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05/05: Nick Griffin in Barnsley
Category: Anti-fascism
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Nick Griffin leader of the B.N.P is to speak in Barnsley on Thursday night 7th May at 7.30pm.
There will be a protest outside the venue from 7.pm.
The venue details are THE FLEETS PUB, SMITHIES LANE, BARNSLEY, S71 1NL. Tel. 01226 243678
We're sure CW members and anti-fascists in the area will welcome Mr.Griffin with some good ol'fashioned Barnsley hospitality and give him and his supporters something to remember them by!
There will be a protest outside the venue from 7.pm.
The venue details are THE FLEETS PUB, SMITHIES LANE, BARNSLEY, S71 1NL. Tel. 01226 243678
We're sure CW members and anti-fascists in the area will welcome Mr.Griffin with some good ol'fashioned Barnsley hospitality and give him and his supporters something to remember them by!
28/04: Class War Benefit Gig
Why does Hillsborough get remembered in this way, when other disasters generally don’t? Well possibly because in those other disasters there was not a concerted and continuing attempt to smear the people who died as not only the authors of their own misfortune, but as thieving, drunken hooligans. Not the victims of King’s Cross, not the victims of Piper Alpha. Not even, as it happens, the victims of Valley Parade or other football stadium disasters (Ibrox, the recent Ivory Coast diaster, and so on). Any number of nightclub fires, where, almost inevitably, doors turn out to have been locked and chained: similarly fires in hostels. The deaths of the Chinese cockle pickers off the Lancashire coast not long ago. So many African would-be immigrants, drowned trying to reach Italy or Spain. Many dreadful incidents of many different types.
Everybody understands, however difficult it may be to accept it, that sometimes there are disasters and large numbers of people die, in anguished and anguishing circumstances. Very often the authorities are culpable to some degree or another and people’s distress at the deaths is likely to be exacerbated by the failure to prosecute those responsible and quite often to cover up for them. (This is true of nearly all the specific instances We mention above.) This happened with Hillsborough in a very big way, but as We say, in itself that’s not so unusual. But the smear campaign against the dead, the deliberate unleashing of prejudice and dissemination of lies, the mobilisation of all sorts of prejudice against the victims – We can recall nothing that’s been even close to this. Nothing. A huge mountain of lies, insinuations and sheer outright prejudiced hatred, which is still being added to.
If this weren’t the case, It’s quite likely that the grieving and the marking of anniversaries would not have quite the same prominence as it has. It would still be large and significant, because we mark in particular those tragedies which seem to touch us, and this one touched two large and particular groups: people who are from Liverpool and people who are football supporters.
But mostly, you know, it was the lies, and the acceptability of the lies, the way it’s considered all right to repeat these lies and the way it’s considered acceptable to attack people for grieving. That’s what gives this one event its particular magnitude. That’s why if you talk to many people from Liverpool, or many people who were involved in football supporters’ organisations at the time, you’ll notice how angry they still are. Because from too many people, there was no respect for them and no respect for the dead.”
20 years on from The Hillsbouge disaster, we should never forgive nor forget, and those who acted as they did are free to collect there pensions, those they killed on that are not, from Ian Tomlison to Blair Peach, this is how the working class are treated, like scum.
Victims of lessons unlearned from Burnden Park, from Ibrox, from Bradford Valley Parade. Victims of a mentality that saw normal people who love football as turnstile fodder who’d pay to watch their team in intolerably unsafe conditions. Victims of a police culture which saw football fans as a problem to be contained rather than human beings who deserved to be kept safe at the match. They just wanted to support their team with their families and their mates and trusted the host club and the authorities to know what they were doing.
The police, clubs and football authorities were warned. 25 people died at Ibrox in 1902 when terracing collapsed, 33 crushed to death at Burnden Park in 1946, 66 crushed on the stairway at Ibrox in 1971, 56 burned alive at Valley Parade in 1985. Countless other smaller incidents and near misses, including a similar incident at the same end of Hillsborough in 1981 when the only reason there weren’t fatalities was that fans could escape onto the pitch as the crush developed. Yet still football clubs opened decrepit and unsafe grounds to fans week by week, local authorities allowed safety certificates to go unrenewed (Hillsborough’s was ten years out of date in1989), the FA awarded big fixtures to places which were little more than death traps and the police treated fans like animals, part of Thatcher’s ‘enemy within’ rather than human beings to be respected.
