Archive for November 2012
1 November 2012
2 November 2012
Train cleaners striking for decent pay and conditions
RMT cleaners from across four railway networks have been taking strike action against unscrupulous employers
2 November 2012
Mid Yorkshire NHS admin staff strike against pay cuts
On 1st November admin and clerical workers in the Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust took strike action in defence of pay
2 November 2012
5 November 2012
Crossrail blacklisting - video of protests
Below is the link to a Reel News video about the on-going campaign against the sacking of 28 Crossrail workers at Westbourne Park and in particular the victimisation and blacklisting of the Unite shop steward Frank Morris
5 November 2012
An inspirational weekend of socialist discussion and debate took place in London over the weekend 3-4 November, organised by the Socialist Party
6 November 2012
Visteon pensioners take solidarity to Fords workers
Yesterday, two weeks after 1,400 Ford workers were told that they face the dole, 80 ex-Ford Visteon pensioners leafleted the Ford plants in Bridgend and Dagenham as their union Unite prepares for legal action to win back the full value of their pensions from Ford
7 November 2012
Firefighters from across the country are lobbying parliament today (7th November) over horrendous proposed cuts to the fire sservice
7 November 2012
Socialism 2012, photo Senan
A socialist alternative to rotten, bankrupt capitalism: An inspirational weekend of socialist rallies, discussion and debate took place over the weekend 3-4 November, organised by the Socialist Party...
7 November 2012
Exeter Socialist Students leads campaign to victory
Socialist Students in Exeter did a debt-o-meter on the Campaign to Defeat Fees day of action in 2008, photo Jim THomsom
Support the national student demonstration: Socialist Students recently won a major victory in the University of Exeter Students' Guild (the local student union), writes Carlus Hudson, Exeter Socialist Students.
7 November 2012
Attendance Policy campaign launched at UEL
On 31 October 33 students came to the University of East London (UEL) Socialist Students meeting - Scrap the Unfair Attendance Policy, writes Ian Pattison.
7 November 2012
Teacher bashing season continues
Unfortunately the 'teacher bashing' season isn't finished yet. A salvo was launched by Ofqual last week, when most teachers were on a well-deserved break, accusing them of fiddling coursework marks...
7 November 2012
USA: 'Frankenstorm' leaves massive trail of destruction
The gigantic Frankenstorm hurricane Sandy has put thousands out of their homes, left millions without power, and claimed more than 100 lives across north eastern USA, photo by NASA
End the era of 'disaster capitalism': The gigantic 'Frankenstorm' hurricane Sandy has put thousands out of their homes, left millions without power, and claimed more than 100 lives across north eastern USA...
7 November 2012
Kazakhstan: Vadim Kuramshin facing arrest and new trial
Well-known human rights activist, Vadim Kuramshin, has been arrested and now faces a lengthy prison sentence
7 November 2012
Bradford's Hardest Hit lobby council
Around 25 people, mostly from the Bradford Disabled Peoples Forum, held a Hardest Hit protest in Centenary Square, Bradford on Friday 2 November...
7 November 2012
Inspiring cycle ride raises £550
The finance appeal at the Socialism 2012 rally was kicked off by a donation of £550 from Andrew Price, from Cardiff South Socialist Party, writes Ken Douglas, Socialist Party national treasurer.
7 November 2012
Can you donate to our appeal? The Socialist is aiming to raise £12,000 to enable us to buy a new computer server and is asking all members and supporters to contribute...
7 November 2012
Rotherham needs a workers' MP instead of New Labour frauds
On Friday 2 November, Blairite Denis MacShane resigned as Labour MP for Rotherham, following a damning report exposing his fraudulent expenses claims, writes Alistair Tice, Yorkshire Socialist Party.
7 November 2012
Heseltine's economy report is no solution
Alex Davidson, Manchester Central TUSC candidate 15 November 2012, photo Senan
The end of October saw the publication of a report by former Tory minister Michael Heseltine on the economy, writes Alex Davidson, Manchester Central TUSC candidate.
7 November 2012
£20 billion, according to corporate advisers Catalyst, is the size of the "opportunity" for private health firms in the NHS over the next few years thanks to the Con-Dems' Health and Social Care Act, writes Tom Baldwin, Bristol TUSC mayoral candidate.
7 November 2012
Liverpool: Standing against 'death by cuts'
Socialist Party member Charley Cosgrove is standing for TUSC in the Knotty Ash ward in the Liverpool city council byelection on Thursday 15 November...
