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George Galloway: The Ghost of Labour past . . .

My campaign is picking up momentum, especially as Labour voters realise there's no point in giving their own party their second vote, as it will be entirely wasted.

There are virtually no forseeable circumstances in which Labour could gain an extra seat in the city from the list vote (that's the pink ballot paper).

In me, they can glimpse the ghost of Labour's past - the real Labour of solidarity, of trade unionism, of opposition to war, prejudice, bigotry and hate.

The Labour that refused to bomb Vietnam, that was always with the working people and believed public was better than privatised, that we could achieve more together than we ever could on our own.

Speaking daily on my soap box in Buchanan Street, I'm gathering big and largely appreciative crowds.

I'm competing on the south side, a champion of the east end. And in the west end, it's like I've never been away.

Are there enough people left who oppose war and imperialism, stand up for the oppressed, believe that the socialism of Keir Hardie, James Maxton and John Smith is age-old but evergreen and has never died? We'll see on May 5.

Coalition against Cuts and George in the papers

My hope for George Galloway
Mirror.co.uk - Kevin Maguire - ‎Apr 26, 2011‎
I HOPE firebrand George Galloway, pictured, wins a seat in the Scottish Parliament. Not because I agree with everything the ex-MP says, because I don't. The anti-war protester would match SNP Separatist Alex ...

George Galloway seeks a platform to speak for working people
Scotsman - Andrew Whitaker - ‎Apr 26, 2011‎
GEORGE Galloway boasts that "the sun shines on the righteous" as he takes to the streets of Glasgow on a baking hot afternoon during his daily soap box routine in the city centre. Dressed in a dark grey suit and perched on his ...

Scottish election campaign cuts through 'uninspiring' main parties
Socialistworker.co.uk - Patrick Ward - ‎Apr 26, 2011‎
Activists in Scotland continue to push for votes against the cuts ahead of next Thursday's elections for the Scottish parliament. Campaigners for George Galloway's Coalition Against Cuts in Glasgow, and for socialist movement Solidarity ...

Coalition Against Cuts - Meet your candidates

On Thursday 28th April, the Coalition Against Cuts invites Glasgow voters to meet their candidates. As well as George Galloway the colition has a full slate of candidates, a very strong team including Angela McCormick, a longstanding anti-war and anti-poverty campaigner, Brian Smith who is Branch Secretary of Glasgow Unison and leader of the Defend Glasgow Services Campaign as well as students and community activists

Meet them on Thursday 28th April from 7.15pm -8.45pm at the Pollockshields Primary School at 241 Albert Drive in Glasgow. All very welcome.

Scottish critics shouldn't write off George Galloway

Kevin McKenna writes in The Guardian

"The sun was out for George Galloway this week as he campaigned vigorously in Buchanan Street, Glasgow's main shopping thoroughfare. And so too were a few hundred of his fellow citizens. Karen Millen and Hugo Boss could wait for a while, for here they were witnessing a rare thing: a Scottish politician who could speak without notes for 15 minutes, and whom they all recognised. Galloway on a soapbox and with a megaphone in his hand can be irresistible and the handful of curious passers-by had swelled to a throng by the time he had finished a rodomontade which excoriated Labour and the Conservatives for neglecting his city. "The life expectancy of people in parts of this city is 10 years worse than in Kabul," he bellowed. "The people who purport to represent you have let you down. But if you send me to Holyrood I will make you proud of me."

Read the full article at The Guardian here

The George Galloway Trio

George Galloway foresees SNP win but vows to 'noise up' Holyrood

POVERTY in Glasgow ensured that what was once "the second city of the empire" now had worse health outcomes than overseas territories which have been ravaged by war, George Galloway declared yesterday as he launched his manifesto to become an MSP.

The former Glasgow Hillhead MP returned to his former seat to launch his manifesto with a pledge to oppose all government cuts, reintroduce student grants and retrieve £100 million of cash "stolen" by the Con-Lib Dem coalition to pay for improved services in Glasgow.

Read the full article in The Scotsman

Galloway promises to noise up the Scottish Parliament

George launches Coalition Against Cuts Manifesto in Glasgow

Watch the STV report CLICK HERE

Vote George Galloway – Coalition Against Cuts Manifesto

Visit the Bradford West by-election pages CLICK HERE 

Scottish Parliament Elections 5 May 2011 - Glasgow Region
Shaking up the Scottish parliament. – and making your voice heard

George Galloway and the Coalition Against Cuts are standing for the Scottish parliament on the Glasgow regional list on May 5.

More than ever, we need MSPs who will fight for the people of Glasgow. We are standing to offer a voice to hundreds of thousands of people in our city facing savage cuts and attacks on living standards.

We stand for public services accountable to the voters, not privateers amassing fortunes at the voters’ expense

George was a Glasgow MP for 18 years and is a fearless and outspoken opponent of war, cuts, racism and poverty. He is the lead candidate on our list.

Little Scotlanders are Maggie's pals

I watched a marvellous football match on Friday ... the English Championship clash between Norwich City and Nottingham Forest.

The clubs' Scottish managers, City's Paul Lambert (ex-Celtic) and Forest's Billy Davies (ex-Rangers), hugged each other in a warm embrace.

Ditto the other week when ex-Celt Steve Kean and Paisley-born Owen Coyle, now at Blackburn and Bolton respectively, showed why they are two of the most highly rated coaches in the game.

The road to hell without a single good intention

It took him 20 years, involved navigating between the twin dangers of Scylla and Charybdis and ended in manifold tragedy. Three weeks into this new Nato war on the southern Mediterranean and there appears little end in sight.

