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NOVANEWS Please Forward Paul Mackney, former President of Birmingham Trades Union Council and Ex General Secretary of NATFHE, will be speaking at tomorrow’s protest on behalf of the Coalition of Resistance, a broad united national campaign against cuts and privatisation in our workplaces, community and welfare services founded Statement by Tony Benn in August 2010 DON’T LET THE TORY CUTS SMASH OUR PUBLIC SERVICES Build the fight back against Con Dem cuts Join the mass Protest at the Tory Party conference 12 noon this Sunday 3rd October Assemble Lionel Street, Birmingham B3 1AG by BT Tower Called by the Right to Work Campaign backed by PCS, CWU, NUJ, UCU, ASLEF, NUS, LRC and many other local union branches and campaigns  

NOVANEWS October 2nd, 2010 • Related • Filed Under Filed Under: Britain • Featured • Labour Party • Most read articles • Statements The positive outcome of the Labour leadership contest is that the new leader is not David Miliband, and the privatising, war supporting Blairites have been rejected. We should not underestimate the discarding of Blairism and New Labour by important sections of the labour movement. The Blairites tasted another major defeat the day before when Ken Livingstone won a crushing victory over Oona King to become Labour’s candidate for Mayor of London. However as we argue in this statement from Socialist Resistance Ed Miliband is only marginally different to his right-wing brother David. Ed Miliband in his maiden speech at Conference said that the Iraq war was wrong, ...

NOVANEWS LIVERPOOL SAT 9th OCT 12 Noon Assemble  Mount Pleasant Liverpool L3 5TQ Biggest left/Irish republican event in England Organised by Cairde na heireann James Larkin, the son of Irish parents, was born in Liverpool on 21st January 1876. When he was five years old he was sent to live with his grandparents in Newry in Ireland. Larkin returned to England in 1885 and found employment as a dock labourer. Converted to socialism, Larkin joined the Independent Labour Party in 1893 and spent his spare time selling The Clarion. In 1893 Larkin became a foreman dock-porter for T. & J. Harrison Ltd. The following year he was sacked when he went on strike with his men. Larkin remained active in the union and in 1906 he was elected General Organizer of the National Union of Dock Labourers (NUD...

  NOVANEWS   Please Forward DAY 3 OCTOBER 12                                                                   Build the fight back against Con Dem cuts... Join the mass Protest at the Tory Party conference 12 noon this Sunday 3rd October Assemble Lionel Street, Birmingham B3 1AG by BT Tower Called by the Right to Work Campaign backed by PCS, CWU, NUJ, UCU, ASLEF, NUS, LRC and many other local union branches and campaigns  

  NOVANEWS     Will ‘Free’ schools use qualified teachers? There is growing concern that ‘Free’ Schools will try emulate their private school friends and avoid employing trained teachers. Alasdair Smith, of the Anti Academies Alliance, thinks the government could be on dodgy ground. "I think these ministers have got the idea from their old private schools, where anyone can teach, without a formal qualification, but state-funded schools are different. The idea that free schools might not use qualified teachers would be very worrying for most parents because QTS is evidence that the teacher understands how to provide quality teaching and learning.” Free schools might not use qualified teachers http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/sep/28/free-schools-trained-teac...

  NOVANEWS         Will ‘Free’ schools use qualified teachers? There is growing concern that ‘Free’ Schools will try emulate their private school friends and avoid employing trained teachers. Alasdair Smith, of the Anti Academies Alliance, thinks the government could be on dodgy ground. "I think these ministers have got the idea from their old private schools, where anyone can teach, without a formal qualification, but state-funded schools are different. The idea that free schools might not use qualified teachers would be very worrying for most parents because QTS is evidence that the teacher understands how to provide quality teaching and learning.” Free schools might not use qualified teachers http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/sep/28/free-schools-trained-tea...

NOVANEWS Dear, Thousands of us have decided what 38 Degrees should do as the government plans cuts. Together we're going to push them to crack down on the billions we lose from tax dodgers every year. Right now Chancellor George Osborne is deciding what he'll cut. We're all going to be hit by the VAT rise in January and less money for services like schools, hospitals and the police. [1] Every year a selfish few rip us off by dodging billions in tax. It's a big problem - the government says every year we lose at least £42 billion in "uncollected" tax. [2] The government needs to stand up to tax cheats and make sure everybody, including billionaires, bankers and media moguls, pays their fair share.  So here's the plan. This week we're launching our "Crack Down on Tax Dodgers" petition to pil...

NOVANEWS The Guardian, 30 September 2010 [from Letters] • Mordechai Vanunu has been held in Israel, in and out of prison, for 24 years. Since his release from Ashkelon prison in 2004, where he spent 18 years, over 11 of them in solitary confinement, he has been subjected to repressive restrictions and constant harassment and numerous arrests. Despite this ongoing, oppressive treatment Mordechai has remained resilient and determined to survive. Now, as an example of his courage and resolve, he wants to mark the date of his brutal kidnapping by Mossad agents, from Rome, exactly 24 years ago today. Mordechai is asking all his sympathisers and supporters who are on Facebook to write on their pages as well as communicate worldwide a call for "Freedom for Vanunu, now". Mordechai should be allowe...

NOVANEWS This is the following discussion on Abul’s Facebook site last week: Abul ‘Abz’ Hussain feels like growing a moustache…hmmmm….       2 people like this. Shah ‘Aziz’ur Rahman You already have one Yesterday at 2:21am ·LikeUnlike Abul ‘Abz’ Hussain I mean proper one with no beard lol Yesterday at 2:35am ·LikeUnlike Shah ‘Aziz’ur Rahman Try it! You’ll look mexican lol Yesterday at 2:36am ·LikeUnlike Fazarnoor Zaman u wanna look lyk salman khan in dabaang don’t ya…you ugly rat! Yesterday at 2:41am ·LikeUnlike Abul ‘Abz’ Hussain I haven’t watched dabaang nor seen a trailer, just heard the name, any good? Yesterday at 2:43am ·LikeUnlike Fazarnoor Zaman http://www.mastione.com/wp-content/gallery/salman-khan-in/salman-khan-in-3-mastione.jpgu vaant 2 look like this ...

NOVANEWS  September 29, 2010 I don't much followed the antics of the Respect political party in Britain, but even I was surprised that one of its senior members would indulge in such conspicuous racism, anti-Jewish racism that is. Respect had no choice but to expel him, I imagine his views are only the tip of the iceberg as Dave Hill reports: "On Monday he re-published some banter that took place on Facebook between a senior figure in Respect called Abul Hussain and others. Respect's leadership responded by expelling Hussain. Their grounds? We are extremely upset to discover that recently published comments from one of our party members are indicative of anti-Semitism. The National Officers have conducted an investigation and met on Monday evening (27 September) to consider the matter. We ...