7 November 2012
Neath Port Talbot needs fighting unions
Recently I read a headline in the South Wales Evening Post - "Strike fears over council budget" - about Neath Port Talbot council, writes a Unison local government member
7 November 2012
Walsall councillor's 'defy cuts' challenge to Labour
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition-backed Walsall councillor Pete Smith has made a public appeal to the West Midlands borough's 28 Labour councillors
7 November 2012
Football: Showing racism the red card
Newspaper sports pages are filled with debate about racism in the 'beautiful game' or the 'ugly game' as the Sunday Mirror (4 November) now calls football...
7 November 2012
Far right attack Socialist sellers
Two members of the Socialist Party successfully defended themselves against a violent attack by a far-right thug as they were leafleting and selling the Socialist outside Blackhorse Road tube station in Walthamstow, east London last week...
7 November 2012
October 1992 battle against pit closures
Mary Jackson, formerly of Women Against Pit Closures, photo by Alison Hill
Hundreds of thousands march against vicious Tory government: On 13 October 1992, the then Tory trade secretary, Michael Heseltine, announced the closure of 31 of the 50 deep coal mines that remained in the UK after Thatcher's closures in the 1980s, writes Mike Forster.
7 November 2012
United action to save all Ford jobs!
Picketing at Fords Dagenham, 18 June 2012, photo Pete Mason
National Shop Stewards Network and Socialist Party members have been producing regular bulletins supporting the Ford workers fighting the closure of the Ford plants in Dagenham and Southampton...
7 November 2012
Two fatal incidents on separate construction sites in London have again cast the spotlight on safety in the construction industry...
7 November 2012
Black cabs: Workers at Coventry black cab maker LTI, staged a sit-in on 31 October before entering talks with administrators, PWC...
7 November 2012
When is a living wage not a living wage?
ISS picket line at Newcastle Central Station, 10.9.12 , photo by Elaine Brunskill
Labour backs the living wage! No more will workers have to eat own-brand cardboard! The Milibands will politely ask that bosses pay us enough to stay alive!, writes James Ivens.
7 November 2012
Hospitals suffer from privatisation debt
Sherwood Forest: I read with alarm that the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) debts at King's Mill Hospital, part of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, have now doubled from £1.26 billion to £2.05 billion over the 38 years of the 'mortgage'...
7 November 2012
Conflict of interests: In 2004 Tory Iain Duncan Smith launched the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) - a right-wing lobby group...
7 November 2012
London Unite union: Strike threat pays off
In London Unite has noticed an increasingly hard line taken by EDF energy when dealing with disciplinary matters against its workers
7 November 2012
Hull: Socialist policies needed for a real recovery
The announcement that we're out of recession is laughable for most people. The 1% growth must be a misprint as the only growth working class people see is in the income of the 1%
7 November 2012
20 Socialist students activists marched round Sheffield city centre against tuition fees and to restore EMA, joined by NUT rep, photo Sheffield Socialist Students
March for jobs and education: In the winter of 2010,Cameron, Clegg and their rich mates managed to weather the storm of student protest and forced through the most draconian raft of education 'reforms' ever enacted in Britain
7 November 2012
Report of Socialism 2012 weekend of discussion and debate on 3-4 November: With increased warnings now of a 'triple-dip' recession the need to step up preparations for a 24-hour general strike was a major theme of Socialism 2012. Sarah Sachs-Eldridge gives a taste of a fantastic event
8 November 2012
PCS day of protest on 30 November
Tens of thousands of Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) members are being urged to take Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude at his word by staging 15-minute protests against plans to rip up working conditions in the civil service and related organisations...
8 November 2012
10 November 2012
Doncaster drivers go to war with Tesco
I've never been on a picket line like it! An armoured personnel carrier and a farmer's muckspreader blocked the gates to the depot
10 November 2012
Police elections window-dressing
On 15 November, elections will take place for new police commissioners. For the Con-Dem coalition, the timing is not good.
11 November 2012
11 November 2012
12 November 2012
Commemorating the Clay Cross struggle
"This council believed that when they were elected they would be held accountable", said David Skinner, who in 1972, as a Labour councillor, attempted to defend his constituents
14 November 2012
Join the NUS demo on 21 November
Free education, bring back EMA, make the 1% pay!: Up to £9,000 tuition fees, with loan interest charged at 3% above inflation from the day you start. EMA student payments scrapped or facing cuts across the whole of Britain. Soaring youth unemployment...
