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Saturday, 11 May 2013
Galloway calls for the peaceful overthrow of Bangladesh's 'gangster government'
George Galloway last night called for the peaceful overthrow of the Sheikh Hasina/Awami League government in Bangladesh. Speaking at a huge protest rally in East London, Galloway denounced the massacre of Islamic scholars earlier in the week.
“Even on the most conservative estimates of the number of people murdered, it exceeds the loss of life in 9/11,” said Galloway.
“This is a game changer as the Americans would say. Bangladesh will never be the same again. This is the beginning of the end of this corrupt, murderous government.” He went on to deny there was now any possibility of free and fair elections in Bangladesh.
“Either they will be fixed by the government or they will be cancelled. That is why the only way we will get the change Bangladesh needs is through people power, a peaceful revolution that will remove this gangster government. The media is now under the almost total control of the Hasina government and in the West there has been an almost total media blackout about the massacre.”
Galloway added that the British-based Bangladesh TV had boycotted the rally and called on them to do their duty and tell the truth. “I’m against hanging anyone but it’s a fundamental truth in politics that those who live by the sword will die by the sword. There has to be an end of the politics of revenge.”
George also denounced the factory tragedy which has now taken the lives of over a thousand people and urged support for the campaign he launched a week ago to make Western multinationals fully accountable for the working conditions of those in their supply chain.o
Galloway commemorates Bradford City disaster victims
George Galloway will join hundreds of mourners today to commemorate those who lost their lives in the Bradford City fire 27 years ago.
Fifty-six people died and at least 265 people were injured. The memorial will take place at Centenary Square at 11am.
The old Valley Parade stadium, the long-established home of Bradford City Football Club, had been noted for its antiquated design and facilities, including the wooden roof of the main stand. Warnings had also been given about a major build-up of litter just below the seats. Following the fire the stadium was totally rebuilt.
Fifty-six people died and at least 265 people were injured. The memorial will take place at Centenary Square at 11am.
The old Valley Parade stadium, the long-established home of Bradford City Football Club, had been noted for its antiquated design and facilities, including the wooden roof of the main stand. Warnings had also been given about a major build-up of litter just below the seats. Following the fire the stadium was totally rebuilt.
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
George Galloway launches campaign on factory conditions in Bangladesh
George Galloway will launch on Saturday a campaign for western governments to hold accountable multinational companies for the working conditions of their suppliers. The campaign will be launched with Bradford's Bangladeshi community at 1.45 this Saturday at the Shapla Community Centre, Cornwall Street, Bradford.
George wants western multinationals, which produce directly or buy from companies in developing countries, to be penalised severely if they don’t take due precautions to ensure workers are producing in safe conditions. This follows the disaster in Bangladesh where around 400 workers are now known to have died and hundreds more are missing or injured after a nine storey garment factory supplying western multinationals collapsed just outside the capital Dhaka.
George wants western multinationals, which produce directly or buy from companies in developing countries, to be penalised severely if they don’t take due precautions to ensure workers are producing in safe conditions. This follows the disaster in Bangladesh where around 400 workers are now known to have died and hundreds more are missing or injured after a nine storey garment factory supplying western multinationals collapsed just outside the capital Dhaka.
Monday, 29 April 2013
Ed Miliband and Me
Secrets are sometimes necessary in politics. So is telling the truth but not the whole truth. What is never acceptable are lies. Especially from the leader of a party still in recovery from a predecessor who may have fatally wounded it by the tower of lies he built along the path which led to a million dead Iraqis and cascading extremism around the world.Earlier this year the Leader of the Opposition Ed Miliband asked me to come and see him in his suite of offices overlooking the River Thames in the Norman Shaw Building in parliament. In fact he asked me again and again. When my diary proved uncomfortably crowded his office tried even harder to make it happen. “Ed is very keen to meet George” says one e-mail.
It’s not that I was avoiding him, in fact I was intrigued as to what this meeting – with no specified agenda – might be about.
In any case I would never refuse to meet any parliamentary colleague, still less the leader of the opposition. Such meetings, often private, are the stuff of politics at Westminster.
Galloway launches campaign on factory conditions in Bangladesh
“This a terrible disaster,” said George Galloway this morning. “It has been caused by political corruption and negligence in Bangladesh and by the relentless drive by western multinationals for cheap sources of clothing. The western multinationals that bought their clothes from this factory owe compensation to the bereaved families and to the injured.
Galloway in bitter spat with Miliband
George Galloway has launched a furious attack on Ed Miliband, describing the Labour leader as "an unprincipled coward with the backbone of an amoeba", after the Respect MP was criticised by him. Galloway, a former Labour MP, spoke out on Friday after Miliband gave his account of a meeting several months ago between the pair.Reports of the meeting emerged only last week and led to rumours that Galloway could rejoin the party.
But the Labour leader said the encounter was part of a bid to garner minority party votes over boundary changes. He described Galloway's views as "awful" and said Labour would be fighting to get him ousted in 2015 from the Bradford West seat he spectacularly snatched from his former party in a byelection last year.
Ding dong due at the House of Commons
By George calling object it will prevent the 'Sittings of the House Motion' by the Leader of the House being put to MPs. The government will then either have to withdraw the motion, which would mean a full session on Wednesday, the date of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's funeral, or it will have to set aside parliamentary time for the motion to be fully debated on Tuesday.
Galloway said: "It really is imperative that the prime minister is questioned, among other things, about his decision to impose a quite unnecessary and expensive early return of parliament which was simply a hideous outpouring of right-wing eulogies and rants doused in crocodile tears. I'm glad to see, that like me, more than a hundred Labour MPs stayed away from the circus."
Thursday, 11 April 2013
CURTAINS UP FOR THE BRADFORD ODEON
Bradford West MP George Galloway welcomed the news that the Homes and Communities Agency, which owns the Bradford Odeon and the old police station, has announced that it is willing to sell both properties to the council for a pound each and also provide £3.5 million to the council for their preservation and restoration.
Galloway said: "A year ago I made the saving of the Odeon a central plank of my by-election campaign, which saw me win by a landslide. The people of Bradford West expressed at the ballot box the overwhelming feeling of the city as a whole – that the Odeon needed to be saved from demolition and restored to productive use as an icon of Bradford’s past and future."
At the time the building was shrouded in plastic and its future looked hopeless. "The curtains had come down on the Odeon as far as the authorities were concerned. But they've been sent back to think again, not just once but twice.
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Stop the bedroom tax
We are being sold a whopper of a lie. The ConDems claim that the current wave of welfare and public service cuts are designed to get the country out of debt and the medicine, while it tastes bad, will work. So why is the public debt getting worse as a result of these cutbacks? Because reducing incomes for the poor by an enormous 38% since taking office in 2010 was always going to stop people being able to spend so create jobs in the economy. Why are there no jobs? The banks are taking money from the government and using it to speculate in international markets rather than offering it as loans for investment. The result is that the banks get to plug the gaps in their balance sheets and reward each other with huge bonuses while the rest of us find it impossible to find sustained employment. This is particularly true of the young who are finding that the abolition of Education Maintenance Allowance and hiked tuition fees destroy their route into education but there are no jobs either.
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