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2005
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KILLER COPS ON LOOSE IN LONDON TWO FILTH FROM SO19, the special firearms unit, who murdered Harry Stanley were let back on the street even though they could still face charges for unlawfully killing him after an inquest jury rejected their claims that their lives were in danger. It also emerged that Sharman, one of the officers, continued to give shooting lessons to "hundreds" of officers after Stanley's death - while he was suspended from active firearms duty. Mr Stanley, a father of three, was shot in the head after police thought he was carrying a gun, but was in fact holding a table leg in a carrier bag. Harry Stanley's widow said this was a kick in the teeth. In November's London Calling we reported the SO19 strike after the two officers were suspended. Now it seems the two officers who will return to work as cuntastables are to be let loose again. The filth can't afford a strike and will anyway bend the rules as they see fit especially after two officers - who are both facing potential murder charges - have been judged worthy of having their suspensions lifted and returned to policing. Looking back on the case, and recalling that the jury disbelieved them on something as serious as shooting a member of the public, it looks as thought the Met will never suspend any officers. Once again the laws do not apply to the filth as they see fit to do whatever the hell they want. The Justice for Harry Stanley Campaign are still fighting on, after six long years, to see the officers brought to justice - and you can show your support. Get in touch with them at PO Box 29644, London E2 8TS. BATTERED BOBBIES WE HEAR THAT attacks on the police in Hackney have risen more than 150% in the last three years! If that doesn't banish the January blues, we don't know what will! Although this leaves Hackney still ninth in the London league table, we have high hopes that next year will see the borough in the top five, and maybe challenging for a place in Europe. Chief Inspector Neil Seabridge said, predictably, that he thought it was disgusting and nasty that people would want to smack his poor, armoured coppers. As Mandy Rice-Davies said, he would, wouldn't he? The lickspittle Liberal Democrats have lined up firmly behind the filth, an anonymous spokesman insisting that a zero tolerance approach toward those who battered bobbies just doing their jobs. Just the sort of middle class wank we expect from them, running dogs of the police as they are. Sadly, Hackney (126 assaults) lags quite a way behind league leaders Westminster (287 assaults): but then Westminster have a larger number of police to assault. A dark horse which may upset our hopes for the next few years is Lambeth, which has seen a massive 375% rise in cops being smacked in the last thirty-six months. FARMER'S
MARKET SURVEY: BROADWAY MARKET HAS changed a lot in the last year. Suddenly there are new pubs, galleries, estate agents and boutiques as well as expensive new flats springing up around it. Broadway market now has a weekly Farmers Market selling organic food, jewellery and £3 loaves of bread. To find out more about what people think of the Farmer Market, Hackney Independent interviewed 50 shoppers at the market and 100 households on Whiston and Goldsmiths estates. We found that most estate residents were glad to see some activity in the market, but clearly recognise that it is not aimed at them. Many would like to see the market selling things they need like toiletries and kids' clothes at prices they can afford. Meanwhile, those who are using the market have no idea that the area is becoming divided - between a working class majority who are having to put up with bad housing and run down services, and a new breed of rich, self-interested young professionals. This is not merely an accident of the property market. The gentrification of the area is something that is urged on by Hackney Council's regeneration plans. As they privatise public services, shut down community services, run down estates and close schools they want to bring in a new class of people with money to 'improve the area'. The middle-class Labour council sees these new-comers as 'their kind of people', while they look down on those who live on estates. The view
from Whiston & Goldsmiths Estates: The view
from Farmers Market shoppers: Whiston
& Goldsmiths residents say: Farmers
Market shoppers say: THIS
ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE HACKNEY INDEPENDENT NEWSLETTER. MAX CALLER HONOURED HACKNEY'S FORMER CHIEF Executive Max Caller was recently made a Commander of the Order of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for services to local government. What a fucking joke! After just four years at Hackney Council (and it seems like much longer!) he's managed to preside over a catalogue of stupidity, incompetence and downright attacks on the borough's unfortunate residents. Whilst the council brag about his work with Mayor Jules Pipe, claiming that everything's nice and rosy because of Max, the reality is very different. Some
years ago, we had more libraries in the borough. We had more leisure
facilities. We had nurseries. And now? "In many areas the Council
is now delivering a higher quality of services to residents,"
the council's propaganda sheet claims. As though a balanced budget,
built on cuts to services needed by the poorest were some sort of
step forwards. Of course, had there been any sort of financial responsibility
at the top then the fucking fiasco of the Clissold Leisure Centre
(see It seems that Mr Caller has retired early, due to ongoing health problems. We at London Class War wish him a short and painful retirement. If this is how he leaves the borough before the job's finished, thank fuck he he's gone now. ITS GOOD TO TALK! BARNSLEY
BNP ORGANISER Paul Harris who is involved in a campaign to stop a
local community centre opening,you can phone Paul on his home phone
number 01226 725221. NOT ALL IS PUKKA FOR JAMIE JAMIE OLIVER, THAT cheesy smirking git we all have grown to despise, has hit the tabloids once again and it wasn’t good news for James’ yuppie restaurant FIFTEEN in trendy Hoxton, where yuppies, trendies and pseudo-artists try to make their name by sniffing arses all day in cappuccino bars, Tracy Emin, £3 a pint, sushi bars say no more. After being slated as a total con by numerous good food guides including Hardens who ranked Fifteen the worst restaurant in London, we got a Class War chum to book a reservation with the work’s phone and time. After getting through to the restaurant she was put straight on to a recording of Jamie himself - see the crap we put ourselves through? Jamie was droning on about himself and the virtues of his restaurant. She was told that if she pressed the number one on the phone she’d be put straight through to reservations. No sooner had she done that Jamie’s voice came on again “nice one guys, as you may know, Fifteen is a social venture that trains professional chefs to mentor and train unemployed youngsters... blah, blah…..” After
she got threw to a real person she was told that the number she dialled
was a special rate number and that she was charged over the odds for
the pleasure of hearing Jamie’s voice, she asked if there was
an alternative number she could phone to get a reservation and was
told NO. STUPID BOY! PRINCE HARRY’S RECENT swastika-wearing stupidity came as a surprise to us. We knew the foul Windsor klan were on the loony end of the right: but we thought that even someone as intellectually challenged as Prince Harry would realise that wearing a Wehrmacht uniform and a swastika armband was a bad idea. Clearly we were wrong! Even
for seasoned royal watchers, the incident is an amazing one. Most
ordinary people would recognise that dressing up as some sort of,
well, Nazi, is neither big nor clever. And that’s without having
bodyguards or highly-paid advisors to prevent anything happening to
them! Perhaps some cruel aide thought they’d have a laugh and
drop Harry in the shit – not that that would be tricky. Fergie’s bizarre intervention into the controversy left us gobsmacked! Didn’t she die or something some years ago? For her to come out and act as Harry’s apologist shows she’s still a shameless royal lickspittle. Perhaps one day they’ll let her back into Buckingham Palace. Prince Harry’s let the cat out of the bag, though. We expect that it will prove somewhat harder to leave this behind him than he suspects. It’s clear where Harry’s sympathies lie: and it’s also clear that neither Charles nor William – nor Harry – must ever be King. CRY BABY CRY! ONE OF THE problems of a monthly newsletter is having something unforeseen happen just after you go to press. Sadly
at the end of last year we were caught out by David Blunkett’s
resignation… or was it Charles Clarke who resigned? Rarely in
the field of Parliamentary politics can one figure have been replaced
by another figure so similar as to be fucking indistinguishable! They
both bearded wankers with a penchant for fucking other people over
– all that’s changed is the insignificant detail of their
