Public Meetings: Oppose Britain’s surveillance state!
Cambridge Bradford Liverpool London
Edward Snowden has exposed mass illegal surveillance programmes run by American, British and European governments—the machinery of a police state.
The former security contractor has confirmed that every email, phone call, Skype conversation and credit card purchase is accessible to America’s National Security Agency (NSA) and Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ,). Snowden is a heroic figure, driven by his revulsion at the scale of criminality within the state apparatus. For this he has been treated as a criminal, forced into exile in Moscow. Others suffer the same fate and worse. The Obama administration has secured a 35‐year jail sentence for Chelsea (Bradley) Manning, who leaked classified documents to WikiLeaks exposing warcrimes. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains confined to London’s Ecuadorian embassy.
The British government has launched an unprecedented attack on the Guardian newspaper, accusing journalists of “treason” after raiding its offices. David Miranda, the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, was detained on trumpedup terrorism charges at Heathrow airport without a shred of evidence.
The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) are seeking to mobilise a mass movement in opposition to these attacks and in defence of fundamental democratic rights on the basis of a socialist struggle against the ruling class and its political defenders. Attend the public meeting in your area.
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UK news
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Labour made immediate moves to go further than the Tories in pledging its commitment to austerity measures. - Britain’s Co-op Bank teeters on the brink December 5, 2013
The Conservative-led UK government has sought to extract every ounce of political capital out of the Co-op Bank affair at Labour’s expense.
Europe news
- Renewed strikes at Amazon sites in Germany December 7, 2013
The miserable working conditions at Amazon have been ignored by German trade unions for years. Now, the Verdi union is utilising the conflicts at the online retailer to further its own interests. - German IG Metall union supports grand coalition government December 5, 2013
The IG Metall union has given its clear support to the formation of a grand coalition between the Social Democrats and the conservative parties. - Scotland: Unions call off strike at Stirling City Council December 5, 2013
After months of negotiations, the unions have conceded to all of the councils’ demands and are advising workers to accept the deal in separate ballots. - German universities threatened with spending cuts December 5, 2013
Millions of euros are to be cut at several universities, mainly in the states of the former East Germany. - Berlin rally commemorates 75th anniversary of the Fourth International December 5, 2013
Leading representatives of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit of Germany and the Socialist Equality Party of Britain spoke at a November 30 meeting to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the F …
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