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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008By Sean O’Neill | Sir Ian Blair is expected to announce his resignation as Metropolitan Police Commissioner this afternoon. Sources told The Times that the pressures of recent months had forced Sir Ian, who became commissioner in February 2005, to consider his position. He is understood to be standing down before Boris Johnson, the new Tory Mayor of London, takes control of the Metropolitan Police Authority next week. “It is a ...
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Another Education is Possible
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008Socialist Review | The testing regime in schools is breaking down. Before the summer break SATs papers were lost or badly marked; pupils were absenting themselves from the tests and head teachers were demanding an end to these wasteful and useless exams. One parent from Sunderland, truck driver Stuart McAnaney, has two sons: James, 11, and nine year old Matthew, at St Anne’s RC Primary School. He said, “I ...
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Tortured Briton wins US battle over papers
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008A British resident now held at Guantanamo Bay has won an order in the US courts requiring the country's government to hand over material that might help his defence against terrorism charges, it was revealed at the High Court in London Binyam Mohamed, 30, insists that he admitted to plotting a dirty radioactive bomb attack on the United States only after being tortured by having his penis cut with a razor. Recently ...
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Human rights concern over 42 days
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008Government plans to enable police to hold terror suspects without charge for 42 days have caused "considerable concern" at Europe's human rights body. The Council of Europe's anti-torture committee said suspects should be taken to prison after 14 days as police cells were inadequate for longer detention. The controversial law was passed by MPs in June and will be voted on in the Lords in a fortnight. The government said it was ...
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Censorship and Freedom of Speech
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008By Craig Murray | This is the key section from my new book which the publisher is unwilling to publish due to legal threats from Schillings libel lawyers, acting on behalf of the mercenary commander Tim Spicer: " Peter Penfold was back in the UK. He was interviewed separately. Both Penfold and Spicer were interviewed under caution, as suspects for having broken the arms embargo. Then, suddenly, Tony Blair intervened. On 11 ...
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Tories attack Labour surveillance schemes
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008Kablenet.com | Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, has criticised the ID-card scheme, among other government projects, in his speech at the Conservative conference. In Birmingham on Tuesday, Grieve said the public is "fed up with the creeping growth of a surveillance society which intrudes into their private lives and loses their personal data". He said the government had "created the worst of all worlds", by ...
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Migrants exploited for cheap labour
Monday, September 29th, 2008Corporate Watch | Detainees at the Campsfield House immigration prison in Oxfordshire are being “exploited for cheap labour” due to staff cuts, the Oxford and District Trades Union Council has revealed. The rejected asylum seekers, who are locked up for lengthy periods pending their deportation, are being paid £5 for six-hour shifts of cleaning and kitchen work. A statement by the Oxford and District TUC said: “We maintain our ...
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Former spy chief joins 42-day detention critics
Saturday, September 27th, 2008By Duncan Campbell | The government's 42 days counterterrorism legislation came under fresh fire last night when a former director general of MI5 said the provision to hold suspects for six weeks without charge was excessive. Dame Stella Rimington became the second former MI5 chief in three months to come out against the controversial measures. "It's too much, quite frankly," she said when asked about ...
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Smile please, you’re on 1,000 CCTV cameras
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008By Richard Down | ALMOST 1,000 local authority CCTV cameras provide surveillance on Merseyside as people go about their everyday lives, the Daily Post has found. Additional CCTV cameras are located on Merseytravel trains and buses, more still monitor customers outside bars, while thousands more fill workplaces across the region. A survey, as part of the Daily Post’s personal data special investigation, found there are 318 cameras owned and run by ...
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Councils ordered to stop snooping on residents
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Councils will be ordered to stop spying on local residents amid Government concerns over the continuing creep of the surveillance state. By Rosa Prince | Ministers from the Department of Communities and the Home Office have undertaken a thorough review of official surveillance powers, some of which are open to public bodies such local authorities, the NHS and even the Coastguard. The review was triggered by ministers' concerns that ...
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Climate change demo cost police £6m
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008The estimated cost of policing a week-long protest against climate change stands at just under £6 million, it has been disclosed. Around £5.9 million has been spent policing the Camp for Climate Action event which was held last month close to Kingsnorth Power Station near Hoo, Kent. The money, revealed to BBC South East following a Freedom of Information Act request, was spent on officers, accommodation, air support and planning. But Kent Police ...
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London Protesters Demand an End to US Coups
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Venezuela Analysis | Scores of solidarity campaigners picketed the US embassy in London on Wednesday night before a huge rally at the National Union of Journalists head office to demand an end to US interference in Latin America. Responding to ongoing coup attempts in Bolivia and Venezuela, NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear said that it was ironic that he was protesting outside the US embassy when its government had ...
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Cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes–”We fear another cover-up”
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008WSWS | Patricia da Silva Armani is the cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes. She spoke to the World Socialist Web Site on the eve of the coroner’s inquest convened into the innocent Brazilian’s brutal murder by a police gun squad. On July 22, 2005, Jean Charles was shot to death on a tube train at Stockwell station by an anti-terrorist unit that was investigating the failed ...
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John Pilger: This conflict is repeating the historical patterns of imperialism
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Veteran investigative journalist John Pilger is warning that the extension of the Afghanistan war into Pakistan has grim echoes of the past. “There are striking parallels between US actions in Afghanistan and Pakistan with spread of Vietnam war into Cambodia and Laos,” he told Socialist Worker. “Indeed, there is an historical pattern – whenever an imperial power gets stuck in one region, it will try to attack another, often disastrously. Caesar and ...
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Younger teens ‘to get ID cards’
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008Identity cards could be handed out to children as young as 14, a home office minister has suggested. The first ID cards are due to be offered to 16 and 17-year-olds from 2010 as part of a plan to introduce the controversial scheme in stages. But Meg Hillier said the age range was still "up for grabs" and could be lowered "if they prove popular". She also said the scheme might be ...
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