Liverpool Social Struggles Newswire Archive

28-05-2007 16:17 | 1 comment

Belfast 1907 General Strike Commemoration in Liverpool

100th Anniversary Commemoration
Saturday June 2nd 2007, Liverpool

Assemble 12.30pm Combermere Street, off Park Road, Liverpool 8.
March to City Centre. March led by James Larkin RFB.
Afternoon function in the Casa Bar, Hope Street Read more >>

26-05-2007 22:41

The Iron Wall with Atef Masad

Screening of The Iron Wall and a talk/discussion with Atef Masad on his recent trip to Gaza
8pm Thursday June 7th
Gregson Community Centre, Moor Lane, Lancaster Read more >>

14-05-2007 19:35 | 13 comments

Statement from BNP leadership challenger and supporters

Chris Jackson sets out his stall Read more >>

12-05-2007 10:53 | 6 comments

Peel Holdings Vs Democracy

Peel Holdings, owners of Mersey Docks reveal their anti-democratic and secretive ways. Read more >>

04-05-2007 16:46

Mayday 08

A small subversion of the Liverpool 08 trademark Read more >>

02-05-2007 19:43 | 3 comments

Time to plan for Mayday 2008 in Liverpool, UK.

This is a call out to anarchists, and fellow travellers, nationwide and internationally.

2008 is the year Liverpool welcomes people worldwide to our city for The European City Of Culture 'celebrations'. That means you! Read more >>

02-05-2007 14:52 | 5 comments

'Liverpool Care Slaves' Face Pay Cut

I am a care worker in Liverpool.
I work hard looking after the elderly people I care for. We all do.
The council are going to cut my wages by almost 30% in July for me to do the same job as I am doing now. Read more >>

01-05-2007 22:21

Preston Council's Crazy Plans To Barrage Ribble: One Step Closer to The Brink

The Riverworks Barrage across the River Ribble is one step closer to reality today after Preston City Council decided, against the advice of local people and environmentalists, to apply to the North West Development Agency for funds for a feasibility study into their plans to build a barrage across the Ribble and 4000 homes and businesses in it's floodplain - plans that would threaten the precious environment of the Ribble Estuary and raise the flood risk to local residents. Read more >>

01-05-2007 19:22 | 1 comment

May Day Picket of Liverpool Army Recruitment

After turning away from the lure of warm beer and a cover of John Lennon's Imagine at the official Merseyside TUC rally, ten activists from the Liverpool Social Forum picketed the Army recruitment office on James Street, to try and stop young scousers fighting and possibly dying for oil in the Middle East. Read more >>

01-05-2007 17:35 | 1 addition | 5 comments

Low-Key May Day March and Rally in Liverpool

About eight hundred people - including many from the striking Public and Commercial Services union - marched through Liverpool city centre this afternoon, in an event organised by Merseyside TUC. Read more >>

27-04-2007 15:43

!!!Direct Action Training Day In Manchester!!!

!!!DIRECT ACTION TRAINING DAY!!!
Date: Sunday, May 6, 2007
Time: 10:00am (breakfast), 11.00am - 6:00pm (workshops)
Location: The Basement (just off piccadilly gardens, 3 mins walk from the bus stop!) On Lever Street (next to/ parralel to oldham street)
Read more >>

26-04-2007 19:08

Celebrate Mayday! Raise Money For Iraqi Workers! See Bands! In Liverpool!

Liverpool Social Forum presents: Mayday '07 - the last non-commercialised festival! Read more >>

24-04-2007 16:43 | 3 comments

One Third Of New Liverpool City Centre Flats Going To Waste!

A piece in today's Liverpool Daily Post revealed that a staggering 35% of the newly-built apartments in Liverpool city centre are lying empty! Read more >>

21-04-2007 18:59 | 1 comment

Merseyside May Day March and Rally

Save our public services!

Say no to racism! Read more >>

19-04-2007 21:33 | 1 comment

gathering anticivilization 2007

After the success of the last gathering in Tavertet, we are calling for a new one this year. It will take place the 8, 9, 10 and 11 of September. Read more >>

17-04-2007 11:48

Regeneration and the privatisation of public land and council housing in Britain

As a part of encouraging solidarity and links between different campaigns for common struggle against capitalism in Britain and Latin America, we are having a screening on gentrification in Britain followed by a discussion.

This Thursday 19 of April at 8pm

Read more >>

06-04-2007 18:20

Demolition Derby

Sham consultations, compulsory purchases, mass demolitions and the displacement of entire communities. Call this a housing policy? A look at the government's Pathfinder initiative.
First published in Red Pepper April 2007.
Read more >>

06-04-2007 18:10 | 2 comments

Toxteth people fear "legalised theft" of homes

Residents of the Granby Triangle fear they will be forced to sell up to Lovell - the council's chosen developer for £27m urban renewal scheme - whether their homes are down for demolition or not. First published in the Big Issue (1/4/07) Read more >>

03-04-2007 13:03 | 2 comments

Demonstrate outside Home Office, Liverpool, 4 April, 2pm.

Protest outside racist Home Office. Stop 'failing asylum seekers! Read more >>

03-04-2007 11:05 | 9 comments

A Change is Gonna Come

Here follows a summary of the way out. Read more >>