14 November 2012
Who wants to be a PCC?: On 15 November around 200 hopefuls will be 'battling' it out to become one of the 41 newly elected police commissioners around the country. So who are the candidates?...
14 November 2012
Can you donate to our appeal? The Socialist Party is aiming to raise £12,000 to enable us to buy a new computer server and is asking all members and supporters to contribute...
14 November 2012
Che Guevara - Symbol of fashion or symbol of struggle?
Che Guevara, photo Alberto Korda
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara is perhaps the most recognisable revolutionary icon, his image having graced countless posters and t-shirts, writes Tom Baldwin, South West Socialist Party.
14 November 2012
Virgin Media announced during a conference call with CWU national officials on 2 November that they are running a referendum among staff asking whether they want the union recognition agreement to remain in force...
14 November 2012
Support Ford workers: On Sunday 11 November, more than 15,000 people attended a demonstration organised by the Belgian trade unions for jobs and against the closure of the Ford car factory in Genk...
14 November 2012
Greedy capitalists threaten ship
Martin Mayer, Unite Executive Council member for Passenger Transport and chair of the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) Road Transport Section sent the Socialist his report of a dramatic stand-off in Ghana between a US 'vulture fund' and the Argentine government...
14 November 2012
For a European-wide 24-hour general strike
As the Socialist goes to press, workers in Europe are preparing, on 14 November, for a "day of action and protest" against austerity called by the European Trades Union Congress...
14 November 2012
North Wales child abuse scandal
The BBC has become embroiled in a crisis over its coverage of child abuse scandals, but what is becoming forgotten is the issue of child abuse itself, writes Dave Reid, Secretary, Socialist Party Wales.
14 November 2012
Academy teachers strike against pay cuts
The action by members of the NUT and NASUWT teaching unions at Stratford Academy in Newham east London escalated to two strike days last week. There is a three-day strike starting on 13 November, writes Martin Powell-Davies, NUT executive.
14 November 2012
Attacks on BBC reach fever pitch
BBC NUJ strikers, 1.8.11 Sheffield , photo by Andy Kershaw
Any sympathy for George Entwistle following his resignation as BBC director general after just eight weeks in the job was tempered by anger at his £450,000 pay-off and estimated £877,000 pension
14 November 2012
The consequences of the economic crisis for working class people is shown in the daily reality of life, more of us are struggling to make ends meet, writes a Unison member.
14 November 2012
Workers and councillors must make a stand against 300 job cuts in Southampton
Labour-run Southampton council intends to axe at least 300 jobs and to slash services as part of its £20 million budget cuts for 2013
14 November 2012
Rotherham byelection - No more 'MacShames'!
Rotherham TUSC candidate Ralph Dyson, second left, on the Rawmarsh school picket line, photo by Yorkshire Socialist Party
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) supporters in Rotherham have chosen local National Union of Teachers (NUT) rep, Ralph Dyson, to be our TUSC candidate in the forthcoming byelection on 29 November
14 November 2012
Thames water - corruption personified
Will Hutton's forensic exposure of the mendacity, corruption and downright public deception by Thatcher's government of the mythical benefits of privatisation is a model of investigative journalism (Observer 11.11.12), writes Tony Mulhearn
14 November 2012
Greece: Another 48-hour general strike paralyses society
But how can the struggle against austerity be won?: On 6 and 7 November Greek workers participated en masse in a 48-hour general strike against the New Democracy-led coalition of prime minister Antonis Samaras
14 November 2012
USA elections: Voters reject right-wing agenda
US President Barack Obama, photo NASA
Prepare to fight the bipartisan policies of the '1%': Tens of millions of people breathed an enormous sigh of relief upon hearing that Republicans Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan wouldn't be entering the White House
14 November 2012
Why I'm standing for TUSC in Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough's independent mayor Ray Malon recently announced £11 million in savage cuts affecting 111 local services with a further £2.3 million of cuts to be announced in December, writes John Malcolm, Middlesbrough TUSC candidate
14 November 2012
Coventry solidarity protest with action across Europe
Around 50 people attended a protest organised at short notice by Coventry trade unions in solidarity with workers taking action across Europe...
14 November 2012
Make corporate tax dodgers pay up!
