Dr George Barnsby, Sep 14, 2008
Preparations for protest against the war in Iraq, now in its sixth
year, are being made by all organisations opposed to the war. They will continue with protests at the Labour Party Conference in Manchester on 20th September at 12-30am.
On its internal business Left Alternative reports the resignation of
John Lees and Lindsay German from their National Council. The remain, however members of Left Alternative. John has been a tireless member of the officer’s group from the inception of Respect in difficult political circumstances while Lindsey has been our inspirational mayoral candidate in the Greater London elections of both 2004 and 2008.
Another protest is being arranged by People before Profit who are
calling for lobbies of MPs in support of a windfall tax on energy firms which are making multi-millions in profit while implementing huge rises for ordinary people. Has your MP signed the call for a windfall tax? Supporters are also asked to protest at local Tesco’s when profits are announced at the end of the month.
All these are most worthy campaigns and the heat is now building up on Brown now for his opponents to either sack him or leave him be.
This emphasises once again that the only way to be rid of Brown NOW is either a Citizen’s Arrest of Brown inside Parliament or outside it to stop
the slaughter of innocent children and people in Iraq and Afghanistan and bring him to justice before the Court of Human Rights at the Hague for Crimes against Humanity. George Galloway and Ken Purchases have not replied to me asking them to do it, so we might be suggesting that other left militant MPs such as those on Labour Briefing take up the cudgels to end the war and make themselves public heroes by getting Brown and Blair locked up NOW.
Peace and Justice Post 
Dangers of Brown’s nuclear-mania
September 10, 2009Dr George Barnsby, The Barnsby Blog No. 2011, Sept 10, 2009
Brown’s suicidal efforts to blow us all up has been further exposed by
his latest proposals outlined by Professor David Elliott of the Open
University in a letter in today’s Guardian.
The Labour government has moved from a position of replacing older
nuclear plants to one of a radical expansion from the present 13% of
electricity from nuclear sources to 35-40% beyond 2030. Brown has indicated that he believes the world needs 1,000 extra nuclear power stations and has argued that Africa could build nuclear power plants to meet growing demands for energy.
In 2009 a new UK Nuclear Centre of Excellence was announced to promote, ‘wider access to civil nuclear power across the world’ with an initial budget of £20million. Professor Elliott goes on the say, ‘As a life-long Labour movement activist and long standing Labour Party member I have struggled to live with New Labour policies. But these new policies on nuclear power will, I believe lead to long term global security problems.
The policies could undermine energy security and environmental
sustainability since money, manpower and other resources will be diverted away from renewables and energy efficiency’.
The Professor ends by saying, ‘I have made these points regularly in
various forums. But the commitment to an expanded nuclear programme is deepening. I have therefore, reluctantly, decided to resign from the Labour Party’.
Good for Professor Elliott. This BLOG and COPAM entirely agree with
his actions.
For an island surrounded by water and floating on coal it is madness to think that we need nuclear power. And the present BBC programmes of Neil Oliver showing the power of water as he moves around the coast of Britain brings to mind the phrase as applied to Gordon Brown, that those the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.
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