2014 broadcasts of Radio Resistance (Chesterfield)

20th December, 2014

This week's broadcast has reports on:
- NHS staffing crisis
- SWP national conference
- Scottish Labour elect Blairite leader

Live speeches from Unite The Resistance - Striking Together conference, by :
- Lindsay Garrett of New Era housing campaign
- Amar of the Egyptian Medical Association

Live music from the SWP national conference, by Saba

Merry Xmas!

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11th December, 2014
This week's broadcast has reports on:
- Food banks
- The system's inconsistency towards policing protests
- Gaza floods

and live speeches from the Unite The Resistance - Striking Together conference, by:
- US fast food workers
- Lee Jasper of Black Activists Rising Against Cuts

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  5th December, 2014
In this week's broadcast, reports on:
- Tories' attack on immigrants' benefits
- New Era Housing campaign against rent hikes and eviction
- Secret changes to Motability Grant Making Conditions (thanks to Tim of DUWC for this info)
- Westminster waters down Scotland's "Vow"
- Tory paedophiles, virtuous paedophiles, and the sexualisation of children in adverts

Live recordings of speeches to the Unite The Resistance - Striking Together conference, by:
- Care UK striker Roger Hutt
- Freedom Riders representative

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28th November, 2014

This week's broadcast has reports on:
- NHS workers' strike
- Ukip by election victory and Tory racism
- Ferguson protests as killer cop goes free

Live audio from November 15th - Unite The Resistance - Striking Together conference:
- St Mungo's striker Adam Lambert
- BWAFU president Ian Hodson

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  21st November, 2014

This week's broadcast has reports on:
- Danger from UKIP as they win Rochester and Strood by-election
- NHS workers' strike on Monday 24th November
- Violence in Jerusalem and Israeli oppression of Palestinians

Live audio of speeches at the Unite The Resistance - Striking Together conference, by:
- RMT president Peter Pinkney
- Paula Peters of Disabled People Against Cuts

Live audio from SWP (Chesterfield) branch meeting on Pride, speech by Nicola Field of LGSM

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  14th November, 2014

In this week's broadcast, reports on:
- Victory for striking workers at St Mungo's
- Attempted coup in Labour Party against Ed Miliband
- Threatened acadamisation of Inkersall Primary School
- Medico's disappeared students, drug lords and stare corruption

Live audio from last Saturday's UAF counter demo against the EDL in Rotherham, of speeches by:
- Paul Scarrap, of Yorkshire UAF
- Carol Boucher, a nurse in Unison

Live audio from SWP Chesterfield branch meeting on the film Pride and its true story, of Joe Henry, a striking miner and NUM official during the 1984-85 miners' strike

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  7th November, 2014

Slightly early this week …

This week's broadcast has reports on:
- How Ebola could be stopped by cash the super-rich are raking in
- Burkina Faso popular rebellion brings down their leader
- Irish protests against water charges

As the EDL plan to march in Rotherham yet again, and a UAF anti-EDL mobilisation is planned, we feature live audio from the last Rotherham anti-EDL counter-demo, by Paul Sterrard, the UAF Yorkshire organiser


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Halloween broadcast, 2014

This week's broadcast has reports on
- Tories play the race card against Eastern Europeans and Muslims
- NHS crisis
- South Yorkshire police commissioner election and the child abuse inquiry

Interview with Richard Butcher, branch rep of Chesterfield FBU

Live audio from Britain Needs A Pay Rise London demo, speech by Len McCluskey of Unite The Union

Music this week is of a Halloween flavour (as if we weren't scared enough by this government's policies and actions!)

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  24th October, 2014

In this week's broadcast, reports on last Saturday's Britain Needs A Pay Rise demo, and on Lord Freud's rabid comments about disabled people.
An appeal for donations to the Socialist Worker appeal.