names. Having said that, the most amusing thing about the replacement of like with like was the arsy way that Blunkett blamed his downfall on some sort of millionaires’ conspiracy against him! He made out he was some poor little working class boy against whom all the nasty rich people ganged up. Like fuck! Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned: and when Blunkett found that out to his cost, he couldn’t handle it. LEST WE FORGET ROGER SYLVESTER, HARRY STANLEY, BRIAN DOUGLAS, CHRISTOPHER ALDER, WAYNE DOUGLAS, SHIJI LAPITE, RICHARD O`BRIEN, JOY GARDNER, JAMES ASHLEY, ROCKY BENNET, ALTON MANNING, ASETA SIMMS, GLEN HOWARD… Killed by CS gas, long handed batons, restraining belts and guns by the Police & Prison Officers, 90% were not British,70% were black, 100% were working class, let’s not forget them and their families’ struggle for justice in the year to come. CLASS
WAR ISSUE 87 OUT NOW! NOT IN OUR GRAVEYARD! Many people in Hackney hate the police. This is hard to forget, when you consider the amount of abuse the bullies in blue hand out to the borough’s residents. Talk to the average person on our estates, and you’ll find the majority of people will have a story or two to tell about their views of the local filth. We could probably fill London Calling with what they say. There’s some good news, though! In Stoke Newington last month, locals smashed up the 1909 memorial to PC William Tyler, in Abney Park Cemetery. If you ask me it was a bloody good idea! I don’t like walking the dog round the graveyard and seeing a pig’s grave there. Traditionally Abney Park was an alternative graveyard where working class people could be buried. Now it’s a nature reserve. Whose great idea was it to bury Tyler there? Surely it’s daft to bury a cop in a cemetery full of working class graves. Though they say that the filth are part of the community, we disagree. They weren’t part of the community even in 1909 when PC Tyler met his death. Interestingly, Tyler was killed in the Tottenham Outrage of 1909 by armed robbers alleged to be anarchists. He was shot in the face after confronting the robbers and demanding they surrender. Another dead cop ‘hero’… Tottenham must have the highest number of filth deaths in the country! Detective Chief Inspector Ian Chiverton, Hackney’s pitiful answer to Inspector Morse, voiced his disgust at the attack on the memorial and swore it would be repaired. We at London Calling would like to ask whose money will be spent on this Hackney Outrage, the renovation. Why not simply dig him up, take the big obnoxious headstone with a foul police tit on it, and dump it in another graveyard where the majority of locals don’t despise the filth. If they can find one. HEY! That’s an idea – to dig him up, that is! DIARY DATES Friday 11 – Sunday 13 February: Newcastle Anarchist Film Festival. Visit www.projectile.org.uk for information. They’ve a range of events, with speakers including someone from CW! Saturday 19 February: Class War! Mass civil disobedience is planned by the toffs of the Countryside Alliance. Let’s get out there and smash their demonstrations, their illegal hunts and stop their nonsense once and for all! Sunday March 5: Miners Return to Work Anniversary Rally & Social @ The Fox, Stainforth, Doncaster. Organised by Hatfield Main Branch NUM The Mining Communities Advice Centre in conjunction with Class War. Saturday June 11: Norwich’s Anarchist Bookfair. A top day out for all – check out twotins.tripod.com for latest details.
May 2005
WHAT A CARRY ON! AT LAST
THE votes are counted and we can get on with normal life again, without
the fear of being confronted by politicians, their lackeys and lickspittles,
again – at least until next year (if you live in London). There
can rarely have been such a dire campaign as the one we’ve just
endured. The RUC did gain Bethnal Green and Bow – but by a wafer-thin majority which should see them rebuffed at the next election. The RUC claim to be a socialist party – but they’re clearly not! There is only one mention of ‘socialist’ in their manifesto – and that’s when the Scottish Socialist Party’s referred to! And socialism doesn’t even get a look-in. Reports reach us that had Oona King said but once she had opposed the war, then she’d have been returned as Bethnal Green’s MP: hardly a resounding vote of confidence in the carpetbagging dictators’ lickspittle Galloway. The BNP, who had had high hopes of success this year, failed to increase their vote significantly. They got nearly 200,000, up just 0.55% on 2001. Although Griffin got 4,240 votes in Keighley, he retained his deposit and declared that he was very happy with his filthy party’s progress. In Barking, where the peculiar Margaret Hodge was re-elected, the BNP received 16.9% of the vote; though not an apocalyptic level of support, it is clear that in the future, and on an equally low turnout, the BNP could snatch that seat. Some work clearly needs to be done there in the future. Veritas and UKIP both did appalingly. UKIP lost their deposits in at least 451 seats, costing it around £225,000 – money they can ill afford to lose, as potential