Nationalise gas, water and other utility companies: Starbucks, Google, Amazon, Pfizer - the list of corporate tax dodgers grows. Also it has emerged that gas companies have allegedly been fixing the price of wholesale gas
14 November 2012
Anger is growing at plans being revealed for the future of the NHS. The most furious reaction is against cuts and closures in hospital services.
14 November 2012
Student demonstration: Escalate the struggle to fight fees, cuts and privatisation
The government's higher education reforms will "put students at the heart of the system", claimed universities minister David Willetts in 2011. To anyone with half a brain, let alone Willetts' famous 'two', this statement is laughable
14 November 2012
Socialist wins 28% of the vote in Seattle, USA
Kshama Sawant, photo CWI
While the US presidential race was mainly about what to vote against, an inspiring campaign in Seattle's 43rd district for Washington state house offered working class voters a real alternative
15 November 2012
Oxford Street protest against construction blacklisting
As millions of workers took strike action across Europe, there was an impressive protest outside the Crossrail Tottenham Court Road site
15 November 2012
15 November 2012
PCS condemns Gove's 'nightmarish experiment'
Gove's 'nightmarish experiment' plays politics with people's says the PCS union
15 November 2012
First Group bus drivers and engineers staged a 24-hour strike on 15th November protesting about not receiving a backdated pay rise
16 November 2012
16 November 2012
Pro-choice protests continue following Savita death
Following the tragic death in Ireland of Savita Halappanavar after being denied a medically necessary abortion of a miscarrying foetus, protests are continuing worldwide
16 November 2012
14 November: Mass strikes and protests in over 20 countries
On November 14th, millions of workers across Europe went on strike and participated in mass protests in the first internationally-coordinated strike action in Europe against austerity since the economic crisis began
18 November 2012
Protests against strikes on Gaza
As the Israeli army's brutal onslaught on Gaza continued into its fourth day, thousands protested outside the Israeli embassy in London.
19 November 2012
National Shop Stewards Network to lobby next TUC council
The NSSN is organising a lobby of the TUC general council when it meets on Tuesday 11th December, to call for the naming of a date for a 24-hour general strike
19 November 2012
Abortion rights letter being handed to Irish embassy, Wednesday
The following letter, signed by Socialist Party members including several leading trade unionists, will be handed to the Irish embassy in London (17 Grosvenor Place) at 9am Wednesday morning as part of an international day of action for abortion rights in Ireland...
20 November 2012
Crown workers walk out at three sites
Workers at three factories have walked out in immediate and angry response to an attack by Crown on the pension scheme
20 November 2012
November 24: International protests against executions and to support political prisoners in Iran
21 November 2012
London Uni cleaners fight for basic rights
The mainly Latin American cleaners working at the University of London, one of the most prestigious universities in the world, have launched the 'three cosas' campaign over sick pay, pensions and holidays...
21 November 2012
Tragic death of Savita Halappanavar
Action needed to allow access to abortion in Ireland: On Sunday 28 October Savita Halappanavar, a 31 year old woman from India, died in Galway University Hospital in Ireland, writes Rita Harrold, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) and pro-choice activist.
21 November 2012
Europe: 14 November shows workers' potential power to defeat austerity
On 14 November (N14), millions of workers across Europe went on strike and participated in mass protests against austerity...
21 November 2012
Tube strike: RMT members working for Tubelines on London Underground are due to strike on 23 November. This is over pensions and travel facilities...
21 November 2012
NHS: Condition critical. Prescription: mass action to end all cuts and privatisation
Admin staff strike, Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust, 1st November 2012 , photo by Iain Dalton
Every area of the National Health Service faces crisis as the government financial squeeze threatens thousands of job losses and closures of hospital departments...
21 November 2012
Hull workers reject 'austerity lite'
0n 15 November angry and determined workers lobbied Hull city council to demand that Labour councillors keep their election promises
21 November 2012
Suffering unworkable benefit assessments
Mandi, from Lewisham in south east London, is in constant pain and has been unable to work for seven years
21 November 2012
Building working-class political representation
With a £5,000 deposit required to get on to the ballot paper - but with no candidates' freepost mailshot available - TUSC did not field any candidates in the Police Commissioner elections held on 15 November, dubbed by the media as Britain's 'super Thursday'
21 November 2012
PCC elections: The average turnout in the police commissioner elections was 15%. The previous record low was 24% in the 1999 European elections.
