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Solidarity Demand all PFI Contract Details |
Solidarity, Scotland’s Socialist Movement today launched a drive to have the financial details of all PFI contracts in Scotland made publicly available.
Following the ruling by Kevin Dunion, Scotland’s Information Commissioner, that NHS Lothian must publish financial details of their PFI contract with Consort Healthcare, Solidarity Co-Convenors Tommy Sheridan and Rosemary Byrne are demanding that all financial details of PFI contracts in Scotland’s public services should be publicly available.
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Sheridan - "Labour rigged the election" |
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Solidarity Co-Convenor Tommy Sheridan today welcomed the report by Ron Gould, the Canadian academic who reported on the Scottish Parliament elections. Tommy said:
"Labour at Westminster and Holyrood have been found guilty of attempting to rig the elections to their advantage in a manner which would fit with a tin pot third world dictator. We in Solidarity have always argued for separate ballot papers and separate days for local government elections, we have now been proved correct by Ron Gould's report. Solidarity were deprived of at least one seat in Glasgow by Labour's gerrymandering of the election, people voted for us but were deprived of their vote. We are confident that, if the Gould report is implemented, we will be elected next time."
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Mohammed Atif Siddique - 8 years for "thought crimes" |
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At Edinburgh High Court today, Lord Carloway sentenced Mohammed Atif Siddique - convicted last month of "terrorism" offences - to a total of 8 years in jail. The sentence is to run from the time Mr Siddique was first taken into custody.
And in a surprise development, the judge criticised Mr Siddique's solicitor, Aamer Anwar, over a statement he released on the day of Mr Siddique's conviction. The judge is considering whether to initiate contempt proceedings against Aamer Anwar. Such a move would be unprecedented and would be sure to send shock waves through the legal profession.
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SOLIDARITY TRADE UNION RALLY Speakers: Tommy Sheridan SOLIDARITY Co-Convener, Gary Clarke CWU pc plus Glasgow Day Care Workers, PCS, Glasgow Social Work Dept. Renfield St Stephens Church, Bath Street, Glasgow Thursday Nov. 1st 7 – 9pm NATIONAL SHOP STEWARDS NETWORK CONFERENCE Saturday 01 December Central Hotel, Glasgow 11am Speakers include: Bob Crow (RMT General Secretary) Janice Godrich (PCS National President) |
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National Shop Stewards Network conference |
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Saturday 1 December
Central Hotel Glasgow.
11am
Speakers include Bob Crow, General Secretary of the RMT and Janice Godrich, National President of PCS.
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Reject Royal Mail's Insult |
Vote No and reinstate the action
Postal workers up and down the country have taken part in a courageous fight against a vicious management intent on destroying jobs and postal worker's conditions, while preparing the industry for privatisation.
We have taken both official and unofficial action over the past few months involving the loss of two weeks wages for all posties, and for some up to 4 weeks which has caused hardship in many cases. Despite this the strikes have remained strong. In fact, as solid as they were on day one of the dispute.
Against this background it’s with anger that postal workers will view the “deal” that the CWU Postal Executive Committee (PEC) has agreed to recommend to our members in a ballot. An agreement which will mean a wage cut in real terms and a real attack on terms and conditions with more to come in the near future.
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Unsubscribe from the war on terror |
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This is your chance to say NO, I didn’t sign up to a world governed by fear culture & accepting of racial discrimination. I didn’t sign up to secret detention, torture, rendition and the ill treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.  Amnesty has launched a major new campaign that puts social media at the heart of human rights campaigning. The 'Unsubscribe' campaign aims to unite and activate public opinion online, from the grassroots up, against terrorism and against human rights abuses in the 'war on terror'. Unsubscribe has the support of Moazzam Begg, the British man formerly held without charge for over two years at Guantanamo Bay. Mr Begg said: "Removing freedoms gives rise to hostility and leads to terrorism; terrorism allows governments to justify the restriction of liberty. We must Unsubscribe to both." |
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Nigeria - Student Leaders framed |
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Worldwide embassy protests on Tuesday 23 October.
Release Saburi Akande Akinola, Taiwo Hassan Soweto and Olatunde Dairo now! Three student leaders of a major Nigerian university are being held in prison on trumped up charges of conspiracy to murder. They were elected by the students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, to fight against plans of the university and state authorities to commercialise and undermine education provision and to attack the students’ rights to organise and resist. www.nigeriasolidarity.org |
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Solidarity with Glasgow City Council Workers |
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Workers in Glasgow's Learning Disability and Physical Disability day care services have been on indefinite strike action from 16 October. Once again Unison members in Glasgow are using the weapon that the City Council understand best - industrial muscle. Eighty-four per cent of members voted to take strike action in the recent ballot. The strike involves over 250 Unison members across all 12 Centres in the City.This excellent vote demonstrates the anger felt and the desire to take industrial action. |
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Postal Workers - It's A fight to the finish |
The battle lines have been drawn between Royal Mail and the postal workers, without doubt we are heading for a fight to the finish. The very future of our industry and the union is at stake. During the summer period the 130,000 postal workers massively supported a series of strikes causing a huge backlog in mail and forcing some small concessions and the management back round the table. |
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