donors won’t want to back a bunch of losers! In the week before the election, the UKIP leader, Roger Knapman, claimed that he scented success in Thanet or Totnes – in neither seat did they get anywhere near victory. Veritas did even worse, Kilroy-Silk only just managing to save his deposit in Erewash with nearly 3,000 votes. We’ll spare the blushes of the other 20-odd Veritas candidates! All told, some interesting election results. The tone of the new government’s been set by the return of the abhorrent Blunkett to take charge of work and pensions, which is almost certainly bad news for dolees up and down the land. The re-introduction of the ID cards bill seems certain to follow swiftly on from the Queen’s Speech, and unless something strange happens, we seem to be in for some severe and bitter attacks on the working class. Blair knows his time’s nearly up, and like Thatcher he’s got some devilish schemes up his sleeve. HACKNEY RESULTS SADLY
BOTH LABOUR candidates in Hackney were elected. The disgraceful Diane
Abbott was returned to Parliament for the fourth time, whilst newcomer
Meg Hillier beat off an ineffectual challenge from the RUC to take
Hackney South & Shoreditch. HACKNEY INDEPENDENT
THE TRUTH BEHIND THE CACIA DELI THE NEW CACIA deli in swanky Church Street, Stoke Newington, charges £3 a pie and £2.30 for a slice of French cheese. The deli, which has been open since the start of the year, has a dark secret their managers would prefer you not to know. Behind the posh façade and shelves stocked full of organic food and fair-trade products at unfair prices they are not so fair to their staff. These are mainly Polish students trying to make ends meet. London Calling, who recently met a Polish ex-employee in a local pub were told that the deli was hellbent on paying their staff £2.00 /hr and no more, and that when he asked for more money when he worked until 7.30pm he was sacked. He now works in a pub that pays the minimum wage, at least. So all you fair-trade conscious people out there you know now what the Cacia are up to. PSSST…WANNA BUY SOME COKE IT’S FAIR TRADE! AN ORGANISATION
CALLED DAFT (Drugs and Fair Trade), which live up to their name, and
based in Camden Town has called on the Camden’s street-based
drug dealers to make sure they only sell fair trade drugs. GALLOWAY WATCH THE LAST
MONTH has been a good one for Galloway watchers. Never in the history
of British politics can so many have gained so much amusement from
the mishaps of one man! Speaking of respect, recent reports reveal that Galloway’s wife’s divorcing him, for showing her NO respect! It appears that when the RUC was established, his wife, Dr Amineh Abu-Zayyad, couldn’t believe the ‘Respect’ label – ““I should tell you that when he told me his new party was going to be called Respect, I went upstairs and cried. How can he call it this when he doesn’t even treat his own wife with respect?” she said. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned! However, in a very bizarre development, Galloway claimed that all the stories of him having affairs with other women were some sort of strange concoction of an unnamed intelligence agency! Frankly, Galloway’s famous for his roving eye, and it comes as no surprise to us that his wife’s found out about it. Since winning Bthnal Green and Bow, Galloway’s promised to hound Blair out of office! Whether he’ll achieve this ambitious aim is anyone’s guess, but we suspect it’s unlikely that Galloway will succeed where so many others have failed. However, as Blair’s said he’ll stand down soon anyway, it’s even money that Galloway will claim the credit for it when he finally does go. TOURISTS SUBJECTED TO TORTURE TOURISTS
STUCK ON the London Eye recently for two hours had to put up with
a group in the opposite pod dressed in 50s outfits singing stupid
songs and behaving like loonies. One tourist who complained that “Being
stuck on the Eye wasn’t the problem, we had to suffer mad people
singing and waving at us, only later did we realise that it was the
mayors and pearly queens of London”. The Eye’s management
invited, free of charge 10 London borough mayors and the Pearly Queen
of the Old Kent Road, Doreen Golding, who decided to make the best
of the situation. She said: "We had hampers of wine so we made
sure we drank all that, and when that kicked in we had a nice sing-song
to pass the time." HARINGEY SOLIDARITY GROUP HSG are
a collective of local people who want to get rid of the current oppressive
and unfair system which places profit and power before people's real
needs. The only effective way to do this is for ordinary people to
get organised, fight back and take over all the decision-making power
in our communities and workplaces. We encourage people to spread awareness
