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NOVANEWS Y.M.C.A. - 'Christian' Partners in the Murder of 3 Asylum Seekers Maybe it’s unsurprising but even Britain’s 2 most liberal dailies, the Guardian and Independent, have not covered the triple suicide of the Serkhi family in Glasgow last week. A Russian family, they threw themselves to their deaths from a 15th floor flat in Glasgow, the highest such flats in Europe and as you can see from the pictures, slum dwellings par excellence. As Immigration Officers were banging on the door and the YMCA were preparing to evict them, the family who were escaping from the attentions of the Russian Secret Police, decided to end it all. In any other situation this would be a situation where charges of manslaughter or muder were brought. As it is nothing has been done nor will it be done legally b...

NOVANEWS For Immediate Use  Bloody Sunday – Set The Truth Free! Bloody Sunday, 30th January 1972 was when British soldiers murdered fourteen peaceful demonstrators in Derry. The relatives are still waiting for justice. Shaun Woodward, Britain’s Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is refusing to release the Saville Inquiry Report into Bloody Sunday simultaneously to the families of those murdered and to the wounded. Mr Woodward will receive the report on Monday 22nd March. He is saying that he will not release it to the relatives until it is checked for issues of civil liberties and national security. Birmingham based Cahill McElhinney, brother of Kevin who was killed by soldiers on Bloody Sunday, said: “We are seriously concerned about the timing of the report being released.  It is s...

NOVANEWS   Make sure Solihull’s BNP Councillor is thrown into the dustbin of history on 6th May. Together we can make a difference. Days of Action in Chelmsley Wood ·         Saturday 27th March                                  Saturday 10th April ·         Saturday 24th April Meet for 10.30am in the Car park in Meriden Park off Moorend Avenue, B37 for leafleting.  For more information: 07502 396 028 makethebnphistory@googlemail.com Join the ‘Make the BNP history in Solihull’ facebook group I'm gonna tell all you fascists you may be surprised The people in this world are getting organized You're bound to lose, you fascists are bound to lose  Woody Guthrie   The BNP’s Councillor for Chelmsley Wood is up for re-election on 6th May. Join with us to stop him being re-elected. T...

NOVANEWS Here’s what the leaflets say. George Galloway: No Hero for the Democratic Left “If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.” --George Galloway (The Guardian, 9/16/02) "In poor third world countries like Pakistan, politics is too important to be left to petty squabbling politicians. Pakistan is always on the brink of breaking apart into its widely disparate components. Only the armed forces can really be counted on to hold such a country together... Democracy is a means, not an end in itself." --George Galloway on General Musharraf’s coup against the elected government in Pakistan (The Mail on Sunday, 10/17/99) "I'm no friend of the Syrian r...

NOVANEWS Ethnic cleanser in London So what else is new? Ok, I know a zio ethnic cleanser in London is nothing new but this one is in the act of ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem right now and still he's welcome in certain quarters in the UK. This guy is so despicable that even the Palestine Solidarity Campaign realises it: URGENT ACTION: Protest against Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, 22nd March, 5pm, London Nir Barkat, the mayor of Jerusalem behind the announcement of 1,600 new settlement units in East Jerusalem, will be visiting London early next week. A total of 50,000 housing units have been planned in the coming years - doubling the settler population - and reducing the Palestinian population to a third. He will be speaking at Chatham House (10 St James's Square, London SW1Y 4LE). Come along ...

NOVANEWS A "progressive moment"? posted by lenin Mehdi Hasan has a powerful piece in today's Guardian attacking liberal "defeatism", and pointing out that the majority of the public are well to the left of New Labour and most of the political and media classes. It's true. People see what's coming. More people are frightened of deep cuts than are worried about the deficit. They should be frightened. The level of public sector cuts being entertained by all mainstream parties are extraordinary, unprecedented. Labour's spending plans, in light of most independent analyses, amount to deep cuts across all government departments. Leaked treasury documents disclosed that the cuts would amount to 9% across all departments, even higher than most experts estimated. If the NHS was ringfenced to prote...

NOVANEWS  posted by: lenin  Beaten, bullied, shoved, kicked, degraded... The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said it has uncovered significant evidence of abuse among producers supplying Britain's big supermarkets. The inquiry includes reports from meat factory workers who say they have had frozen burgers thrown at them by line managers, and accounts of pregnant women being forced to stand for long periods or perform heavy lifting under threat of the sack. It also contained reports from women with heavy periods and people with bladder problems on production lines being denied toilet breaks and forced to endure the humiliation of bleeding and urinating on themselves. One-fifth of workers interviewed, from across England and Wales, reported being pushed, kicked or having things...

NOVANEWS The Iraq war may have convinced other Arab dictatorships to not upset Washington and London, but seriously, the British elite is forced to defend the debacle like this? The Foreign Secretary told Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry into the war that Britain’s willingness to follow through on threats of military force had made some Arab governments more willing to “do business” with the UK. Accepting that “a lot of people” strongly opposed the 2003, Mr Miliband said that Britain’s reputation had actually been strengthened in some parts of the Middle East. “People in the region do respect those who are willing to see through what they say [they will do],” Mr Miliband said. “Even people who disagreed with it say to me, ‘You’ve sent a message that when you say something, you mean it’.” He...

NOVANEWS Dear All, you'll have got the earlier message about the cancellation of the 1.00 p.m. ICAHD talk by Jeff & Ghada. The reason for this is that the pro-Zionist Birmingham student Guild has imposed a disciplinary sentence on BUFoPSoc, namely that they must cease all operations until a new committee is elected in April.   The 'offence' is that when they arranged the Gilad Atzmon talk for Mon 22 Feb, they failed to get the speaker to sign a 'freedom of speech' form which has to be scrutinised and approved by the Guild before the event. IS THAT FREEDON OF SPEECH ? You might recall that the Guild earlier tried to have that event cancelled on the grounds that no risk assessment had been submitted - which had not been done because the event was off site. As a result BUFoPSoc withdrew f...

NOVANEWS Antony Loewenstein The list of Australian corporate flaks backing Israel’s hit in Dubai is growing. Israel is a state religion. Must support. Must back. Must love. Must not question. Take Murdoch hack Alan Howe (a man with a long hatred of Arabs), here in Melbourne’s Herald Sun wildly supporting Israeli state terrorism and encouraging more death in the name of fighting terrorism: Just days off turning 50, al-Mabhouh knew he was a worthy target for assassination. Usually, he travelled with a team of bodyguards, but they couldn’t get seats on his flight, which was said to be the first leg of a weapons-buying trip to Thailand. To help secure the success of this well-thought-out killing, Mossad’s agents travelled on forged passports appearing to have been issued in Germany, France, I...