BUDGET 2021 AND THE SPECTRE OF CORBYN

Posted on March 9, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged austerity, Broadland, budget, capitalism, corporation tax, corruption, Covid-19, featured, ge2019, general election, government, jeremy corbyn, keir starmer, Labour, mainstream media, nationalise broadband, norfolk, norwich, pandemic, politics, rishi sunak, socialism, spring budget 2021, Tories, uk politics.

By Howard Green

On March third, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced his annual budget for 2021. As you would expect from a modern Conservative government, the budget showed an unwillingness to borrow and spend more than a moderate amount, despite the continuing economic pressures posed by the pandemic, and reaffirmed the government’s commitment to benefitting their rich donors while denying the most basic of help to the victims of years of Tory austerity. Sunak is spending just enough pocket change to maintain the appearance that the government isn’t just doing the bare minimum during the pandemic, but, typically, even this amounts to high praise from the largely right-wing mainstream media.

PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT – TIME FOR THE FIGHTBACK

Posted on December 10, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged activism, activists, anti austerity, Arcadia Group, austerity, Australia, bedroom tax, benefits, Boris Johnson, campaigning, climate crisis, climate jobs, construction, corruption, Covid-19, cronyism, CWU, Debenhams, east anglia, engineering, eviction ban, featured, fossil fuels, furlough scheme, gig economy, government, green economy, green industrial revolution, Hospitality, hospitals, Jane Loftus, Jo Rust, jobs, King's Lynn, Labour, MPs, nationalisation, NHS, norwich, pandemic, People Before Profit, Philip Green, PPE, public ownership, recession, redundancies, retail, Serco, social security, tax reform, Topshop, Tories, tourism, trade unions, TUC, uk, Universal Credit, welfare state, wildfires.

By John Sillett

The recent collapse into administration of shop group Arcadia and Debenhams’ department stores was shocking, but not unexpected. Both companies have had their assets looted by their owners; Arcadia’s owner Philip Green has become widely seen as the unacceptable face of capitalism. Whilst the vultures pick over the bones of Topshop and its relations, there has been an avalanche of redundancies in many sectors, from construction to engineering. The pandemic has hastened the collapse or rationalisation of companies depending on footfall, like retail, hospitality and tourism.

FROM SCHALKE TO NEWCASTLE: ARE FOOTBALL CLUBS BECOMING COVERS FOR CORRUPTION?

Posted on July 20, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Amnesty International, Angela Merkel, Ben Mee, black lives matter, Bundesliga, commercialisation, community organising, corruption, fan activism, Fans Supporting Foodbanks, featured, football, free school meals, gazprom, Gerhard Schroeder, germany, Hatice Cengiz, human rights, international politics, Jamal Khashoggi, manchester, Manchester City, marcus rashford, Newcastle, newcastle united, Nord Stream, PIF, premier league, Ruhr Valley, Russia, Saudi Arabia, schalke 04, sheikh mansour, sponsorship, sport, U.A.E., Vladimir Putin.

By Howard Green

Professional football has been hyper-commercialised by every means available. Billion pound deals between private entities to secure TV rights, ridiculous sponsorship schemes that see clubs partner with the most strange or dangerous of companies, and ever-rising ticket prices turning the sport into an occasional daytime activity for the well-off rather than dedicated working-class fans. But there are still instances of defiance, of fans and players organising and speaking out against the commercial elements of the sport.

A KINDER KIND OF POWER: WORDS FROM THE UEA PICKET LINE

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Community, Student and tagged #UCUStrikesBack, BME pay gap, casualisation, corruption, david richardson, featured, gender pay gap, inequality, international students, Neil Ward, overworking, pensions, picket lines, power, precarity, protest, redundancy, solidarity, strike, strike action, students, UCU, UCU strike, UEA, UEA SU, UEA UCU, universities, university staff, USS, UUK, VC salaries, visas, wages, workers rights, working conditions.

By Rowan Gavin

We are the morning greeting. We are cold boots on colder ground. We are the smiles in the winter sunshine. We are the chants and the songs and the stiff-limbed dances. We are the fascinator of freedom, the little red coat of resistance and packet line soylidarity. We are the educators, learning in a new classroom. We are the outrage, and the laughter. We are here to fight the power. We are power.

THE US IMMIGRATION COURT & THE POWER OF ITS JUDGE KING, PART II

Posted on May 26, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged American justice system, corruption, court, deportation, drugs, featured, gang, government, ice, interpreting, Juan José Martínez D'Aubuisson, judge, justice, law, maras, police, prison, traffic, trafficking, translation, trial, tribunal, US, USA, violence.

by Ana M. Fores Tamayo

Continued from Part I here.

When the police in Guerrero, Mexico told this young woman to leave their station, not to report her missing brother or something worse could happen, she realized she could not count on the police’s help to go after the cartels. Luckily, her brother was returned, beaten up but alive. hen she began to get harassed later that year, because she saw a woman abducted and then murdered, when she began to get subsequent death threats, when she began to hear that they were going to take her small son unless she complied to whatever they wanted from her, when they began accosting her sexually — so that she had to leave her job — she knew she could not go to the police: she had learned her lesson that first time.

SLOWLY, SLOWLY: CORRUPTION IN US (AND UK) PRISONS

Posted on February 23, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged Bent County Correctional Facility, Chris Grayling, colorado, Core Civic, Corrections Corporation of America, corruption, crime, David Gauke, featured, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Harley Lappin, J. Michael Quinlan, justice, louisiana, ministry of justice, prison, prison reform, privatisation, United States, Winn Correctional Center.