Chief Superintendent Duckenfield retired on a full police pension, never to be called to account for his criminally negligent handling of the match. Following Duckenfield’s retirement on medical grounds, Superintendent Bernard Murray avoided charges as it was thought unfair to call him to account if Duckenfield had avoided it.The collective exercise in arse covering by the South Yorkshire Police started not long after 3:15pm, as fans were still lay dying on the pitch, when Duckenfield told the FA’s Graham Kelly that Liverpool fans had forced the gates open to enter the ground - gates he had ordered to be opened himself just half an hour earlier. The smears, which went on to include questioning grieving relatives about their dead’s drinking habits and off the record briefings to the press about the alleged behaviour of Liverpool fans before and during the tragedy - rebutted by every independent witness to the events - began even as the bodies were still piled up on the terraces. By contrast, the Major Incident Plan was never put into action and hospital staff were left to come in as they heard about what had happened on the news rather than being called in immediately.
The Taylor inquiry into the disaster named the primary cause of the tragedy as the failure of police control, yet even to this day people will still swear blind that the fans must have been responsible for their own deaths. Even in the face of practically all the available evidence of police lies, incompetence and the co-ordination of statements to tone down the chaos amongst those supposed to be keeping people safe and talk up the alleged out of control mob which seemingly only the South Yorkshire Police saw, the dead, injured and traumatised are slandered and libeled as hooligans who caused their own demise.
JUSTICE FOR THE 96 KILLED 15 4 1989
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/04/427624.html
Everybody understands, however difficult it may be to accept it, that sometimes there are disasters and large numbers of people die, in anguished and anguishing circumstances. Very often the authorities are culpable to some degree or another and people’s distress at the deaths is likely to be exacerbated by the failure to prosecute those responsible and quite often to cover up for them. (This is true of nearly all the specific instances We mention above.) This happened with Hillsborough in a very big way, but as We say, in itself that’s not so unusual. But the smear campaign against the dead, the deliberate unleashing of prejudice and dissemination of lies, the mobilisation of all sorts of prejudice against the victims – We can recall nothing that’s been even close to this. Nothing. A huge mountain of lies, insinuations and sheer outright prejudiced hatred, which is still being added to.
If this weren’t the case, It’s quite likely that the grieving and the marking of anniversaries would not have quite the same prominence as it has. It would still be large and significant, because we mark in particular those tragedies which seem to touch us, and this one touched two large and particular groups: people who are from Liverpool and people who are football supporters.
But mostly, you know, it was the lies, and the acceptability of the lies, the way it’s considered all right to repeat these lies and the way it’s considered acceptable to attack people for grieving. That’s what gives this one event its particular magnitude. That’s why if you talk to many people from Liverpool, or many people who were involved in football supporters’ organisations at the time, you’ll notice how angry they still are. Because from too many people, there was no respect for them and no respect for the dead.”
20 years on from The Hillsbouge disaster, we should never forgive nor forget, and those who acted as they did are free to collect there pensions, those they killed on that are not, from Ian Tomlison to Blair Peach, this is how the working class are treated, like scum.
Victims of lessons unlearned from Burnden Park, from Ibrox, from Bradford Valley Parade. Victims of a mentality that saw normal people who love football as turnstile fodder who’d pay to watch their team in intolerably unsafe conditions. Victims of a police culture which saw football fans as a problem to be contained rather than human beings who deserved to be kept safe at the match. They just wanted to support their team with their families and their mates and trusted the host club and the authorities to know what they were doing.
The police, clubs and football authorities were warned. 25 people died at Ibrox in 1902 when terracing collapsed, 33 crushed to death at Burnden Park in 1946, 66 crushed on the stairway at Ibrox in 1971, 56 burned alive at Valley Parade in 1985. Countless other smaller incidents and near misses, including a similar incident at the same end of Hillsborough in 1981 when the only reason there weren’t fatalities was that fans could escape onto the pitch as the crush developed. Yet still football clubs opened decrepit and unsafe grounds to fans week by week, local authorities allowed safety certificates to go unrenewed (Hillsborough’s was ten years out of date in1989), the FA awarded big fixtures to places which were little more than death traps and the police treated fans like animals, part of Thatcher’s ‘enemy within’ rather than human beings to be respected.