21 November 2012
Middlesbrough byelection TUSC candidate John Malcolm says: "As an NHS community nurse I see first-hand the devastation brought about by the Con-Dem government's policy of cuts and privatisation within all public services but particularly in the NHS...
21 November 2012
Mid Yorkshire: Three-day NHS strike
Three-day strike of Mid Yorkshire Unison NHS staff against pay cuts and mass downgrading, photo Iain Dalton
Over 350 workers in the Mid Yorkshire NHS are facing pay cuts in a mass downbanding exercise. After a one-day strike on 1 November Unison members started a three-day strike on 20 November.
21 November 2012
Southampton youth workers and their supporters fight to save youth services from extinction
Southampton youth workers and their supporters fight to save youth services from extinction , photo by Socialist Party
21 November 2012
PCS members on strike 10 May 2012 outside Parliament, photo Paul Mattsson
Lobby the TUC to demand date for 24-hour general strike: Corporate tax dodging... pampered MPs scamming expenses... fat cat privatisers creaming a profit out of our NHS, public services and utilities... the 1% elite load up the lolly and laugh all the way to the bank
21 November 2012
Stop Israeli state terror! No more slaughter in Gaza
Men, women and children from one end of the Gaza strip to the other have been subjected to abject terror as bombs hit this narrow piece of land from the air and sea
21 November 2012
Historic victory for witch-hunted Unison four
Onay Kasab and Glenn Kelly
The white flag of surrender is currently flying over Unison HQ. For five and half years the union bureaucracy have sought to justify and defend the witch-hunt against four Unison activists and Socialists
21 November 2012
Rotherham TUSC election challenge - No snouts in the trough!
After Rotherham MP, Dennis 'MacShame' was caught with his fingers in the till, a byelection has been called for 29 November
21 November 2012
Waltham Forest: spread the strikes to stop the rot
In Waltham Forest, east London, one secondary school, Connaught School for Girls, is putting up one hell of a fight against academisation
21 November 2012
Stratford: parents support teachers' action
"I don't know what democracy is", was the flippant reply by a deputy head at Stratford Academy when parent Niall Mulholland asked why senior management had refused to meet parents
21 November 2012
Southampton: Labour's 'fair' council announces £25 million cuts, but workers want action
Southampton's Labour council has announced a record cuts budget for next year
21 November 2012
Video: Socialist Students on the NUS 'Demo 2012'
Socialist Students joined the NUS demo on 21 November in London, calling for an end to tuition fees, and grants, not loans.
24 November 2012
Demonstrations: End the seige of Gaza!
Over 10,000 people marched in London to condemn the Israeli bombardment of Gaza.
26 November 2012
Rotherham: Standing against cuts, corruption and racism
Last week, multinational steel firm Tata announced that another 110 jobs would be lost at the Thryberg Bar Mill in Rotherham
27 November 2012
Video of Unison Defend the Four campaign
Four Unison members, all members of the Socialist Party, recently made legal history in defending the right of union members to defend themselves from being attacked by union bureaucracies seeking to silence them...
27 November 2012
Workfare is preventing people finding jobs
The government's outsourced back-to-work scheme for the long-term unemployed is not only not working, it is holding back jobseekers, the PCS union points out in a press release in response to figures released today (27th November)...
27 November 2012
28 November 2012
Fund the fightback: join the Christmas Collectathon
Socialist Party members are launching a 'collectathon' fundraising fortnight from 1 to 15 December, writes Ken Douglas, Socialist Party national treasurer.
28 November 2012
Tata has given over 500 workers at its Margam plant in south Wales the most unwanted Christmas message they could ever have received: "You are being sacked with virtually no chance of getting another job"...
28 November 2012
Cleaners' campaign: Rail union RMT has announced strikes by train cleaners around 30 November and 1-2 December. The different disputes are all about fighting low pay and poor working conditions that these workers suffer...
28 November 2012
Egypt: Mursi power grab provokes mass protests
Build a united front of workers and poor for 'second revolution': The declaration of sweeping new political powers by Egypt's president Mursi has provoked a violent backlash, leaving two dead and hundreds injured, and further polarised society along pro- and anti-Mursi lines...
28 November 2012
Don't fall for Labour's fairy tale
In the Observer on 25 November, columnist Nick Cohen wrote an article praising Labour councillors for, he says, 'dealing with austerity', ie Con-Dem cuts, while attacking as "ultra-leftism" any strategy to fight the cuts...
