mystery why all the economic indicators point to the economy emerging from the recession and yet wages are continuing to fall behind inflation. The post-recession economy that is being created...
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After Gaza, some accounting
The Israeli bombardment of Gaza may have left the headlines, but only now is the full story of destruction and abuse coming to light. The Russell Tribunal on Palestine has been meeting in emergency...
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Tory extremists go for broke over European Court of Human Rights
It has been said that Grayling’s inveighing against the European Court of Human Rights is to spike UKIP’s guns in denouncing the EU. It is much more likely to be spurred on by another Tory personality...
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Despite Snowden May won’t take no for any answer over mass surveillance
The security services are getting desperate. Over the last 4 years they, and their political figurehead May, have tried time and time again to push mass surveillance through Parliament. Whenever a...
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It’s time to use evidence not knee-jerks in deciding Britain’s drugs policy
Last week the House of Commons had an important debate on UK drugs policy. The speeches suggested that, slowly, politicians are inching towards a reform of legislation which more closely resembles the...
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