Solidarity 078, 11 August 2005

Read on for details of London and South West London meetings, and No Sweat national conference London No Sweat meets on Monday 12 September, 7.30 at the Old Crown, New Oxford Street Discussion on the practices of the Tescos supermarket chain More info: Karen 07906 384 592 South West London No Sweat Discusses Bolivia at 7.30 on Tuesday 30 August. Including a 30 minute video dealing with the “Gas War” and a speaker from the Bolivia Solidarity Campaign Battersea TU Resource Centre, 898 Garrett Lane, Tooting No Sweat national conference Will be held on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 November in London...

Stone the gays, says Ken’s friend According to al-Jazeera, the Islamist cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi has called for Crown Prince Tameem of Qatar, who lives in Britain, to be stoned to death for being gay. [According to a statement from Ken Livingstone's office - see below - the report is untrue, and the call to kill Tameem came from another cleric]. Al-Jazeera quotes Dr Qaradawi as saying: “The scholars of Islam, such as Malik, Ash-Shafi`i, Ahmad and Ishaaq said that (the person guilty of this crime) should be stoned, whether he is married or unmarried.” But Qaradawi’s comment only reiterates his...

February Afternoon Men heard this roar of parleying starlings, saw, A thousand years ago even as now, Black rooks with white gulls following the plough So that the first are last until a caw Commands that last are first again, – a law Which was of old when one, like me, dreamed how A thousand years might dust lie on his brow Yet thus would birds do between hedge and shaw. Time swims before me, making as a day A thousand years, while the broad ploughland oak Roars mill-like and men strike and bear the stroke Of war as ever, audacious or resigned, And God still sits aloft in the array That we...