28 November 2012
Sorry to Bother You by the Coup
Ian Slattery reviews the Coup's sixth album, Sorry to Bother You...
28 November 2012
Housing for the Counihans, housing for all
No cuts in Brent, no cuts at all!: Some 50,000 families are currently accepted as homeless, a number which has risen by almost 50% in the past year...
28 November 2012
Home is where the cash is: "South Shields comes first," claimed David Miliband, giving a commitment to his constituency after losing to his brother Ed in the 2010 New Labour leadership election...
28 November 2012
School students hungry for answers
Newstead Woods school 'Question Time' finished with six students applying to join the Socialist Party, writes Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Students national organiser.
28 November 2012
Answering the lies of the Con-Dems
On 5 December Tory axe-man Chancellor George Osborne will stand at the dispatch box in parliament and read out a long list of more pain-promising austerity measures...
28 November 2012
John Malcolm is standing for TUSC in the Middlesbrough constituency byelection on 29 November. Here is an extract from his election leaflet
28 November 2012
The battle against pay cuts continues in Mid Yorks hospitals
Three-day strike of Mid Yorkshire Unison NHS staff against pay cuts and mass downgrading, photo Iain Dalton
Admin and clerical Unison and Unite members at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust ended their three-day strike action on 22 November - with a firm resolve to fight on
28 November 2012
I work as a support worker in health. Many years ago I was transferred over from the NHS to a trust which is a charity. In October 2011 the trust started to attack the workforce.
28 November 2012
Gove's 'overspend' - on academies!
Haringey protest against academy school, photo by Paul Mattsson
Are you a teacher whose school is short of cash? Have you been warned of 'hard times ahead' and possible redundancies?
28 November 2012
Student demo - potential for mass movement
Students on the NUS national demonstration 12 November against the government attacks on university education, photo Paul Mattsson
Anger at NUS failings: Sheffield student union was the first in Britain to organise a campus-wide anti-cuts campaign in response to the call for a national demonstration in November
28 November 2012
Christmas books from Socialist Books
We have many books which would make good presents for your family and friends - both political and less political - and we have selected just a few here
28 November 2012
Protest against the Israeli government's attacks on Gaza 24 November 2012, photo Paul Mattsson
Over 10,000 people demonstrated and marched in London on Saturday 24 November to condemn the Israeli bombardment of Gaza...
28 November 2012
Stratford Academy: Parents and teachers united against bullying management
After striking for nine days over three weeks, Stratford Academy teachers suspended their action. NB: Press release appended on 29.11.12
28 November 2012
Autumn budget: more cuts, more misery - more reasons for a 24-hour general strike!
Pic: Paul Mattsson
Do the Tories suspect they won't be re-elected? Their plans have failed, writes Nancy Taaffe
28 November 2012
Veolia bosses are urged to 'get back around the table' or risk rubbish piling up on the streets of Bromley in London this Christmas, after binmen vote overwhelmingly for strike action
28 November 2012
MPs' expenses, bankers' bonuses, corporate tax dodgers; this deep, long-term crisis of capitalism has brought with it a thorough-going crisis of legitimacy in capitalist institutions
28 November 2012
On Saturday, defying cold, driving rain, up to 10,000 residents and staff marched to defend their local hospital. A south London nurse reports
28 November 2012
Flooding tragedies - Socialist action needed to tackle climate change
While some of the worst storms and flooding in recent memory hit parts of Britain, UK climate change secretary Ed Davey was in Doha for the latest in the series of toothless United Nations Climate Change conferences
29 November 2012
Coventry Labour council plans destruction of 600 more jobs
Workers at Coventry council have been hit by a sledgehammer blow with news that an extra 600 jobs are going
30 November 2012
There were some hardy PCS pickets out at Swansea's DVLA this morning, in sub-zero temperatures. They are striking against cuts, privatisation and the destruction of services.
30 November 2012
Major turnout for PCS demos in Plymouth
Friday 30th November has seen an overwhelming response from PCS members, who aren't prepared to accept attacks on terms & conditions and union allocation time
30 November 2012
Train cleaners protest across the country
Low-paid train cleaners took strike action today in their fight for better pay
30 November 2012
Leveson whitewashes press, police and political establishment
20 October 2012 TUC demo against austerity, photo Paul Mattsson
Lord Justice Leveson's report, presented on 29 November, castigated the activities of the press in the past period but, like most judicial inquiries, brushed over the failure and corruption of important elements of the capitalist establishment
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