By David Breakspear

I was recently asked to be a guest speaker on an American live radio show to talk about the collateral damage of injustice and corruption in US prisons. The show is aired from Colorado Springs, so in order to be able to talk about local issues, as I usually cover correctional facilities in Florida, I set about researching prisons in Colorado – which also led me to Louisiana – and I came across a company formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) that changed their name to Core Civic in October 2016 during ongoing scrutiny of the private prison industry in the US.Continue Reading

THE DOUBLE DECEPTION OF THE UEA EXPENSES SCANDAL

Posted on November 24, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged corruption, david richardson, expenses, expenses scandal, fair pay, featured, lecturers, norwich, pensions, strike action, students, tuition fees, UCU strike, UEA, university management, university vice chancellors, wages, Wood Hall.

By Robyn Banks

This week it was revealed that the senior management team at UEA has been claiming ludicrous expenses whilst on business trips across the world. Some of these claims have included limousine rides through Hong Kong, first class train and plane tickets, five star hotels and meals costing as much as £640. This attitude to spending university money is absurd and distasteful, but it is not surprising. It is a predictable result of the changes that UK higher education has undergone over the past eight years.

TO YOU, ITAI

Posted on May 28, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Africa, corruption, demostration, dictator, dictatorship, eulogy, featured, Itai Dzamara, media, movement, newspapers, occupy, occupy wall street, petition, protest, repression, robert mugabe, violence, Zimbabwe.

by Stu Lucy

Occupy. Regardless of what you think about the movement’s longevity, potency or efficacy, it was hailed as the start of a new wave of activism that was so desperately needed, protest that would reinvigorate the oppressed and make the elite ruling class of Western democracies pay attention and take heed. Occupy Wall Street was of course where it all began, and it soon spread to over 20 countries worldwide.

There was one country though that found itself besiege to an Occupy movement, news of which barely made it to the international media stage. Furthermore, this relatively modest movement wasn’t aimed at the 1% – the metaphoric representation of a ruling class defined by financial capital – this movement instead took aim at one of Africa’s most destructive democratically elected dictators: Mr Robert Mugabe.Continue Reading

JOURNALIST SHOT DEAD. SLOVAKIA IN TURMOIL. CAN NOTHING TOUCH THE INDESTRUCTIBLE ROBERT FICO?

Posted on March 9, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged assassination, benefit fraud, contract killing, corruption, Direction Social Democracy, election campaign, EU, european commission, featured, George Soros, government, investigative journalist, Islam, Ján Kuciak, Marina Kusnirova, moral integrity, Muslim, national loyalty, Ndrangheta Calabrian Mafia, politician, refugee, refugees, Robert Fico, Robert Kaliňák, Roma, Slovak EU Presidency, Slovakia, terrorism, theft.

by Jonathan Lee

Content warning: article mentions racism, anti-Roma sentiments, and contains offensive and discriminatory language.

It’s been almost two weeks since Slovak investigative journalist, Ján Kuciak, and his partner Marina Kusnirova were found shot dead in their Velka Maca apartment. The couple were both murdered by single gunshots, with the crime bearing the hallmarks of a contract killing according to Slovak police.

Prior to his death, Kuciak had been investigating the theft of EU funds by businessmen linked to the Ndrangheta Calabrian Mafia, and to high-up ministers in Prime Minister Robert Fico’s office. In his final unfinished article, Kuciak names the Secretary of the State Security Council, and the Chief State Advisor to Fico, as being linked to the corruption. Both of whom have taken indefinite leaves of absence while the investigation continues, in an attempt to avoid their names being used against the Prime Minister they say.

The deaths have plunged Slovakia into turmoil. Not even during the communist regime was a journalist ever murdered in the country, and it has highlighted the already considerable concerns surrounding corruption in the Slovak government.Continue Reading

CRITICISMS OF USAID’S LEGAL AID TOOLKIT IN MYANMAR

Posted on February 4, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged access, aim, Alycia Ebbinghaus, Aung San Suu Kyi, charity, corruption, discrimination, featured, foundation, international, Kachin, Karen, land dispute, language, law, lawyer, manual, marginalised community, Mon, Myanmar, target, toolkit, tools, USAID.

by Yali Banton Heath

Myanmar is a country under the spotlight at the moment. Human rights abuses, allegations of ethnic cleansing, economic development and foreign investment, and piss poor freedom of speech are among many controversial issues which cast shadows in today’s political discussions. On the ground, such issues require adequate legal aid, but Myanmar’s judicial system has been in tatters for decades.Continue Reading

corruption

BUDGET 2021 AND THE SPECTRE OF CORBYN

By Howard Green

FROM SCHALKE TO NEWCASTLE: ARE FOOTBALL CLUBS BECOMING COVERS FOR CORRUPTION?

By Howard Green

A KINDER KIND OF POWER: WORDS FROM THE UEA PICKET LINE

THE US IMMIGRATION COURT & THE POWER OF ITS JUDGE KING, PART II

SLOWLY, SLOWLY: CORRUPTION IN US (AND UK) PRISONS

THE DOUBLE DECEPTION OF THE UEA EXPENSES SCANDAL

TO YOU, ITAI

CRITICISMS OF USAID’S LEGAL AID TOOLKIT IN MYANMAR

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