Live speeches from the Britain Needs A Pay Rise rally, by:
- Frances O'Grady, of the TUC
- Matt Wrack, of the FBU

Live speech from the Stand Up To Ukip rally, by Dave Nellist of TUSC

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17th October, 2014

In this week's broadcast, reports on:
- Strikes this week in the NHS and civil service
- Iraq war mission creep
- UKIP's worrying by election victory in Clacton

Live audio from
- this week's SWP Chesterfield branch meeting on Ebola: Why the system lets Africans die
- Stop The War's No To Bombing Iraq demo 4th October: Hugh Williams of Unison
- Stand Up To Ukip Doncaster demo 27th September: Natalie Bennett, Green Party leader

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10th October, 2014
This week's broadcast has reports on:
- Coming NHS, Further Education and Civil Service strikes
- UKIP danger after Clacton by-election victory
- Tories' attack on human rights

Live audio from last Saturday's Stop The War demo in London, from:
- Kehmet Aksol, a Kurdish activist
- Lindsay German, of Stop The war
- Andrew Murray of Unite union

Live audio from the September 28th demo outside the UKIP conference in Doncaster, from Jo Cardwell of Stand Up To Ukip

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3rd October, 2014
This week's broadcast has reports on:
- Why we must stop the bombing of Iraq
- Tory conference threatens more attacks on workers
- Democracy protests in Hong Kong

Live audio from the Stand Up To Ukip rally in Doncaster, by:
- Steve Hart of Stand Up To Ukip and UAF
- Ellen Clifford of DPAC
- A statement from the cast of Pride, read by Josh Holland

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27th September, 2014

This week's broadcast has reports on:
- MPs vote to bomb Iraq again
- Ed Miliband's speech to the Labour Party conference
- After the Scottish No vote, where next for the fightback
- Tesco's self-inflicted troubles

and live audio from last Saturday's Chesterfield fundraising dinner for Gaza projects
- Speech by Musheir Al-Farra, of Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign
- crowd sing Boycott Israeli Goods protest songs "Don't Buy Dates" and "Children Of palestine"

Plus, as usual
- News courtesy of Socialist Worker
- Red Guide to coming meetings, demos and anything of interest to left-wingers in the Chesterfield area
- Pick Of The Strikes, a round up of recent and coming strikes
- Direct Action, a round up of demos and protests

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19th September, 2014

This week's broadcast has reports on:
- Scotland votes No to independence - where next for socialists?
- Western bombing of Islamic State - why we must oppose more war
- Phones4U go bust due to asset-stripping

And recordings from last Saturday's anti-EDL demo in Rotherham, from:
- Joe Rowling of Unite Community
- Louise Harrison of Women Against Pit Closures

In addition to News, Red Guide and Pick Of The Strikes, a new regular feature is Direct Action - a round-up of demonstrations and protests

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13th September, 2014
In this week's broadcast, reports on:
- Scottish independence referendum
- Rotherham demo - Justice for the victims, Don't let the racists divide us
- Demo outside UKIP conference on September 27th
- Ian Paisley - Good riddance to bad rubbish

and live audio of speeches at the Rotherham anti fascist demo, by:
- Weyman Bennett, Unite Against Fascism joint national secretary
- Fred Spreg, of Rotherham NUT
- Julie Armstrong, of South Yorkshire NUJ

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5th September, 2014
In this week's broadcast, reports on:
- Rotherham child abuse scandal
- Islamic State, new terror laws, and Nato terrorism
- Ashya King and NHS under-funding

plus a report back from SWP South Yorkshire District meeting

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29th August, 2014
This week's broadcast has reports on:
- Save Our NHS march comes to Chesterfield
- Rotherham child abuse scandal
- Scottish independence referendum
- Gunstones bakery in Dronfield announces redundancies

Live audio from 999:Save Our NHS rally in Chesterfield, including
- speeches by Lynn of North Derbyshire Unison, and Robin Priest of 38 degrees
- live music, including Belper NHS SOS Pop Up Choir

and excerpts from SWP Chesterfield branch meeting on Scottish independence

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22nd August, 2014
This week's broadcast has been split into two parts, due to technical issues.

