30 January 2012

Gagging order on Tommy Sheridan is lifted

The threat to stop Tommy Sheridan from speaking out after his release from prison today has been withdrawn, but not his tagging

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28 January 2012

Anger over Tommy Sheridan 'gagging order'

"Tommy Sheridan's lawyer has accused prison authorities of trying to "gag" him on his release from jail, writes BBC report: 28 January 2012 Last updated at 13:41.

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30 November 2011

A message from Tommy Sheridan

Tommy Sheridan, class fighter and socialist ex-Member of the Scottish Parliament, sent this message of solidarity to be read out to the Socialism 2011 rally on 5 November...

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2 February 2011

Tommy Sheridan jailing: Political vendetta ends in draconian sentence

SCOTTISH SOCIALIST Tommy Sheridan was jailed for three years on 26 January having being found guilty on charges of perjury...

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5 January 2011

Tommy Sheridan guilty verdict is a sham

Statement from Socialist Party Scotland: "I have fought the power of News International all my political life and I make no apologies for taking on the might of Rupert Murdoch...

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23 December 2010

Tommy Sheridan guilty verdict is a sham

Statement from Socialist Party Scotland: "I have fought the power of News International all my political life and I make no apologies for taking on the might of Rupert Murdoch...

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15 December 2010

Tommy Sheridan trial: Cameron's spin doctor let off the hook

AS THE perjury trial of former socialist MSP Tommy Sheri-dan and his partner Gail neared its conclusion, the former editor of the News of the World (NoW) tabloid, Andy Coulson, gave evidence in court...

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8 November 2010

Vendetta continues against Tommy Sheridan, socialist fighter

Tommy and Gail Sheridan's perjury trial is now in its sixth week and is certain to be the longest case of its kind in Scottish legal history...

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20 September 2010

Scotland: Tommy Sheridan facing legal battle

Tommy Sheridan and his partner Gail begin their trial on charges of perjury on Monday 4 October at the High Court in Glasgow.
This case, brought by the Scottish Crown Office, follows Tommy Sheridan's famous defamation victory over Rupert Murdoch's News of the World...

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3 March 2010

The hounding of Tommy Sheridan

Need for public inquiry into activities of News International: THE MURDOCH empire's vendetta against prominent Scottish socialist and a leader of the mass anti-poll tax campaign of the late 1980s and early 1990s, Tommy Sheridan, is well known...

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20 October 2009

Tommy Sheridan - a socialist fighter on a worker's wage

Glasgow North East by-election: TOMMY SHERIDAN is standing in the Glasgow North East by-election on 12 November. Standing as a "Workers' MP on a Worker's Wage" for Solidarity - Scotland's Socialist Movement - Tommy contrasts strongly...

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18 February 2009

Political vendetta against Tommy Sheridan

ACCORDING TO the online legal magazine The Firm: "Senior sources within the Crown Office have claimed that Lothian and Borders Police placed them under 'incredible pressure' to proceed to bring prosecutions against Tommy Sheridan and Gail Sheridan, following their arrest in November 2007 on perju...

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11 February 2009

Vendetta continues against socialist fighter

Tommy Sheridan and Gail Sheridan are to face a trial on charges of perjury. The Scottish Crown Office is to press ahead with a court case after one of the most expensive and lengthy police investigations...

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2 January 2009

Tommy Sheridan in Celebrity Big Brother

The appearance of Tommy Sheridan in Celebrity Big Brother will have disappointed many people who know of his role as an uncompromising fighter for the interests of the working class over the past 25 years.

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18 June 2008

Workplace news in brief

PCS member Eddie Fleming's Employment Tribunal is taking place on 25 June, and the union is organising a lobby in his support. Eddie, the chair of the PCS union branch at the Child Support Agency (CSA), was sacked for his union activities on trumped up charges...

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11 June 2008

Stirring rally backs Tommy Sheridan

Tommy Sheridan in 2007

AT AN inspiring rally in Glasgow on 7 June, 250 people pledged their support for Tommy Sheridan, Gail Sheridan, Gus Healey, Graeme McIver, Rosemary Byrne, Jock Penman and Pat Smith, writes Jim McFarlane, CWI Scotland.

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27 February 2008

Scotland - Vendetta against Tommy Sheridan condemned

Tommy Sheridan, speaking in 2007

A total of seven people including Tommy Sheridan and his wife Gail have now been charged with perjury by Lothian and Borders Police, writes Philip Stott, Dundee

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20 February 2008

Stop the witch-hunt: Defend the Sheridan seven

Tommy Sheridan, photo Paul Mattsson

The ongoing police investigation into possible perjury during the Tommy Sheridan defamation case against the News of the World has become an out-and out witch-hunt against not only Tommy Sheridan but anyone who supported him during the trial... By Philip Stott, Dundee

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23 January 2008

Defend Tommy Sheridan

Tommy Sheridan, photo Paul Mattsson

ON 16 December, former Scottish Socialist Party MSP Tommy Sheridan was charged by Lothian and Borders police after the most expensive perjury investigation ever in Scotland... By Philip Stott

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13 December 2007

End Murdoch's vendetta: No more public money for billionaire's campaign

Tommy Sheridan's sensational defamation victory over the News of the World (NotW) in July 2006 sent shock waves through Rupert Murdoch's global media empire... By Philip Stott, International Socialists, Scotland

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