 | Bob Crow Speech at opening rally of RATB Speaking tour! The Cubans were HERE! watch the opening speech by RMT General Secretary, Bob Crow. |
 | Snowdrift at Bleath Gill - National Transport films An lovely old film of the days of steam from 1955. It tells the story of a freight train travelling between Kirkby Stephen and Barnard Castle which becomes snowbound in the Westmorland hills in the north of England during a really cold winter in 1955. The film was made by the British Transport Films (BTF) unit which was a Government organisation which dealt with film publicity for the various then Nationalised transport industries. |
 | 1.18 - Privatization in Britain Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy Targeting state-owned industries The economics of coal Breaking the miners' strike Socialism turned back Watch all of Commanding Heights at PBS.org http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/hi/story/index.html |
 | RMT message to Network Rail infrastructure workers: 6.6.08 RMT general secretary Bob Crow announces strike dates for the weekend of June 14/15, 2008 affecting 12,000 Network Rail infrastructure workers. |
 | Council Boss spends £5000 of Tax-Payers money on Scientology A Town Hall Chief is spending £5,000 of TAX-PAYERS money to attend a Scientology self-awareness course in Florida so that people will like her more and she will learn to "like herself". What a perfect waste of money. Dr Allison Fraser, who has been in charge of Sandwell Council in the West Midlands for the last two years, will attend courses to learn how to become "more likeable". Chief Executive, Dr Fraser, who has an annual salary of £140,000, has already spent a week in Willingen, Germany, earlier this month, to take part in the first section of her course and will resume it in Orlando, Florida in October. In Florida, she will discover if she can truly "be liked and like herself". Dr Francis, who will stay at the Rosen Plaza Hotel, will be able to "experience a recovery of enthusiasm and inspiration for her personal vision and for her experience of the World'. Yesterday, critics of the council leader, claimed that she had "lost touch with reality" by attending the controversial Church of Scientology course. The Scientology Avatar website claims their course teaches people how to become "more real and authentic" and will "protect them against the abrasions of the world" and "gain a connection with the undefined self". The course also claims to teach students how to "obtain the keys to successfully operate in the world". If this terminology makes sense to anybody watching this video, I'd love them to explain it to me in the Queen's English. The course Dr Francis is taking was established by Harry Palmer, a former missionary in the Church of Scientology, and it is further claimed he devised the theory during a prolonged session in a flotation tank. Does having a bath make you smarter then? The Scientology website yesterday contained some of Mr Palmer's words of wisdom including the statement, "There seems to be some kind of evolution going on in consciousness; some sort of collective adaptation that we're developing or awakening to wisdom." Yesterday Dr Fraser was unavailable for comment on the course as she looked forward to gaining further "wisdom" by travelling to Orlando (and was packing her suitcase). However, Tony Mallam, a chairman at Sandwell's council's social club, which faces closure through budget cuts, stormed: 'It beggars belief. I think she has lost touch with reality. She should be concentrating on Sandwell, not flying round the world." I don't know about you, but I'm with Tony. I think Dr Francis simply needs to get out more and meet people. Councillor Mary Docker, of the opposition Conservative group, added: "I looked on the website and I thought it was quite funny, it's so Americanized." In America, campaigners against Mr Palmer's radical Scientology course have set up an on-line petition to get the Course investigated, describing it as a "quasi-religious cult." Other critics have described the five week 'Look Good, Feel Good' course as "ridiculous". Normally, I would suggest that the last thing any politician needs is a course that will turn him or her into an even more insufferable and self-satisfied prick. I also find it impossible to believe that by spending £5,000 of tax-payers money travelling around the world - and attending these ridiculous courses - will make her MORE popular with her work-mates. |
 | Prime Ministers Question time Michael Heseltine Pt1 It's 18th April 1996, when John was in power and we were all better off even though we didnt know it. This time with Deputy PM Michael Heseltine and John Prescott guest starring George Galloway and Betty Boothroyd |
 | Rail Against Privatisation (Part 2) Members of the RMT transport union march across the country to demand the renationalisation of Britain's rail network. Join RMT online: www.rmt.org.uk. Unity is strength! |
 | RMT - Your Union, with Sue Johnston Actress Sue Johnston looks at the history, aims and objectives of British transport union RMT. Join RMT online: www.rmt.org.uk. Unity is strength! |
 | Ipswich Station area The show the Network Rail Depot, at Ipswich, which looks like it used to be used for a lot more than it is now. |
 | Manchester Protests Against NHS Privatisation and Cuts Manchester, England. 2006-7. This clip shows a series of demonstrations against budget cuts, job cuts and privatisation in the state-run National Health Service (NHS). It covers the period 2006-2007. Tony Blair's New Labour government claims that it has poured resources into the NHS. The reality is that it has poured the money into the pockets of private health contractors via the privatisation of elective surgery--that is surgery which is not urgently required due to an emergency. The money has also been syphoned off by the big banks via the notorious Private Finance Initiative (PFI). At the same time it has deliberately run down the state-run health service by starving it of resources. PFI is an expensive means of building new hospitals at grossly inflated prices using private finance at exhorbitent interest rates--saddling the NHS with huge debts that it will be paying back for decades. It is for this reason the PFI has been dubbed "Pay For Indefinitely." Private health contractors circle the NHS like buzzards grabbing the easy, lucrative, elective surgery cases leaving the NHS to cope with difficult, unprofitable emergency health care. Money is also wasted hiring grossly over-paid management "consultants" to troubleshoot resistance from the heath unions and force through privatisation. Then there are grossly inflated prices of medicines--the drug companies make millions in profits out the NHS--don't get me started on them. Nationalise the lot of them! And money is also being wasted on vast, hugely expensive, white elephant IT projects, like the proposed NHS "Spine" project, which are hugely profitable for the IT corporations. This involves uploading patients' medical records without telling them, and WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT, to a vast national database which will be accessible by hundreds of thousands of NHS staff. Most NHS staff are trustworthy professionals, but there are always corrupt elements in any workforce. It is a privacy nightmare. The NHS Spine will doubtless be hackable by snoopers and private detectives--given the appalling record of previous government IT projects--read the satirical magazine Private Eye for the lowdown on these. The onus is thus on NHS patients to opt out of the NHS Spine project, but THEY ARE NOT BEING TOLD that they have this right or how to do it. So here is how to opt out: NHS users can opt out of the NHS Spine project at: http://www.nhsconfidentiality.org/?page_id=9 |
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