From The Liberty Wall – Free Speech: How Do We Protect It? – Words Of Wisdom – George Orwell
Date: March 21, 2018
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From The Liberty Wall – National Liberal Trade Unionists – Words Of Wisdom – Palmiro Togliatti
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From The Liberty Wall – National Liberal Trade Unionists – Words Of Wisdom – Eleanor Roosevelt http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%E2%80%93-national-liberal-trade-unionists-%E2%80%93-words-of-wisdom-%E2%80%93-eleanor-roosevelt-1884-%E2%80%93-1962
From The Liberty Wall – National Liberal Trade Unionists – Words Of Wisdom – Hilaire Belloc http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%E2%80%93-national-liberal-trade-unionists-%E2%80%93-words-of-wisdom-%E2%80%93-hilaire-belloc
Date: March 4, 2018
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From The Liberty Wall – Nations without States – What Must Be Done (13)
Check out our revamped Twitter feed: Twitter/Nations without States
WELCOME to issue 13 of What Must Be Done, the publically-available organising bulletin of Nations without States. NwS supporters are asked to read – and more importantly – act upon the instructions detailed below:
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• TWITTER. Nations without States wishes to step up another gear in 2018. We hope to stage – and support – more demonstrations and produce more publications than ever before. As a starter, however, we’ve revamped our Twitter feed. Our Twitter display name is now Nations without States and our Twitter username (or Twitter handle) is @nationswostates. We’ve also started to use the hashtag #SelfDetermination4All much more frequently. This illustrates our belief that, when it comes to true self-determination, ‘none of us are free until all of us are free’.
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With the above in mind, we feel that these changes better reflect the raisin d’etra of Nations without States. We’d encourage anyone with a Twitter account to follow our Twitter feed – and don’t forget to spread the word about both self-determination in general and Nations without States in particular!
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• ZULUS. Nations without States would like to both publicise and promote more national striuglles. In particular, we’d like to find out more about the Zulu people and their desire for a more secure homeland in an increasingly volatile and corrupt South Africa. Therefore if anyone has contacts with Zulu people (and for practical reasons, someone preferably currently living in the British Isles) could they contact NwS via Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/groups/184919468292372/
– Twitter – @nationswostates – or e-mail – nationswstates@aol.com Do it today!
– Twitter – @nationswostates – or e-mail – nationswstates@aol.com Do it today!
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• The above article should be read in conjunction with the following:
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What Must Be Done – Issue 1: http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-nations-without-states-3
What Must Be Done – Issue 2: http://nationalliberal.org/national-liberal-party-%e2%80%93-from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-nations-without-states
What Must Be Done – Issue 3: http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-nations-without-states-4
What Must Be Done – Issue 4: http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-nations-without-states-%e2%80%93-what-must-be-done-4
What Must Be Done – Issue 5: http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-nations-without-states-%e2%80%93-what-must-be-done-5
What Must Be Done – Issue 6: http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-nations-without-states-%e2%80%93-what-must-be-done-6
What Must Be Done – Issue 7: http://nationalliberal.org/national-liberal-party-%E2%80%93-from-the-liberty-wall-nations-without-states-%E2%80%93-what-must-be-done-7
What Must Be Done – Issue 8: http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-nations-without-states-%e2%80%93-what-must-be-done-8
What Must Be Done – Issue 9: http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-nations-without-states-%e2%80%93-what-must-be-done-9
What Must Be Done – Issue 10: http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-nations-without-states-what-must-be-done-10
What Must Be Done – Issue 11: http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-nations-without-states-%e2%80%93-what-must-be-done-11
What Must Be Done – Issue 12: https://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-nations-without-states-%e2%80%93-what-must-be-done-12
Date: February 26, 2018
Categories: Liberty Wall
From The Liberty Wall – National Liberal Trade Unionists – Government Action Required To Save Carillion Jobs
The collapse of Carillion could see 43,000 out of work.
THE NLTU – National Liberal Trade Unionists – believes that the government must act immediately to stop thousands of workers being thrown onto the scrapheap in the wake of the collapse of Carillion.
Carillion, the construction and outsourcing firm, is based in Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands. It employs 43,000 staff and is responsible for crucial services in schools, hospitals and prisons. It collapsed under a debt of £900m and a £580m pensions deficit.
