Saturday 5 June • Gaza Flotilla March • End the Siege of Gaza: Freedom for Palestine
Assemble Downing Street • London • 1.30pm • March to the Israeli Embassy
Called by Stop the War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Flotilla attack -Sarah Colbourne eyewitness report in London
The Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPN-M) boycotted the House session on Thursday
The main opposition Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPN-M) boycotted the House session on Thursday, saying that there has been a breach in May 28 three-point agreement.
Following the UCPN-M' boycott, the winter session of the Legislature-Parliament has been put off.
As per the House tradition, all the decisions regarding House procedures are taken with the consent of the main opposition party as well. House Speaker Subash Chandra Nemwang announced the postponement immediately after the UCPN-M boycotted the session.
The ruling allies and UCPN-M are still at odds over the prime minister's resignation as both the sides are sticking to their former stances.
While the UCPN-Ms have been demanding Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal's resignation before entering into any discussions, the Nepali Congress (NC) and the Communist Party Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) have been stressing on implementation of past pacts of fixing the number of UCPN-M combatants to be integrated, return of seized properties and disbandment of UCPN-M' s Young Communist League.
On May 28, the UCPN-M had struck three-point deal with NC and CPN-UML before lending their support, crucial for amendment bill, for the Constituent Assembly's term extension.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Nepal is bracing for renewed political confrontation after a Maoist deadline for the resignation of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal expired
Nepal is bracing for renewed political confrontation after a Maoist deadline for the resignation of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal expired Wednesday.
The leading parties in the ruling coalition -- Nepali Congress and Communist Party of Nepal United Marxist-Leninist (UML) -- struck a deal with the main opposition Unified Communist Party of Nepal Maoist (UCPN-M) in the dying hours of May 28 to extend the term of the interim parliament by a year.
Under the terms of the 3-point deal the tenure of the Constituent Assembly (CA) would be extended and the parties would take decisive steps in the peace process while the prime minister would make way for a government of national consensus.
However, the agreement unravelled quickly with the Maoists giving Madhav Kumar “five days to resign”.
“They gave us a cheque,” Maoist Vice Chairman Baburam Bhattarai told the media. “We will soon go to the bank with that cheque. If it bounces, we know what to do
The leading parties in the ruling coalition -- Nepali Congress and Communist Party of Nepal United Marxist-Leninist (UML) -- struck a deal with the main opposition Unified Communist Party of Nepal Maoist (UCPN-M) in the dying hours of May 28 to extend the term of the interim parliament by a year.
Under the terms of the 3-point deal the tenure of the Constituent Assembly (CA) would be extended and the parties would take decisive steps in the peace process while the prime minister would make way for a government of national consensus.
However, the agreement unravelled quickly with the Maoists giving Madhav Kumar “five days to resign”.
“They gave us a cheque,” Maoist Vice Chairman Baburam Bhattarai told the media. “We will soon go to the bank with that cheque. If it bounces, we know what to do
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Robert R. Bryan Mumia's Lead Counsel in Brixton London 10th June 2010
Save Life of Mumia Abu-Jamal and and support Global Abolition of the Death Penalty
"Mumia's very life hangs in the balance. So we badly need international activism & pressure" - says Robert R.Bryan - Lead Counsel to Mumia Abu-Jamal
The Free Mumia Abu Jamal Defence Campaign in the UK invites you to meet :
ROBERT R.BRYAN - LEAD COUNSEL FOR MUMIA ABU-JAMAL IN BRIXTON TO UPDATE YOU ABOUT THE CASE OF MUMIA ABU JAMAL ON 10TH JUNE 2010.
ABOLISH THE RACIST DEATH PENALTY – FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS NOW
Date & Time: 7 PM –10 pm Thursday 10th June 2010
Venue: KARIBU EDUCATION CENTRE, 7 GRESHAM ROAD, BRIXTON, LONDON SW9 7PH
(Third Right Street From Brixton Tube Station)
Organised by
George Jackson Socialist League
Democracy and Class Struggle
Supported by
Global Afrikan Congress
Fight Racism Fight Imperialism
World Peoples Resistance Movement (Britain)
Pan Afrikan Society Community Forum
Afrikan Socialist International
Partisan Defence Committee
Co-ordination Committee of the Revolutionary Communists of Britain
Keynote speaker
Robert R. Bryan - Lead Counsel to Mumia Abu-Jamal
Other Invited Speakers:
Steve Headley of RMT (National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Worker)
Selma James of Global Women’s Strike
Glenn Watson of Global Afrikan Congress
Luwezi Kinshasa of Afrikan Socialist International
Also speakers from Fight Racism Fight Imperialism and Partisan Defence Committee
Mumia Abu-Jamal and The Global Abolition of the Death Penalty
The death penalty has the ultimate form of punishment is unacceptable in a civilized society and undermines human dignity. (U.N. General Assembly, Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty, Resolution 62/149, Dec. 18, 2007; reaffirmed, Resolution 63/168, Dec. 18, 2008.)
Mr. Abu-Jamal, a renowned black journalist and author, has been on Pennsylvania’s death row for nearly three decades.Mr Abu-Jamal has become a global symbol, the "Voice of the Voiceless", in the struggle against capital punishment and human-rights abuses. There are over 20,000 awaiting execution around the globe, with over 3,000 on death rows in the United States.
The 1982 trial of Mr. Abu-Jamal was tainted by racism, and occurred in Philadelphia which has a history of police corruption and discrimination. Amnesty International, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, "determined that numerous aspects of this case clearly failed to meet international standards safeguarding the fairness of legal proceedings. [T]he interests of justice would best be served by the granting of a new trial to Mumia Abu-Jamal. The trial should fully comply with international standards of justice and should not allow for the re-imposition of the death penalty." (A Life In the Balance - The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, at 34, Amnesty Int’l, 2000; www. Amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/001/2000.)
See you in Brixton on 10th June - Save the Life of Mumia Abu-Jamal - sign petition Now
http://mumialegal.org/node/72
Demonstrate against Israel's atrocities and for end to Gaza siege on Saturday 5th June
Saturday 5 June • Gaza Flotilla March • End the Siege of Gaza: Freedom for Palestine
Assemble Downing Street • London • 1.30pm • March to the Israeli Embassy
Assemble Downing Street • London • 1.30pm • March to the Israeli Embassy
Called by Stop the War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, British Muslim Initiative, CND & Viva Palestina
Monday, May 31, 2010
Mohan Baidya Kiran of UCPN Maoist warns of dire crisis if Madhav Kumar Nepal does not go within 72 hours
Kathmandu (AsiaNews) – Relations between the government and Maoists are tense again. Last Friday, the two sides had reached an historic agreement on extending the current provisional constitution.
Today, the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) gave Prime Minister Yadav Kumar Nepal an ultimatum, saying that if he did not resign within 72 hours, the party would destabilise the country.
Maoist reaction was caused by the prime minister, who said earlier that he would resign only if the former rebel fighters gave up their weapons and returned the land they had seized.
Senior Maoist leader Mohan Baidya Kiran said that his party agreed to vote for the government decision to extend the term of parliament by one year on Friday night only after the Prime Minister agreed to hand over the power in five days.
“There will be a dire crisis if the prime minister doesn't implement the verbal agreement to resign" within three days, Kiran warned.
Senior Maoist leader Mohan Baidya Kiran said that his party agreed to vote for the government decision to extend the term of parliament by one year on Friday night only after the Prime Minister agreed to hand over the power in five days.
“There will be a dire crisis if the prime minister doesn't implement the verbal agreement to resign" within three days, Kiran warned.
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