In part 1, we have reports on:
- US Police extra-judicial execution of Michael Brown
- Bombing of Iraq and Tilbury refugees

and live audio from:
- Chesterfield PSC Gaza demo - James Eaden
- Chesterfield SWP branch meeting on Privilege Theory, by Rebecca (Sheffield branch)

In part 2 of this week's broadcast, reports on
- Cameron's family values
- People's March for the NHS coming to Chesterfield

and live audio from
- Sue Owen of Chesterfield Palestine Solidarity Campaign at the Chesterfield PSC Gaza demo

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Part 2 - listen or download
and audio from SWP Chesterfield branch meeting
Privilege Theory


15th August, 2014


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and audio from SWP Chesterfield branch meeting
Israel - A Terror State

8th August, 2014

In this week's broadcast, features on:
- Israel's murderous war on Gaza
- Why bombing the Islamic State in Iraq will only make things far, far worse
- Why we must resist TTIP

plus live audio from Marxism 2014
- Michael Roberts on the Marxist theory of crisis - the nature of the current long depression

And, as always
- News courtesy of Socialist Worker
- Red Guide to events of interest to left-wingers in the Chesterfield wider area
- Pick Of The Strikes, a round up of strikes locally and nationally

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1st August, 2014
This week's broadcast has features on:
- Israel's continuing atrocities in Gaza
- Israel's violent imperialist history
- Nick Griffin's removal as leader of Nazi BNP
- Freedom Ride protests step up the pressure

and live audio from Marxism 2014
- Britain's Housing Crisis, by Josh Brown

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plus live audio from Marxism 2014

Josh Brown - Britain's Housing Crisis

25th July, 2014
In this week's broadcast, reports of:
- Israeli attacks on Gaza, and international protests
- Shooting down of Malaysia MH17 plane over Ukraine

A new feature is the Strike round-up

Live audio from Maxine Bowler, at the Sheffield Gaza solidarity demo

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18th July, 2014
Reports this week on:
- Israel's attacks on Palestine
- Marxism 2014
- July 14th public sector workers' strikes
- Freedom Riders
- review of BBC3's Glasgow Girls

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9th July, 2014
In this week's broadcast, we have reports on:
- 10th July coming mass strike
- Freedom Riders court case and social care services cuts
- Inquiry into child abuse by politicians etc
- Info for Chesterfield comrades attending Marxism 2014

Plus live speech from FBU General Secretary Matt Wrack, at the Peoples Assembly Against Austerity demo in London

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4th July, 2014
A mammoth broadcast this week, featuring reports on:
- 10th July strikes
- Disability protests, including the Freedom Riders
- Violence in the Holy land
- Andy Coulson and Rolf Harris go to jail
- Iraq sectarianism - statement from Middle East socialists

Info on Marxism 2014

Live at the Peoples Assembly Against Austerity rally:
- Unite assistant secretary
- Owen Jones
- Mark Steel

Live at Orgreave Picnic
- Ken Capstick, former vice president of Yorkshire NUM

Chesterfield SWP branch meeting
- Is our behaviour in our genes? by Maxine Bowler

And, as usual, News from Socialist Worker, the Red Guide, and loads of music, both live and pre-recorded

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and full recording of Chesterfield SWP branch meeting

Maxine Bowler - is our behaviour in our genes?

27th June, 2014
This week's broadcast has reports on:
- Andy Coulson's conviction for phone hacking, and its implications for Cameron, the government and the Establishment
- Freedom Riders suffer police repression with 2 arrests

and, unlike the BBC, we have coverage of the 50,000 strong Peoples Assembly Against Austerity demo including speeches by
- Russell Brand
- Care UK striker Roger Hutt
- Lindsay German of the Stop The War Coalition
and live music from Logic and Leon Rosselson

Neither state capitalist nor private capitalist, but community radio!

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20th June, 2014
In this week's broadcast:

Reports on:
- Iraq, ISIS and Western imperialism
- Unite Against Fascism conference in London, Saturday 14th June 2014
- People's Assembly demo against austerity in London - why you should be there!

Plus live audio:
- Barbara Jackson of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign, at the Orgreave Picnic festival
- SWP Chesterfield branch meeting on Austerity - how successful has the resistance to austerity been so far ?

