Monthly Archives: June 2015

Austerity Is Hardly Inevitable

Seumas Milne The Guardian Weekly 26.06.15 Tories have no mandate for what they want to unleash. But to stop them, resistance must go beyond parliament. “The austerity programme needs to be opposed in parliament, but also with industrial action, demostrations … Continue reading

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“WE ARE MANY” Repeat showing on Sunday 7th June 2015 at 13.00 York City Screen Picturehouse – 119 minutes

On 15 February 2003, over 15 million people marched through the streets of 800 cities around the world to try to avert the war in Iraq. Director Amir Amirani’s fearless, thought-provoking documentary reveals the remarkable inside story behind the biggest … Continue reading

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Lords ‘will block the Tory bid to scrap Human Rights Act’

Concerns grow over government plans to curtail role of European court Patrick Wintour and Alan Travis The Guardian Weekly 29.05.15 The new shadow lord chancellor, Lord Falconer, has predicted that the Lords will throw out any attempt by the new … Continue reading

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Cutting the Cloth: Ambition, Austerity and the Case for Rethinking UK Military Spending

This new report by Richard Reeve (13 May 2015) has been published by Oxford Research Group. The report analyses the UK’s past, current and future commitments to funding its armed forces in relation to other components of British international spending … Continue reading

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