London Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

29-05-2008 13:37

Gentrification and resistance, from NY to London

A report about a London meeting featuring Juan Haro, an activist from the Movement for Justice in El Barrio, a movement fighting displacement of poor residents by housing corporations in East Harlem, New York Read more >>

27-05-2008 11:15

UNISON Public Meeting, 11th June: Save our services in Lambeth!

Speakers include:
Mark Serwotka – General Secretary, PCS
Alan Walter – Secretary, Defend Council Housing
Heenal Rajani – Lambeth UNISON
Barbara Glosby – Lambeth Pensioners Association
Read more >>

16-05-2008 22:52

Justice for cleaners demonstrate against AON

Justice for Cleaners have organised a week of actions against companies in London who employ contract cleaners who pay their workers less than a living wage. Pictures and text from demonstration at Devonshire Square, London EC2 on Thursday 15 May, 2008. Pictures copyright (C) 2008, Peter Marshall Read more >>

16-05-2008 17:56

Alienated at work? Don't sell yourself.

Legislation since the 1990s has introduced a focus on mass education , performativity and marketisation in British Higher Education alienating the workers at the base in the universities. Read more >>

13-05-2008 08:40

Justice for Cleaners week of action starts.

Yesterday Justice for Cleaners started a week of action in the city of London. All this week they will be making a truly horrendous racket outside various corporations who should know better than to exploit vulnerable immigrants. If you feel like heading to the financial capital of Europe to let off some steam then they would love to see you.

Below is their press release and schedule. Read more >>

07-05-2008 14:31

Victory Against Trade Union Repression In Lambeth

Lambeth Council has been forced to back down from their plan to ban the Trade Union UNISON from their staff conference for workers in the Regeneration and Housing department, which takes place on 6 and 8 May 2008 at the Oval Conference Centre. Read more >>

03-05-2008 11:46 | 3 additions

Boris - A Taste of Things to Come

Class war is well and truly back on the streets of London after the Home Counties elected bumbling toff Boris Johnson to become Mayor.

Demonstrators outside city hall were met with TSG and FIT Teams who took it upon themselves to protect the BNP and force legal protest off the streets. Read more >>

03-05-2008 09:51

CERN Bomb

If "God" doesnt play poker or dice, he hates russian roulette,
CERN is clever dumb, a suicidal experimental oxymoron,
IS the quest for knowledge worth threatening our entire life system,
Will bureacrats in Brussels& NewYork pull their heads from their jackseyes? Read more >>

30-04-2008 15:05

Mayday Meeting Point - 1708 revisited

Come and join us for a celebration and re-enactment of the state's oppression of the traditional May Fayre in Mayfair. A collaboration between Space Hijackers and The Metropolitan Police Players....

Read more >>

30-04-2008 12:23

Lambeth Council bans Trade Union from Staff Conference

Lambeth’s Labour-led Council has sunk to new depths by refusing the trade union UNISON, which represents more than 2,000 council staff, a stall at its conference for staff in the Regeneration and Housing Department on 6th and 8th May 2008. Read more >>

28-04-2008 16:06

Lambeth UNISON Public Meeting - Privatisation of council services: the true cost

*6.30pm to 8.30pm
*Thursday 8th May
*Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton

Speakers include:

John McDonnell MP – Chair of the Socialist Campaign Group
Ted Knight – ex-Leader of Lambeth Council
Derek Wall – Male Principal Speaker of the Green Party
Sarah Tomlinson – Branch Secretary of Lambeth NUT
Jean Kerrigan – ex-Chair of Tenants’ Council Read more >>

25-04-2008 09:46

London BPP Fash get slapped!

Militant Anti-fascists turned over the BPP Victoria meeting. According to the BPP report on Stormfront, 'a couple of people got a good kicking, but the most serious injuries were a broken ankle and a comrade who was taken to hospital after being kicked unconcious'. The message is clear: No Platform, No Pasaran! Read more >>

19-04-2008 08:22

Free Mumia now! All out today at 1pm, US Embassy, London!

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)

Contact the Partisan Defence Committee on 020 7281 5504 or at

partisandefence@yahoo.co.uk. Visit www.partisandefense.org for details of international protests taking place today and in the coming week and for a list of the organisations and individuals, representing thousands upon thousands of trade unionists and anti-racists, who have endorsed the international mobilisations. Read more >>

17-04-2008 20:17

Free Mumia now! All out this Saturday!

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)

The latest PDF leaflet with new endorsers is attached; contact the PDC for more information and to help build the demonstration, speak and to endorse the protest. 020 7281 5504

partisandefence@yahoo.co.uk www.partisandefense.org Read more >>

15-04-2008 10:35 | 1 addition

Privatisation of Council Services: The True Costs - Meeting in Brixton, 8th May

Speakers include:
John McDonnell MP – Chair of the Socialist Campaign Group
Ted Knight – ex-Leader of Lambeth Council
Derek Wall – Male Principal Speaker, Green Party
Rahul Patel – ex-Branch Secretary of Westminster UNISON
Jean Kerrigan – ex-Chair of Tenants’ Council
Read more >>

14-04-2008 16:24

Urgent: demonstrate for Mumia Abu-Jamal, this Saturday 19 April: Free Mumia now!

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 (includes international leaflet, full list of endorsers and further information about Mumia Abu-Jamal) Read more >>

11-04-2008 00:35

All out on 19 April! Free Mumia now! (Includes new leaflet and endorsers)

partisandefence@yahoo.co.uk www.partisandefense.org Read more >>

09-04-2008 12:23

Reminder: Blood Service Demo on Friday

Demonstration! Watford, Friday 11th April

STOP SLASHING THE BLOOD SERVICE!

Protest at the NBS bosses' HQ

Assembly point: Watford Junction Station
Friday 11th April 2008, 12pm Read more >>

09-04-2008 00:25 | 1 addition

All out on 19 April! Free Mumia now!

partisandefence@yahoo.co.uk www.partisandefense.org Read more >>

07-04-2008 19:26

URGENT: Free Mumia now! All out for 19 April united-front demonstration!

partisandefence@yahoo.co.uk www.partisandefense.org Read more >>

London Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

29-05-2008 13:37

27-05-2008 11:15

16-05-2008 22:52

16-05-2008 17:56

13-05-2008 08:40

07-05-2008 14:31

03-05-2008 11:46 | 3 additions

03-05-2008 09:51

30-04-2008 15:05

30-04-2008 12:23

28-04-2008 16:06

25-04-2008 09:46

19-04-2008 08:22

17-04-2008 20:17

15-04-2008 10:35 | 1 addition

14-04-2008 16:24

11-04-2008 00:35

09-04-2008 12:23

09-04-2008 00:25 | 1 addition

07-04-2008 19:26

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