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3
Apr
Posted by Birmingham Respect in Articles, Campaigns, Salma Yaqoob. Tagged: Birmingham Respect, candidates, policies, Respect, Respect party, what we stand for. 2 Comments
Investment not cuts Slashing public spending will only deepen the recession. Instead of the obsession with cuts we need to invest for growth. This will allow Government income to rise and will cut unemployment. That is the best way to reduce the national debt. Troops out of Afghanistan Too many lives have been lost. Escalating [...]
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3
Apr
Posted by Birmingham Respect in Articles, Salma Yaqoob. Tagged: Alternative to cuts, Banks, Birmingham City Council, Jobs, Labour, Lib Dems, Public Services, Respect, Respect party, Robin Hood Tax, Salma Yaqoob, Tories. Leave a Comment
Labour, Tories and Lib Dems say there is ‘no alternative’ to cuts. They only disagree on when to wield the knife. These are the same people who said there was ‘no alternative’ to war in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is an alternative. The Robin Hood Tax is one. It calls for a tiny tax on [...]
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5
Jan
Posted by Birmingham Respect in Articles, News, Salma Yaqoob. Tagged: Afghan, Afghanistan, Al-Ghurabaa, Al-Muhajiroun, Anjem Choudary, Bigot, British, controversy, England, Islam, Islam4UK, march, Muslims, protest, Question Time, Respect party, Salma Yaqoob, soldiers, troops, UK, war, Wootton Bassett. 1 Comment
Salma Yaqoob, chair of Birmingham Stop the War, says If we are genuinely concerned about the troops, as we are about the Afghan people, we must have an open debate about why we are in Afghanistan and whether we should pull out. By Salma Yaqoob | guardian.co.uk | 5 January 20105 January 2010 When I [...]
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1
Dec
Posted by Birmingham Respect in Articles, News, Salma Yaqoob. Tagged: 2010, Abjol Miah, BNP, Caroline Lucas, Conservatives, David Cameron, Elections, General Election, George Galloway, Gordon Brown, Green Party, Labour, Lib Dems, Member of Parliament, MP, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Nick Griffin, Parliament, Question Time, Respect, Respect party, Salma Yaqoob, Tories, vote, voting, Westminster. 2 Comments
The General Election is a matter of months away. Once again, this is an election in which only two parties are competing to form a government – Labour or the Tories. A series of opinion polls have pointed strongly to the defeat of the Labour government. The outcome, however, is not a foregone conclusion. A [...]
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16
Nov
Posted by Birmingham Respect in Articles, Events, News, Salma Yaqoob. Tagged: 2009, Andrew Murray, Birmingham, Caroline Lucas, George Galloway, Green Party, Kevin Ovenden, Manifesto, National Conference, Nick Cranie, Nick Wrack, No2EU, Peter Tatchell, Respect, Respect Annual Conference, Respect party, Salma Yaqoob, Yvonne Ridley. 3 Comments
The Respect annual conference took place in Birmingham on Saturday with 210 delegates attending. The event revolved around the three key themes of our general election campaign: anti-racism and defense of multiculturalism, opposition to the cuts agenda of the mainstream parties, and international solidarity. The opening session was introduced by Respect party leader Salma Yaqoob. [...]
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16
Jul
Posted by Birmingham Respect in Articles, Salma Yaqoob. Tagged: Birmingham, Birmingham City Council, BNP, Britain, British, British National Party, Councillor, England, Europe, European Parliemant, European Union, fascism, fascist, Gordon Brown, Islam, Muslim, Nick Griffin, Politics, racism, racist, Respect, Respect party, Salma Yaqoob, Sparkbrook, UK, Unity Coalition, Wales. 19 Comments
The election of two BNP MEPs has removed the cover on a political sewer that should have been sealed for all time. Nick Griffin, a man with a history of anti-Semitism and holocaust denial, now calls for “chemotherapy” against the Islamic “cancer” in Europe (1). The echoes of the past are deliberate. The choice of [...]
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1
Jul
Posted by Birmingham Respect in Articles, News, Salma Yaqoob. Tagged: Asylum Seekers, Birmingham, BNP, British National Party, Gordon Brown, Housing, Immigrants, Immigration, Labour, Salma Yaqoob, Social Housing, study, Tories, UK. 1 Comment
By Salma Yaqoob Gordon Brown’s pledge to provide “local homes for local people” is based on a myth. And it is the same myth spread by the BNP for years. The BNP claim that “local people” are losing out to immigrants and asylum seekers. This is not true. The Prime Minister is trying to win [...]
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16
Jun
Posted by Birmingham Respect in Articles, News, Salma Yaqoob. Tagged: Afghanistan, Arab, Barack Obama, Ben Quinn, Birmingham, Christian Science Monitor, England, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamic, Muslim, Salma Yaqoob, speech, world, Yahya Birt. Leave a Comment
‘The absence in his speech of any bellicose threats to Iran stands in stark contrast to his predecessor,’ says a Muslim politician in Birmingham. By Ben Quinn | Contributor 06.04.09 |Christian Science Monitor LONDON – In Britain, home to one of Europe’s largest Muslim communities, as well as many members of the Arab diaspora, there [...]
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8
Jun
Posted by Birmingham Respect in Articles, Campaigns, News, Salma Yaqoob. Tagged: 2009, anti-BNP, BNP, British National Party, Conservatives, European Elections, European Parliament, fascism, fascist, General Election, Green Party, Labour, Left, Liberal Democrats, Nick Griffin, No2EU, racism, racist, Respect party, results, Salma Yaqoob, UK, UK Independence Party, UKIP, victory, win. Leave a Comment
Statement on the euro-election results by Councillor Salma Yaqoob, Respect party Leader: “The historic scale of Labour’s defeat at the ballot box is evidence of the deep betrayal felt by those who once voted Labour in the hope of a fairer society. The depth of disillusionment with the mainstream parties is underlined by the shocking [...]
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21
Apr
Posted by Birmingham Respect in Articles, News, Salma Yaqoob. Tagged: emel, Equality and Human Rights Commission, magazine, Muslim Women Power List, newspaper, Salma Yaqoob, Sarah Joseph, Syeeda Warsi, The Times, Trevor Phillips. Leave a Comment
Respect party leader Salma Yaqoob has been included in a specially commissioned Power List of Muslim Women, compiled by the Equality and Human Rights Commission in conjunction with The Times newspaper and Muslim lifestyle journal emel magazine. The list was chosen by a panel of judges chaired by Trevor Phillips, Chair of the Equality and [...]
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