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Northern Voices: Guardian Response on Jeremy Corbyn
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Friday, 7 August 2015. Guardian Response on Jeremy Corbyn. Sent in by Trevor Hoyle from Media Lens. Media alert, we described 'the panic-driven hysterical hate-fest campaign' being waged against Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn right across the corporate media 'spectrum'. Readers' editor Chris Elliott responded. Elliot would only concede that. In the early days of Corbyn's charge, the readers rightly got a sniff that on occasions we weren't taking him seriously enough. That has changed.'. In rea...
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Northern Voices: A Justification for the 'Freedom Collective'?
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Saturday, 1 August 2015. A Justification for the 'Freedom Collective'? By what right did the Collective make the recommendation? Having been asked if they would accept recommendations from the Collective the Friends said they would be happy to consider any put forwards. These were duly offered, and the Friends were under no obligation to accept any of them. Who were the members of the Collective at the time? Did the members of the Collective exert undue influence". Taking over the building". Are excluded...
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Northern Voices: Creating 'Corporate Journalism' in Football
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Thursday, 6 August 2015. Creating 'Corporate Journalism' in Football. IN February Rangers Football Club was condemned for imposing a ban on the. According to the Trinity Mirror-owned title. The club’s chief executive, Derek Llambias, sent an email and fax on Monday evening saying it was no longer welcome at matches and press conferences. The. Said that despite the ban, it will. Continue to write the truth'. Llambias wrote to the club:. Editor Murray Foote said:. Rangers is the third club to have been exp...
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Northern Voices: Who Killed FREEDOM? – update 4 – August 2015
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Monday, 3 August 2015. 8211; update 4 – August 2015. REGULAR readers will recall this series began as an analytical report on the destruction of FREEDOM, the world’s oldest radical newspaper. Further investigation revealed that the Board of Trustees (FFP) legally responsible for safeguarding the newspaper was as seriously dysfunctional as the. Our immediate fear was that having closed down the paper in 2014, the collective would sell off the. Briefly outlined the decline of. Friends of Freedom Press (FFP).
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Northern Voices: Labour Party & Corbyn's Policy Proposals
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Monday, 10 August 2015. Labour Party and Corbyn's Policy Proposals. Last week Frank Cottrell Boyce said:. Only 25 percent of the population earns more than £30,000 a year. Most media professionals do (including me). For people like me, the country basically works. Politics doesn't affect me. Politics, for me, is about how other people are treated.'. I'm with Frank. I don't earn that sort of money any more but my pension reminds me that I used to. Add in my State Retirement Pension and I'm doing OK. There...
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Northern Voices: John Desmond Answers Anonymous:
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Saturday, 1 August 2015. John Desmond Answers Anonymous:. Are not helpful for two reasons. 8216;Anonymous’ does not answer any of the questions about the anarchist movement, a movement to which Andy Meinke made three references in his post. The references that Andy Meinke made were as follows:. 8216;the Anarchist Movement as a whole’. The anarchist movement today’. Everyone in the movement’. The ‘Friends of Freedom Press’. 8216;Anonymous’ makes statements about the. 8216;Friends of Freedom Press’. 8216;W...
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Northern Voices: Jim Petty: Radical Working-man Dies
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Wednesday, 5 August 2015. Jim Petty: Radical Working-man Dies. March 1933, died in Blackburn Hospital 10. Married to Mary (died 1989), one son Iain survives him. We call Jim Petty a radical northern anarchist we haven't even begun to describe his nature as a man and human being. Radical anarchism and decency grew in his soul as. His early interest in politics was in the Labour Party but he never voted Labour after the 1970s. Later he joined the. Independent Labour Party (ILP),. Nationally; Brian Behan's.
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Northern Voices: Reynolds left with egg on his face, as Stalybridge CLP votes for Corbyn!
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Monday, 10 August 2015. Reynolds left with egg on his face, as Stalybridge CLP votes for Corbyn! REYNOLDS (RIGHT); WITH STUART HALL AND LORD PENDRY. Although he increased his majority at the General Election in May, Jonathan Reynolds. MP, who represents the constituency of Stalybridge and Hyde, is becoming rather gaffe prone like his mentor and predecessor, James (work-for-your-dole) Purnell. Dubbed the Prince of Darkness, Mandelson came last in the election losing to Lemn Sissay, a black poet from Wigan.
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Northern Voices: Northern Anarchist Network
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The Northern Anarchist Network (NAN) is a regional body of both unaffiliated and organised anarchists. It was founded 16 years ago in Manchester Town Hall (see the report from Freedom, which is reproduced below). Conferences usually take place biannually. Its supporters joined many struggles including the anti-Jobseekers Allowance campaigns in the 1990s; the Manchester Social Forum; the Manchester electricians’campaign against the blacklist. Since 2003; the Tameside Care Workers strike. Report on the est...
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Northern Voices: Other Publications
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70th Anniversary of the Spanish Civil War. In 2006, Tameside Trade Union Council and other North West trade unionists brought out a booklet to commemorate the kick-off of the Spanish Civil War: now in its 3rd edition [Oct. 2009] the book has been extended from 20 to 28 A4-size pages and has a Preface that uses Noam Chomsky's. Essay ' Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship. To challenge Professor Paul Preston. S work 'The Spanish Civil War'. This 3rd edition booklet by trade unionists defends Orwell's. Spani...
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