According to the Guardian ‘The company derives £1.7bn – about a third of its revenue – from public sector contracts and public private partnerships – https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/13/private-public-sector-history-tangled-relationship These include providing school dinners, cleaning and catering at NHS hospitals, construction work on rail projects such as HS2 and maintaining 50,000 army base homes for the Ministry of Defence.’
Along with many trade unionists, the NLTU, believes that both Carillion and the government are to blame for the current situation – with the latter appearing to ignore three profit warnings and awarding contract after contract to the former. We also join others in their call for a public investigation into the actions of Carillion – which is already being dubbed ‘reckless corporate irresponsibility’ – and the government alike. A further public investigation into the whole issue of private finance contracts should also be held.
However, the NLTU believes that the most important thing that needs to happen (in the short-term) is for the government to immediately step in to stabilise the situation.
Carillion should be nationalised. This would protect thousands of jobs and keep badly needed infracture projects going. We cannot see the point in throwing some highly skilled workers onto the scrap heap. Indeed, the NLTU feels that this policy is absolutely criminal.
Once jobs have been secured we can look at the various options available. As Distributists, the NLTUs preference would be to create a series of workers co-operatives – where owners work and workers own. This would literally put the workforce in charge of their own destiny.
As we mentioned earlier, we can then look into who awarded contracts to Carillion – and why. We must also question the whole role of PFI as we feel that a national bank should simply create the money required for infrastructure projects, such as building new health centres, hospitals and schools. But before all that, immediate government action is required to save all 43,000 Carillion jobs.
• CHECK out the National Liberal Trade Unionists – NLTU – here: http://nationalliberal.org/liberty-wall-3/national-liberal-trade-unionist
Date: February 15, 2018
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From The Liberty Wall – National Liberal Trade Unionists – Put NHS Bosses’ Pay On The Line
FELLOW TRADE UNIONISTS who read our articles will know that the NLTU – National Liberal Trade Unionists – regularly reproduce and echo the views of Dr Max Pemberton. Dr Pemberton is a London-based NHS psychiatrist, journalist and writer.
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Like Dr Pemberton, the NLTU is totally opposed to the NHS being run as a business. Nor should it be seen as a cash cow for Big Pharma or various trans-national corporations. We believe that the NHS should remain a public service – and not run for private profit. Indeed, we wonder what sort of society could think about (yet alone tolerate) making money out of the illness and misery of other people.
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With this in mind we reprint an another article by Dr Pemberton – which appeared in a copy of the Daily Mail in late August of last year. Once again, we’d like to stress that our sole intention is to stimulate mature debate and it goes without saying that there are no official links between the NLTU, Dr Pemberton or the Daily Mail.
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Put NHS Bosses’ Pay On The Line
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I DON’T believe I am alone in being outraged at news that health trusts are still paying eye-watering amounts of money to senior managers.
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Latest figures show that some temporary managers brought in to try to save failing clinical commissioning groups are on rates equal to £200,000 a year – and some are on more than £300,000. What on earth is gong on?
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Despite government ministers saying they will clamp down on this kind of largess, the NHS claims it needs to pay these kinds of wages to be competitive and attract the best candidates.
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Rubbish. Most of these managers that I have encountered are mediocre at best.
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And the fact that out of 32 failing clinical commissioning groups that hired them, just three are deemed to be no longer failing, suggests they aren’t worth the money.
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I don’t agree with the NHS being run like a business, but this is the way it seems to be going. It therefore seems to make sense to me that – just as happens in the corporate sector – the pay for these managers should be linked to performance.
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I guarantee that as soon as managers’ salaries are dependent on the care that’s being delivered, we’ll suddenly start to see a lot more of them at the coalface and things will suddenly start to improve.
Date: January 5, 2018
Categories: Liberty Wall
From The Liberty Wall – Free Speech: How Do We Protect It? – March Of The Thought Police (Part 3
FREE SPEECH isn’t into conspiracy theories. We tend to feel that it’s possible for wildly opposing groups to have a convergence of interests. And if their convergence of interests is against your interests then you’ve got a fight on your hands.
