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  • Stop the War Scotland back rail unions’ stand on Palestine

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     Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan speaking at a march for Palestine in Liverpool to coincide with the Labour Party Conference, September 21, 2024

    ANTI-WAR campaigners in Scotland have sent solidarity to railway workers “making a stand for Palestine” and refusing to drive trains built by a firm complicit in Israeli war crimes.

    Stop the War Scotland joined rail unions RMT, Aslef and TSSA today in demanding that the Scottish government remove CAF from its shortlist of contractors to build ScotRail’s new fleet of suburban trains.

    The company has been listed on the United Nations human rights database for its role in running the Jerusalem Light Railway and helping expand it to territory seized by Israel.

    Aslef made clear that its members would refuse to drive CAF trains, a position now echoed by TSSA general secretary Maryam Eslamdoust as she urged the Scottish government to “think again.”

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    UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister.
    UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham admits to blatently lying and engaging in deception to become leader of the UK Labour Party and Prime Minister.
    Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza's hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel. New Labour UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham continues Labour party policy of active support and complicity in Israel's genocide.
    Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel. New Labour UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham continues Labour party policy of active support and complicity in Israel’s genocide.

  • Police admit destroying files in Spycops inquiry

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    POLICE destroyed files relating to anti-war campaigners, unions and several individuals ahead of the undercover policing inquiry, it was heard today. 

    The Metropolitan Police Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) spied on campaigners for decades.

    A public inquiry was set up when it was revealed that the SDS spied on the family of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence.

    It has already heard testimony from victims of the SpyCops, including women activists with whom undercover police officers had relationships with and fathered children without revealing their true identity.

    The interim report found the SDS should have been wound up almost as soon as it was established in the 1970s.

    The new revelation, released by the inquiry today, shows that the Metropolitan Police deliberately destroyed secret files before they could be seen by the inquiry.

    These included reports on the Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Fire Brigades Union, the National Union of Mineworkers, the building union Ucatt, the Jean Charles de Menezes campaign, as well as former MP Dave Nellist and top KC Mike Mansfield.

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