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ESF London : delegates gather to put world to rights

2004-10-14T01:28:58Z

20,000 campaigners expected to discuss challenges posed by globalisation and neo-liberalism
by Tania Branigan
Padmanabhan Krishna Murthy had only just arrived in London, but yesterday afternoon he had one matter on his mind: how to find Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery.
Its inscription - "Workers of all lands unite" - seemed an apt summary of the reason for his latest trip. The Indian trade union leader is one of hundreds of overseas delegates who have arrived in London for the third (…)

- contributions / Edito, Social Forum, Tania Branigan

Loach pitches in for low-paid cleaners

2004-10-12T00:46:08Z

Film-maker lends support to campaign for improving lot of back-up workers at Canary Wharf, but injunction scotches protest march
by Tania Branigan
He has spent his life documenting the struggles of the poor and excluded, in films ranging from Cathy Come Home to last month's Ae Fond Kiss.
Now Ken Loach is taking on the might of Canary Wharf in a row that mirrors his acclaimed 1998 film Bread and Roses, fighting for the rights of cleaners in the lucrative financial institutions on the (…)

- contributions / Edito, Cinema-Video, UK, Tania Branigan

Dome from home for 5,000 activists

2004-10-09T18:15:50Z

by Tania Branigan
It might not boast the cachet of staying at the Ritz or Savoy, but 5,000 backpackers will be bedding down at one of the most exclusive addresses in London next week, turning the Millennium Dome into the world's biggest youth hostel.
The much-mocked attraction is to be turned into a dormitory for thousands of activists and young people travelling from across the continent for the European Social Forum.
Like many of the capital's residents, the mayor appears surprised - (…)

- contributions / Social Forum, UK, Tania Branigan

Detentions 'not right' - Rimington

2004-08-19T01:12:53Z

by Tania Branigan
A former head of MI5 has condemned the detention of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, where British security service officials are said to have repeatedly interrogated suspects under harsh conditions.
Dame Stella Rimington's comments came just two weeks after Britons formerly held at the camp described how MI5 officers questioned them at length.
Their lawyers accuse the UK of "complicity" in the detention and mistreatment of prisoners by the US at its Cuban base.
"It (…)

- contributions / International, Prison, UK, Tania Branigan