Plus music recorded live at the Orgreave Picnic festival

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13th June, 2014
This week's broadcast has info on:
- Operation Trojan Horse - a racist lie
- the dark side of the World Cup
- a victory for Calow Against Gas Extraction
- report from Disability Campaigners Chesterfield meeting
- the coming Orgreave Picnic festival

and live audio from the SWP Chesterfield branch meeting on China - 25 years since Tiananmen Square

Live music from last Saturday's Chesterfield Rock Against Racism gig

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6th June, 2014
In this week's broadcast, reports on:
- Newark by election, Operation Centurion, and anti immigrant racism
- Anti racist demos in France and Northern Ireland
- Spain's King Juan Carlos to abdicate
- Coming public sector and other strikes

plus live audio from:
- Calow Against Gas Extraction public meeting
- SWP Chesterfield branch meeting on the Levellers and the Diggers

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also

SWP (Chesterfield) branch meeting: The Levellers and the Diggers

30th May, 2014
This week's broadcast focuses on the European elections, including:
- UK results and analysis
- Irish European and local elections
- Euro election results from across Europe
- UKIP - can the tide be turned?

Plus live speech from Chesterfield May Day by NUT rep Sally Kincade



23rd May, 2014
In this week's broadcast:
- Analysis of UK council election results
- Indian elections, Thailand coup, Australian protests, and Greek elections
- Astra Zenica takeover and Care UK strike
- Counter demo against EDL in Sutton-in-Ashfield

Live excerpt from SWP Chesterfield branch meeting on A Rebel's Guide To James Connolly

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also
SWP (Chesterfield) branch meeting: A Rebel's Guide To James Connolly (in full)

16th May, 2014
This week's broadcast has reports on:
- the record number of billionaire parasites in the UK
- kidnapping of school girls in Nigeria by Boko Haram

and live speeches of:
- Rotherham UAF demo against the EDL - Weyman Bennett (national secretary of UAF) and George Arthur of the Freedom Riders campaign
- Karen Weissman (Unison NEC) at Care UK strike demo on 19/4/2014
- James Eaden (UCU) at Chesterfield May Day
- DPAC Chesterfield meeting on May Day - Gary Matthews
- SWP (Chesterfield) branch meeting - World War 1, those who resisted


9th May, 2014
This week, reports on:
- Gerry Adams' arrest
- UKIP danger in Euro elections

Live audio from:
- Matt Wrack, FBU general secretary, at Chesterfield May Day
- Chesterfield DPAC (Disabled People Against Cuts) meeting on May Day

plus much live music from Chesterfield Rock Against Racism and Chesterfield May Day



2nd May, 2014
In this week’s Radio Resistance ...

Reports on:
- Coming and ongoing strikes
- Egypt military government's repression of opposition
- coming May Day rally in Chesterfield

Live recordings of:
- Disabled People Against Cuts's Roger Lewis at Care UK strike rally (19/4/2014)
- People's Assembly national secretary Sam Fairburn at London Stand Up To Racism and Fascism demo (22/3/2014)


25th April, 2014

This week's broadcast has reports on:
- Food banks
- British Muslims visiting Syria, Birmingham schools' Islamophobic panic, UKIPs rabid racism, and TUSC - the real alternative
- International Socialist Journal, spring 2014

Plus live recordings made at the Care UK (Doncaster) strike demo, on the strike and on the South Yorkshire Freedom Riders

Live recording of SWP Derby branch meeting on Fracking and the Environment


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18th April, 2014
In this week's broadcast:

Reports on
- Health workers vote for strikes, and the care UK dispute
- Hillsborough disaster and Nicky Jacobs' acquittal
- Derbyshire Unemployed Workers Centre moves to new premises
- South Yorkshire Freedom Ride

Live recording of SWP Chesterfield branch meeting on the Ukraine - "Neither Washington nor Moscow"

Live recording of members of the Roma community speaking on March 22nd Stand Up To Racism & Fascism demo and rally in London

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11th April, 2014
In this week's broadcast, reports on:
- Care UK strike - Sunday's rally
- recent smog in the UK - the real causes
- French fascist election gains and the left fight back
- Maria Miller's resignation and MPs' election fraud
- report from Chesterfield SWP branch meeting on The Miners' Strike

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4th April, 2014
In this week's broadcast:

Reports on
- Yarl's Wood, detention centres and why we say refugees are welcome here
- alarming rise of fascist FN in France, due to disillusionment with mainstream parties
- Doncaster Care UK strike continues

live audio of Janet Alder and Carol Duggan (mothers of Christopher Alder and Mark Duggan), recorded on March 22nd Stand Up To Racism and fascism demo in London

