Share By ETUC In the face of a worsening economic and social situation and the ever-tougher austerity measures being imposed by Europe’s leaders, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has called for a European day of action on 29 February, the eve of the European Council. Trade unions will mobilise across Europe to...
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Share By PCS The PCS union has launched a pamphlet on the need to defend and strengthen the welfare state. The 24-page booklet was unveiled at a public meeting in Brighton – during PCS’s conference in the city. The aim is to arm activists with the information needed to campaign against attacks on...
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Share By UK Uncut A group of over 200 people today blocked Oxford Circus and brought the surrounding area to a complete standstill, with traffic backlogs extending for several hundred yards. At 12 o’clock, a group of 20 wheelchair users from Disabled People Against the Cuts chained themselves together in the middle of...
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Share By Keith Flett Haringey Trades Union Council has said a 1000 strong march of parents, students trade unionists and community activists has marched from Downhills School in Tottenham to Haringey Civic Centre in Wood Green today The march, which was called by the Haringey Campaign Against Academies and others was designed to...
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Share By Clare Sambrook The very basis of the NHS is under threat and we urgently need to come together to fight the anti-democratic NHS Bill – its not too late argues award winning journalist Clare Sambrook. This is a wake-up call to the people of England. If we do not rouse ourselves...
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Share Mikis Theodorakis and Manolis Glezos have issued this Appeal to the peoples of Europe 65 years after the defeat of nazism and fascism, European people are today confronting a dramatic threat, this time not military, but a financial, social and political one. A new “Empire of Money” has been systematically attacking one European...
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Share It’s January. It’s freezing. Christmas emptied the coffers and now the bills are starting to bite. As the Big Six energy companies rake in profits of 700% and the government freezes the fuel allowance, it’s time to tell the Big Six and the government that we’ve had enough! Fuel poverty is a public...
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Share By FITwatch The FITwatch website has published evidence that London students who occupied a space in the run-up to the November 30th public sector strike were under the jurisdiction of the Met’s SO15 Counter Terrorism Command. Bloomsbury Social Centre – which aimed to be a “hub of organising for students, workers and...
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Share By Adrian Cousins The Tories are crowing over their opinion poll lead and are claiming an increase in the number who agree with cuts. But the left shouldn’t believe the hype. Read the polls carefully, argues Adrian Cousins, and draw some practical conclusions. Figure 1: Thinking about the way the government is...
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Mark Steel on Question Time – bankers’ bonuses and benefit caps
Share Mark Steel The Benefits Cap and the injustice of massive bounuses and tax avoidance write-offs attacked by Mark Steel on Question Time – to loud applause from the audience.
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