Chief Superintendent Duckenfield retired on a full police pension, never to be called to account for his criminally negligent handling of the match. Following Duckenfield’s retirement on medical grounds, Superintendent Bernard Murray avoided charges as it was thought unfair to call him to account if Duckenfield had avoided it.The collective exercise in arse covering by the South Yorkshire Police started not long after 3:15pm, as fans were still lay dying on the pitch, when Duckenfield told the FA’s Graham Kelly that Liverpool fans had forced the gates open to enter the ground - gates he had ordered to be opened himself just half an hour earlier. The smears, which went on to include questioning grieving relatives about their dead’s drinking habits and off the record briefings to the press about the alleged behaviour of Liverpool fans before and during the tragedy - rebutted by every independent witness to the events - began even as the bodies were still piled up on the terraces. By contrast, the Major Incident Plan was never put into action and hospital staff were left to come in as they heard about what had happened on the news rather than being called in immediately.
The Taylor inquiry into the disaster named the primary cause of the tragedy as the failure of police control, yet even to this day people will still swear blind that the fans must have been responsible for their own deaths. Even in the face of practically all the available evidence of police lies, incompetence and the co-ordination of statements to tone down the chaos amongst those supposed to be keeping people safe and talk up the alleged out of control mob which seemingly only the South Yorkshire Police saw, the dead, injured and traumatised are slandered and libeled as hooligans who caused their own demise.
JUSTICE FOR THE 96 KILLED 15 4 1989
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/04/427624.html
The TSG plod who's attack on a member of the public resulted in death, is wrongly reported to have suffered a heart attack.
Todays Sunday Mirror article reports that this nasty piece of work phoned his superiors when he realised he was the officer responsible for Ian Tomlinson's death, then promptly collapsed under the stress of it all.
Class War have it on good authority he actually suffered a panic attack on realising he was going to get shafted by his colleagues, and was released from hospital not long after.
It is not suprising the officer in question didn't realise he was responsible for the death for a whole week, after all, the amount of cracked heads and attacks on protestors that occured, it must indeed be a problem just who's cracked head was who's.
You have our sympathy officer! No doubt the Met will send you on an all expenses paid holiday somewhere hot so you can come to terms with it all.
Meanwhile the Observer are reporting that it could take up to three years for the Tomlinson family to receive any kind of justice, if indeed at all.
Todays Sunday Mirror article reports that this nasty piece of work phoned his superiors when he realised he was the officer responsible for Ian Tomlinson's death, then promptly collapsed under the stress of it all.
Class War have it on good authority he actually suffered a panic attack on realising he was going to get shafted by his colleagues, and was released from hospital not long after.
It is not suprising the officer in question didn't realise he was responsible for the death for a whole week, after all, the amount of cracked heads and attacks on protestors that occured, it must indeed be a problem just who's cracked head was who's.
You have our sympathy officer! No doubt the Met will send you on an all expenses paid holiday somewhere hot so you can come to terms with it all.
Meanwhile the Observer are reporting that it could take up to three years for the Tomlinson family to receive any kind of justice, if indeed at all.
Hands up for the Police machine! Just when the limelight shows them to be the corrupt self-serving bully boys that we so love to throw things at, they remind us how important and beneficial they are to society by resorting to high profile terror raids against alleged muslim extremists.
Certainly knocks the stories of killing members of the public off the main headlines!
Get in there, we take it all back. A box of donuts on it's way as we speak.
Police Heroes Drop Everything And Head Back To Base For A Quick Donut.....
Certainly knocks the stories of killing members of the public off the main headlines!
Get in there, we take it all back. A box of donuts on it's way as we speak.
Police Heroes Drop Everything And Head Back To Base For A Quick Donut.....
See Indymedia London for G20 reports, timelines and features.