SWP Chesterfield branch meeting on The Threat Of UKIP

And as always:
- News courtesy of Socialist Worker
- Red Guide to strikes, demos, meetings, entertainment and other events of interest to left-wingers in the Chesterfield area
-music by left wing recording artists or with a left wing theme
-including a live recording of Ghetts at the March 22nd Stand Up To Racism & Fascism demo in London

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28th March, 2014
This week's broadcast contains reports on:
- George Osborne's welfare cuts
- March 22nd Stand Up To Racism & Fascism demo in London
- Egypt crackdown and continuing resistance

Report from SWP Chesterfield branch meeting on Rosa Luxemburg

Speeches at Stand Up To Racism & Fascism London demo by Weyman Bennett (UAF chair) and Jerry Dammers

Music by Jamie Joseph, recorded live at the Stand Up To Racism & Fascism London demo


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21st March, 2014

This week's broadcast has reports on:

- Crimea, Ukraine, Russia and Western hypocrisy
- Teachers' strike on 26th March
- Health unions threaten industrial action over poor pay
- SWP reply to ULU statement on Marxism
- Report of SWP Chesterfield branch meeting on Tony Benn
- Why we oppose immigration controls

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14th March, 2014

This week's broadcast features:
- Tribute to Tony Benn
- Tribute to Bob Crow, RMT leader
- Stephen Lawrence inquiry and Police racism and corruption
- Manchester demo against Fracking
- Speech by Dennis Skinner MP at Born In '84 miners' strike commemorative event
- Report from SWP Chesterfield branch meeting - "Was there ever a golden age of the Labour Party?"
- Music recorded live at Born In '84 (at Chesterfield Winding Wheel, 8th March 2014)

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7th March, 2014
This week's broadcast covers:
- Care UK strike in Doncaster
- SWP Chesterfield branch meeting on Ukraine
- Stand Up To Raciam & Fascism demo on March 22nd in London
- Continuing strikes in Egypt
- ProPeace Chesterfield
- Born In '84 commemoration of the 1980's miners' strike

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28th February, 2014

This week's broadcast features:
- Food banks
- Atos to pull out of Work Capability Assessments
- Labour, NCCL, PIE and the Mail
- Chesterfield SWP meeting on LGBT oppression
- Care UK strike in Doncaster
- Venezuela
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Return broadcast
22nd February, 2014


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31st January, 2014

Left wing alternative radio for the Chesterfield area.
This week's broadcast features:
- World War 1 - people who refused to fight
- Ricky Tomlinson and the Shrewsbury 24 campaign
- Book launch of "Land And Labour" by Martin Empson
- Drug resistant TB and immigration
- Recordings from Chesterfield's Holocaust Memorial Day event
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25th January, 2014

This week's broadcast has features on:
- Syria and the Geneva talks
- Sports Direct Shirebrook working conditions
- Egypt; revolution in peril but not over yet
- Report from SWP Chesterfield branch meeting; How the Tories are wrecking education
- "Voices" play to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day


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17th January, 2014
In this week's broadcast:
- Bedroom tax exemption loophole
- Scandal of baby born in Shirebrook Sports Direct toilet
- Benefit Street - right wing "poverty porn"
- Report from SWP Chesterfield branch meeting - Is the UK economy really in recovery?
- Socialist Review January 2014
- "Land And labour" Chesterfield book launch

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10th January, 2014
Info/discussions in this week's broadcast on:
- George Osborne plans yet more vicious cuts
- Education For Socialists now online
- "Lawful killing" verdict on Police shooting of Mark Duggan
- Report back from SWP conference in December 2013
- Report from Chesterfield Unite Against Fascism organising meeting
- Plans for a Thatcher Day holiday


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3rd January, 2014
In this week's broadcast, discussions on:
- Tax avoidance - only for the rich
- The "Influx" of Bulgarians and Romanians - media panic vs reality
- Recent floods and storms in the UK
- Disabled people protest against Gove'splans to attack inclusive education
- Wealthy Texan escapes jail sentence due to "Affluenza"
- Hunger Games 2 - Catching Fire movie

No news this week (Socialist Worker still on holiday for Xmas), but will be back next week :)

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Earlier broadcasts from 2013

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