However, we can understand where conspiracy theorists – especially in respect of free speech – are coming from. We understand their train of thought. For instance, what are we to make of the events listed below? Are they random events or, as conspiracy theorists would claim, is there some hidden hand manipulating events via different ‘patsies’?
Some attacks on free speech seem to be ridiculous. For instance, US News reports (1) that ‘A parent in Florida is citing profanity and violence in trying to get the local school to ban Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 — itself a cautionary tale on the banning of books.’
Other attacks are more serious. A recent RT report (2) noted that ‘A press freedom watchdog, Reporters Without Borders, has asked the Swiss Press Club to cancel a panel discussion on the “true agenda” of the controversial White Helmets group.’ This disturbs us as it sounds like some reporters are trying to stop other reporters reporting on something they disagree with! What happened to press freedom?!!
With all this in mind, Free Speech brings you part three of March Of The Thought Police, written by Dominic Sandbrook for the Daily Mail. This article follows directly on from part one http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-free-speech-how-do-we-protect-it-march-of-the-thought-police-part-1 and part two http://nationalliberal.org/from-the-liberty-wall-%e2%80%93-free-speech-how-do-we-protect-it-march-of-the-thought-police-part-2
As usual, our sole intention is to stimulate mature debate on issues relating to free speech. It goes without saying that there are no official links between Free Speech, Dominic Sandbrook, the Daily Mail or any other news outlets referenced here.
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March Of The Thought Police (Part 3)
In fact, destroying newspapers has become something of a habit for the modern liberal Left. During the election campaign, Left-wing activists eagerly tweeted pictures of themselves burning front pages of newspapers that criticised their hero, Jeremy Corbyn.Yes, burning newspapers: a Fascist trademark of the Thirties, when the Nazis held huge bonfires of books they disagreed with.
Incidentally, the Nazis were also great ones for demolishing statues of historical figures they disliked — rather like the student activists in the Rhodes Must Fall campaign, who wanted to tear down Oxford University’s statue of the empire-builder Cecil Rhodes.
The Nazis were also keen on rewriting history — as are student activists who want to ‘decolonise the curriculum’ by forcing lecturers to put more black and female writers on syllabuses instead of boring white men such as Shakespeare and Dickens.
The extraordinary thing, though, is that these modern-day book-burners reserve most of their intolerance not for their adversaries on the Right, but for heretics and apostates on the Left, such as the feminist writers Germaine Greer and Julie Bindel, or the columnist Nick Cohen.
And of course poor old Tim Farron, forced out for daring to hold views about gay marriage which held sway for millennia in this country. A favourite trick is ‘no-platforming’, when visiting speakers are denied the right to air their views in case they offend anyone’s sensibilities.
At Canterbury Christ Church University, the student union’s ‘lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender officer’ refused to share a platform with veteran gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell.
What was Mr Tatchell’s crime? He had signed an open letter deploring the rise of . . . no-platforming. By doing so, apparently, he was guilty of ‘incitement of violence against transgender people’.
If Mr Tatchell, probably the best-known gay rights campaigner in the country, a man who was badly beaten by Robert Mugabe’s bodyguards when he attempted a citizen’s arrest on the despot, is really guilty of thought crime, then none of us is safe. Indeed, merely by writing these words, I am doubtless identifying myself as a dangerous racist and sexist homophobe who deserves a long stretch in a re-education camp.
Still, if the revolution does come, I will be in good company. My fellow inmates will include not just Mr Tatchell but Colin Firth’s wife Livia (guilty of ‘cultural appropriation’ last week for wearing an American Indian headdress), the Star Trek actress Alice Eve (guilty of wearing ‘cornrows’, regarded as an Afro-Caribbean hairstyle), the novelist Lionel Shriver (guilty of writing about black characters in a novel) and the feminist writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (guilty of suggesting transgender women might be different from other women).
That all these people, many of them achingly right-on, have fallen foul of the new censors tells you all you need to know. For we live in an age of witch-hunts and purges, when the slightest deviation from the ultra-earnest, ultra-liberal orthodoxy invites charges of racism, sexism and worse.
(2) https://www.rt.com/document/5a1c6f6afc7e931c568b4567/amp/411116-reporters-white-helmets-censorship
Date: December 4, 2017
Categories: Liberty Wall