Pavilion – the new slum landlords
It used to be the private landlords that were the Rachman landlords, the ones the tenants feared, now it is housing associations who are managing the slum estates.
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Reminder: Blood Service Demo on Friday
Demonstration! Watford, Friday 11th AprilSTOP SLASHING THE BLOOD SERVICE!
Protest at the NBS bosses' HQ
Assembly point: Watford Junction Station
Friday 11th April 2008, 12pm
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The Fight for Justice for Simon Jones - Ten Years On, The Lessons Learnt
A public meeting on the tenth anniversary of the death of Simon Jones, killed on his first day as a casual worker in a Shoreham dock.[Full Story | 1 comment ]
URGENT: Free Mumia now! All out for 19 April united-front demonstration!
Free Mumia now! Mumia Abu-Jamal
is innocent!
Abolish the racist
death penalty!
Saturday 19 April
1pm, US Embassy,
Grosvenor Square, London W1A
(Nearest Tube: Bond Street)
See attached PDF leaflet, contact the PDC for more information and to help build the demonstration, to speak and to endorse the protest. 020 7281 5504
partisandefence@yahoo.co.uk www.partisandefense.org
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Instant Muscle 'workfare' Job Centre contractor goes bust
Training provider Instant Muscle went into administration last week, leaving staff unpaid for February and unemployed trainees turned away from the doorsteps of their training centres. Staff were given termination letters as they arrived at work on the 27th.
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Get Active!
In no way will we be able to break the hold of corporations until we all ALL growing food and performing useful trades.[Full Story | 10 comments ]
Supersize My Pay: activists from France and New Zealand speak in London tomorrow
Mike Treen from New Zealand's Unite union, which organised the first Starbucks strike in the world, and French fast food worker and union activist Axel Perrson will speak in London tomorrow.[Full Story ]
Victory for Brighton bin wildcat
After two days on wildcat strike, refuse workers at Brighton's Hollingdean Depot have won their fight against management bullying.[Full Story | 2 comments ]
Brighton refuse workers on wildcat strike
200 refuse and recycling workers from Brighton and Hove City Council walked out today over management bullying.
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Oppose The Police Federation - Weds 23rd January
Details of the opposition being planned to the cheekiest march of all time.[Full Story | 11 comments ]
New Deal boot camps
An in-depth undercover investigation into New Deal boot camps.[Full Story | 11 comments ]
Beating exploitation: No Sweat conference, Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 December
The seventh annual No Sweat conference takes place this weekend in London.[Full Story ]
Ken Loach & NoBorders in Crawley Tuesday 27th November
On Tuesday 27th November, renowned filmmaker Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Sweet Sixteen, Kes) is coming to Crawley to show and talk about his new film "It's a Free World...". This film is a drama about a single mother and depicts the reality of living and working in the UK as a so-called illegal immigrant. [Full Story | 1 comment ]
Eyewitness report: French students occupy as workers clash with government
See the link for an eyewitness report of the ongoing French student and worker actions, from an Education Not for Sale supporter in Paris.[Full Story ]
A Sussex police chief gets some worrying instant karma
A Sussex policeman has been discharged from hospital after an attack by about 50 cows left him with four broken ribs and a punctured lung.[Full Story | 2 comments ]
Sussex students pass motion in support of posties
The University of Sussex Students' Union just passed a motion of support for the strike, with reference to scab student labour in Liverpool, and with the intention of increasing student awareness about union organising. A letter is also being written to be sent to the Liverpool students' unions informing them about this and asking them to take some sort of action.[Full Story ]
Agenda for Feminist Fightback conference, 20 October
The second socialist feminist Feminist Fightback conference takes place at the University of East London on Saturday 20 October.[Full Story | 9 comments ]
Housmans Bookfair Weekender
Details of pre bookfair and post bookfair events at Housmans during a long weekend of literature related anarchist activities. Including, the launch on Friday evening of an independent new magazine, "MAYDAY", which aims to help the movement forward towards new glories. Important and well known anarchist figures from the movements recent past, contribute articles and will be in attendance. Bring a bottle and celebrate champagne anarchism:)[Full Story | 5 comments ]
More details: Feminist Fightback conference, 20 October 2007
More details of the second Feminist Fightback conference, which takes place at the University of East London on Saturday 20 October 2007.[Full Story | 1 comment ]
Two fatal accidents at construction sites this weekend
A 20-year-old man has been killed on a construction site on Plymouth, just one day after a similar accident took the life of an 18-year-old in Scotland.[Full Story ]