On Wednesday during a demonstration against the G20 in London, thousands of protestors were trapped inside a police cordon (kettled) where they were baton charged and crushed by the police. Ian Tomlinson, who appears to have been a passer-by, died during this demonstration outside the Bank of England. The police started a coverup immediately, claiming police and medics had been prevented from attending to him, although eyewitnesses reported seeing Ian Tomlinson being attacked by police shortly before his death. The corporate media parroted these police lies even though eyewitness accounts contradicted this [statement | video]. Now a video has surfaced clearly showing Ian was viciously assaulted by riot police from behind and violently pushed to the ground. Riot police and members of the Forward Intelligence Team looked on as a protestor attended to him. Minutes after moving away, Mr. Tomlinson collapsed in a nearby alley and died shortly afterwards.
An assembly and a procession has been called for this Saturday 11th April assembling at Bethnal Green Police Station at 11:30 am to demand a public enquiry. A procession will move off at midday to arrive at the Bank of England around 1 pm. Another protest has also been called for Saturday 18th April at 12 noon in Redditch, the Home Secretary's constituency town.
Anyone with information they believe may help clarify the circumstances surrounding his death should, as soon as possible, write a full statement and contact the Climate Camp Legal Team: legal [at] climatecamp [dot] org [dot] uk
N.B. If you have previously left any important legal information on an answering machine or sent to a different email address and nobody got back to you, please try again using the email address above
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/04/426083.html
On Wednesday during a demonstration against the G20 in London, thousands of protestors were trapped inside a police cordon (kettled) where they were baton charged and crushed by the police. Ian Tomlinson, who appears to have been a passer-by, died during this demonstration outside the Bank of England. The police started a coverup immediately, claiming police and medics had been prevented from attending to him, although eyewitnesses reported seeing Ian Tomlinson being attacked by police shortly before his death. The corporate media parroted these police lies even though eyewitness accounts contradicted this [statement | video]. Now a video has surfaced clearly showing Ian was viciously assaulted by riot police from behind and violently pushed to the ground. Riot police and members of the Forward Intelligence Team looked on as a protestor attended to him. Minutes after moving away, Mr. Tomlinson collapsed in a nearby alley and died shortly afterwards.
An assembly and a procession has been called for this Saturday 11th April assembling at Bethnal Green Police Station at 11:30 am to demand a public enquiry. A procession will move off at midday to arrive at the Bank of England around 1 pm. Another protest has also been called for Saturday 18th April at 12 noon in Redditch, the Home Secretary's constituency town.
Anyone with information they believe may help clarify the circumstances surrounding his death should, as soon as possible, write a full statement and contact the Climate Camp Legal Team: legal [at] climatecamp [dot] org [dot] uk
N.B. If you have previously left any important legal information on an answering machine or sent to a different email address and nobody got back to you, please try again using the email address above
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/04/426083.html
The policing at the G20 protests was extremely violent and agressive. Peaceful protesters were attacked and beaten, many of them suffering injuries. We`ve all seen the videos of police laying into the climate campers who stood there with their hands in the air calmly stating "this is not a riot". And now we see film evidence that Ian Tomlinson, who was not even a protester, was brutally attacked from behind with a baton, before being shoved hard to the ground by a vicious cop. Ian Tomlinson died minutes later - I call this MURDER and it happened on Jacqui Smith`s watch!!
This is a call out for a National Demonstration in Redditch, the constituency of Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary.
Demonstrate against the increasingly violent and aggressive policing at peaceful protests. Demonstrate against the erosion of civil liberties in our so called democracy. Demand that Jacqui Smith ensures that the officers who murdered Ian Tomlinson are brought to justice.
Let`s see how Jacqui Smith likes it when 1,000`s of protesters turn up in her home town demanding JUSTICE!!!
Saturday 18th April - 12 noon outside Redditch Town Hall.
The town hall is about 10 minutes walk from the train station. http://www.multimap.com/s/QKjPxY9S
JUSTICE
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/2009/04/426961.html
Rally at Visteon plant in Enfield Saturday 4th April 11 a.m. please bring food, banners and banner making stuff and noise to support the workers and their families at the factory ..
The plant is on Morson Road which is over the road from Ponders End train station.
Press
The plant is on Morson Road which is over the road from Ponders End train station.
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