Liverpool Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

05-03-2008 17:46

Vauxhall Staff Wildcat In Ellesmere Port...Again!

Around five hundred staff at the Vauxhall plant in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, are reported to have walked out yesterday, over rumours that the company plan to axe 460 jobs. Read more >>

01-03-2008 19:14

Unions prepare to sell out jobs fight at Rolls-Royce

At the beginning of this year, aircraft engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce announced plans to axe 2,300 highly skilled jobs, about 6 percent of its 39,500 global workforce. The company is the world’s second largest manufacturer of jet engines after the American giant General Electric, with a 36 percent share of the market. Most of the job losses are expected to hit the company’s 23,000-strong UK workforce and affect white-collar workers based at its main site in Derby. Read more >>

24-02-2008 17:14

Hands Off Iraqi Oil - Liverpool Picket

Activists from the Liverpool Social Forum picketed the Shell garage on Aigburth Road yesterday, as part of Hands Off Iraqi Oil's day of action. Read more >>

19-02-2008 18:22 | 9 comments

Che Guevara’s deputy speaks in Liverpool and Manchester

This Saturday, Liverpool will host a meeting at which Che Guevara’s closest comrade from Cuba, Orlando Borrego, will speak. On Sunday it will be Manchester’s turn. The events are part of a speaking tour of Britain organised by the campaign group Rock Around the Blockade. The tour comes at a crucial time for Cuban socialism as the people give their decisive and defiant answer to the oft-asked question ‘what happens when Fidel goes?’ Read more >>

18-02-2008 11:13 | 1 addition | 4 comments

Cuban speaking tour this week!

From Saturday 23rd February three Cuban revolutionaries will begin the North West leg of a national speaking tour of Britain entitled 'Cuba: socialism into the 21st century', organised by Rock around the Blockade. Read more >>

26-01-2008 17:33 | 2 comments

Liverpool Blood Service 'At Threat' From Own Workers!

'City Blood Service Is At Threat', screams today's grammatically suspect Liverpool Echo headline. But just who is threatening the service? Apparently it's people who work there! Read more >>

20-01-2008 06:44

Oi Imperialists! Hands Off Iraqi Oil!

"I'm saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: The Iraq war is largely about oil." – Alan Greenspan Read more >>

18-01-2008 11:49 | 6 comments

Cubans are coming to Manchester!

On 24th February 3 Cuban revolutionaries will be arriving in Manchester for the local leg of a national speaking tour in Britain. They are: Orlando Borrego - Che Guevara's deputy and closest collaborator from 1959-65; Jesus Garcia - People's Power assembly delegate and philosopher; and Yoselin Rufin Diaz - a young woman student leader. This speaking tour is a once in a lifetime opportunity to hear about the Cuban revolution from people who are part of it! Read more >>

11-01-2008 00:05

Resisting the Corporate Theft of Iraqi Oil

PUBLIC MEETING

Resisting the Corporate Theft of Iraqi Oil

Ewa Jasiewicz and Greg Muttitt, PLATFORM

Next to Nowhere (next to News from Nowhere bookshop), 96 Bold St.

18th January 2008 - 7.30pm Read more >>

12-12-2007 17:32

New Anarchist Newssheet Hits Merseyside Streets!

A group of Merseyside anarchists have produced the first edition of our new newssheet, 'Shout!'. There are articles on Capital of Culture (or capitalist vultures), academy schools, the postal strike, the plans for the new Royal hospital, where our recycling REALLY goes, and asylum seeker support. Click on the PDF if you want to read and distribute, or simply scroll down for the text version. Read more >>

11-12-2007 18:00

Merseyside Resistance Calendar 2008

NERVE MAGAZINE promoting grassroots arts and culture on Merseyside 85 - 89 Duke Street, Liverpool L1 5AP Tel. 0151-709 9948 mail@catalystmedia.org.uk, website www.catalystmedia.org.uk Read more >>

10-12-2007 05:52

IWW commence build-up to major assault on NBS bosses

With new phase of IWW campaign against 600 job cuts, the wobblies launch massive recruitment drive. The centre in Liverpool is scheduled for closure by NBS bosses. The IWW is going to stop them. Read more >>

07-12-2007 17:51

The Corporate Takeover Of Iraqi Oil

University of Liverpool School of Sociology & Social Policy Research Seminar Series 2007/08

Greg Muttitt and Ewa Jasiewicz PLATFORM

The Corporate Take-Over of Iraqi Oil

13th December 2007

Hearnshaw Lecture Theatre, Eleanor Rathbone Building, University of Liverpool
5.30pm Read more >>

07-12-2007 11:58

IWW Launches Second Phase of National Campaign

IWW launches second phase of fight against blood service centralisation plans. Read more >>

06-12-2007 05:37 | 8 comments

Belarusian Anarchists Visit Liverpool

Two Belarusian comrades visited Next To Nowhere last night, to show an Indymedia video of the mass protests in Minsk last year, and to discuss how west European activism compares to that of the former eastern bloc. Read more >>

05-12-2007 05:21 | 2 comments

The postal workers dispute and the role of “left” groups in the CWU

A ballot of postal workers over the deal negotiated between Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Royal Mail recorded a 64 percent acceptance on a 64 percent turnout. Read more >>

27-11-2007 17:06 | 1 comment

41% of Posties Accept Stitch-Up Deal/Motion Carried

64% of those postal workers who voted have accepted the stitch-up 'settlement' offer from Royal Mail bosses. However, there was only a 64% turnout. So after weeks of strike action, lost pay and backstabbing from Communication Workers Union bureaucrats, the original contract proposed by Royal Mail will go through practically unaltered, despite the fact that 59% of posties still refuse to back it. Read more >>

20-11-2007 18:08

France: The workers must take the struggle into their own hands!

Seldom has trade-union unity been so great in the country: almost all the trade unions, including the most collaborationist, call for an indefinite strike at the SNCF, because of the determination and combativeness of the workers!
But what objective does this united leadership set for the struggle to come? In 1995 the objective was clear: total withdrawal of the Prime Minister Juppé plan against the pensions. Today what is the objective of this trade-union unity?
Total withdrawal of the new attack against the pensions?
Read more >>

14-11-2007 03:26

Buses To Karen Reissman Demo In Manchester

Merseyside TUC has booked a double decker bus which holds 77 people
for the above demo. Tickets are only £1 return from Lime Street to
St Peters Square Manchester. (Leaving from the Empire Theatre Lime
Street at 11.30.a.m. and leaving Manchester at 4.30.p.m. Read more >>

11-11-2007 23:51 | 1 comment

Liverpool airport workers vote for strike

Liverpool John Lennon Airport workers have voted overwhelmingly to strike after refusing a pay offer. Read more >>