and solidarity, co-operation and mutual aid amongst each other, and
to build up the skills and confidence to be able to run things for
ourselves. To that end we support and participate in local campaigns,
spread ideas and help create effective opposition to the powers that
be. NOT SO COOL (C)RAP BAND AFTER
BEING FORCE-FED about that recent royal wedding farce, we bring you
some sickening news that a Hackney rap band are getting together to
release a song about Charles and Camilla. But not, as you may think,
against the wedding but for it! URGH! The song called Elizabethan
Reggae, which has been ripped off from another song with the lyrics
changed about a bit was released on the wedding day, April 8. .Ray
Carless (we didn’t make that name up) who is producing the record
said Charles and Camilla are getting a real raw deal (get the sick
bag out), that everyone is attacking them and trying to be politically
correct. The fact that Charles and the rest of the royals have been
swindling millions off the backs of ordinary people hasn’t crossed
his mind and he has no idea what the royal parasites are about. Here’s
a verse from the new song which will no doubt attract the youth of
today in their thousands, THE POWER OF THE PRESS OFTEN IT IS only In books, pamphlets, posters, alternative newspapers or radio from abroad that we manage to know what goes on elsewhere, or when we meet someone who has been involved directly in some actions, because so often “our” so called free press reports nothing but trivia. For example for the last three years or more they have been showing the wrong pictures from Palestine. The Israelis’ brutal regime has gone unannounced with their ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. The media are not reporting the cold-blooded murders of children, women and men in the great Israel land grab. Why have so few people in the media taken up this story? Journalists are a sorry lot, the more satellite dishes you have, the less news you get. G8 BITS FAST-FOOD
GIANT McDonald’s is planning to close two of its city centre
branches during this summer’s G8 protests. ?The Foreign Office has confirmed it will not pay for any damage caused by G8 demonstrators during the weekend of July 2 and 3, when the world’s leaders stay at Gleneagles in Perthshire. ?We hear
from Dundee Sheriff Court where a number of callow youths were being
dealt with after a football affray. Milling about afterwards, one
was heard to say to his mate: "Are you going to G8 then?",
a reference of course to the economic summit of world leaders in July. ANTIFA NEWS ON APRIL 3, we held a packed meeting at a central London venue to kickstart our activities for the rest of the year. Several speakers gave fascinating speeches about anti-fascism past, present and future, but none was so well received as that by Morris Beckman. His talk was filled with enthralling anecdotes about his time with the 43 Group. Other speakers addressed the issues of where we go from here. The opposition have been building up their strength and militant anti-fascism is definitely as relevant now as it was in the 90s. A large BNP (British National Party) meeting was held in a village just outside Halifax on Easter Sunday (27/03/05). The BNP leader, Nick Griffin was present at the meeting, and on the agenda was party strategy for the May elections, and also the demonstration coinciding with Nick Griffin answering his bail at Halifax police station on April 6th. At short notice, a mobilisation was organised to counter the meeting. Due to police presence on the day, the response to the meeting would have to be short and sweet. So thirty anti-fascists pulled up outside the meeting and within seconds were hurling half bricks and rocks at the BNP security, who ran inside the meeting hall. BNP activists cars were smashed (most car insurance doesn't cover vandalism). Job done, and a quick getaway was made. No injuries, or arrests made. For further information about Antifa, write to them c/o the London CW address, visit the website (www.antifa.org.uk) or email londonantifa@yahoo.com. TOP TRAVEL TIPS There will be quite a few ticket inspectors at East Ham station and the surrounding area and people looking for ticket touts over the next 2-3 weeks.
DIARY DATES Saturday 4 June – Class War confererence – details from your local member. Saturday 11 June 10am – 7pm – Norwich Anarchist Bookfair, Waterloo Park Pavilion. Lets be having you! A full day of stalls, music, food, drink and fun! More details from www.norwichanarchists.org Saturday
18 June Noon – 5.30pm Community Action gathering Saturday 2 July – Make Poverty History march, Edinburgh Wednesday 6 – Friday 8 July – G8 conference, Gleneagles, anti-G8 actions across Scotland.
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