What has come to an end, or ought to have, is any pretence that this has anything to do with humanitarian considerations. The treatment of the African Union mission earlier this week demonstrates that.

The five AU heads of state set out to seek a ceasefire and begin the process of some negotiated settlement. If simply saving lives were the aim of the military intervention driven by David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy, then you would think that they would welcome such efforts to stop the fighting.

Scotland's chance to show bravery

It's not only over wars abroad that public feeling is not being expressed in the political process. It's true also over the economic war the Tory-led coalition is mounting at home.

I'm out every day campaigning for election to the Scottish Parliament on May 5. So far you would barely know on the streets of Glasgow that an election was taking place.

But you certainly are aware of the devastation that is being wrought as the turbo-charged Thatcherite austerity rips through the country. The response from Labour is far from adequate. It's hardly a rallying cry to say that you would have made similar cuts but slightly later.

The straw that might break the camel's back

The News of the World phone-hacking story just refuses to die - rightly so. It has now spread with a third senior journalist being arrested and further police searches of the Wapping bunker. Rebekah Brook's attempt to put it to bed has backfired.

Questions are now being raised that I am determined to pursue to the very end. What was the role of the Metropolitan Police in kicking the original inquiry into the long grass? Just how extensive is the hacking?

From personal experience I know how shallow are the Murdoch empire's protestations. I was staring at the evidence showing my phone was hacked at the very moment when News International was denying it.

George Galloway is back in Scottish politics – let battle commence

He left Glasgow in 2005, but now there's the prospect of epic Holyrood clashes between Gorgeous George and Alex Salmond, writes Marianne Taylor in The Guardian

Alongside the more familiar party names on the ballot paper for the forthcoming Holyrood elections, voters in Glasgow will have a new kid on the block vying for their support. "The Respect party – George Galloway (Respect) Coalition Against the Cuts" is clearly a bit of a mouthful, so let's just strip it down to basics: Gorgeous George is back.

Read the full article here in The Guardian

Galloway launches $1.5million legal action against Canadian government

George Galloway is suing the Canadian government for $1.5million.

The legal action alleges defamation, misfeasance of public office and claims general and exemplary damages amounting to $1.5million. The statement of claim was served today (Tuesday) on Immigration, Nationalities and Multiculturalism minister Jason Kenney and his assistant Alykhan Velshi.

The claim centres on allegations Kenney and Velshi made about Galloway, on the record and in inter-departmental communications, when he was banned from Canada in March 2009. Specifically that he was a member of a terrorist organisation and was threat to the national security of Canada. They also claimed that the security services had confirmed this. None of these allegations was true.

Scottish government must defend the disabled

While the Westminster government intends to cut incapacity benefit to half a million people. George Galloway has demanded that the new Scottish government defends the disabled rather than being complicit in slashing their living standards.

George Galloway said: ‘What could be more clearly a health issue than whether or not you are fit for work? Yet the Westminster government and Labour before them has taken that decision out of the National Health Service. Instead, people on disability benefits are being dragged before a private company, Atos, which puts them through humiliating tests and which is paid a bonus - allegedly £14,000 - for every person it declares ineligible for the benefit. ‘

Galloway demands answers from Rebekah Wade

"The statement by News International of limited liability on phone hacking appears to be a cynical attempt to protect the company’s chief executive Rebekah Wade’, George Galloway said. ‘Wade delivered the statement on Friday which sought to put an end to the controversy. However by attempting to limit the admission of liability to the two years between 2004 and 2006 - and by so doing effectively sacrificing two senior executives and former editor Andy Coulson - she appears to be trying to exculpate herself from the scandal.

"The Metropolitan police a week past Thursday showed me incontrovertible proof that my phone was hacked five times in one day in April 2003. And there were surely others, before and after.

"Wade was the editor of the News of the World until January 2003. Are we expected to believe - as Wade wants us to believe - that the illegalities began only when Andy Coulson took over from her?

"When was Glenn Mulcaire, who carried out the hackings, first employed by the News of the World? My information is that he worked for the paper prior to Coulson’s watch.

"When my case comes to court I will be citing her and my counsel will be demanding answers about her part in this. In the meantime the Metropolitan police inquiry must question her urgently."

News of the World phone-hacking victims reject apology

The Guardian reports, 'Victims of phone hacking by the News of the World have rejected an apology from News International, amid reports further arrests over the scandal are likely.

'The newspaper published a prominent public apology on page two of its print edition today, but the move – which came two days after the parent company issued a similar statement – showed no sign of calming the fury of those affected.

'Lawyers for Sienna Miller, one of the most prominent admitted victims – said she had not accepted any offer of a settlement over the "outrageous violation of her privacy".

'Former MP George Galloway, who says he has seen proof that his phone was hacked, dismissed the apology as "a cynical attempt to protect the company's chief executive", Rebekah Brooks.'

READ the full story at The Guardian

Galloway for Glasgow

March for the Alternative Big Night Out

Video funded by Philosophy Football, shot by Consequential Films on the evening of 26 March at the Big Night Out Philosophy Football organised for the TUC. Spoken word electronica pioneers Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, comic Josie Long, Unison's Heather Wakefield, TUC Deputy General-Secretary Frances O'Grady and others contribute their views of the protest and what it means for the anti-cuts movement.

Coalition Against Cuts election campaign launch

Visit the Bradford West by-election pages CLICK HERE

Wednesday 6th April, 7.15pm
The Winter Gardens, People’s Palace, Glasgow Green

Marching for the Alternative

Philosophy Football follow a group of campaigners as they travel from Northampton to London to join the March for the Alternative on March 26th.