The No Place in Burnley for the BNP campaign was launched at a press conference last week in the run-up to the council by-elections set to take place on Thursday 22 November. A representative from Burnley Football Club signed up to the statement, as well as local trade unionists, Labour and Liberal Democrat councillors, clergy, residents, and a visitor to Burnley who was a refugee from Nazi Germany.
Over 2,500 people marched in Leicester in a local demonstration against the war last weekend. Peace groups, trade unionists, Muslim organisations, socialists and others united in one of the biggest demonstrations in Leicester for years.
"We've beaten the bosses twice!" That was the reaction of medical secretaries in Glasgow this week as their indefinite strike action forced management to back down for the second time. The 300 medical secretaries, all low paid women workers, have shown how determined and all-out action can win. Last month, after just two days of indefinite strike action, the workers had appeared to win a victory when bosses struck a deal that conceded to their demands to be put on a higher grade.
Over 1,000 people attended a marvellous meeting in east London last week to celebrate the fifth anniversary of The East London Communities Organisation (TELCO). TELCO is a coalition of faith, school and community organisations as well as trade union branches, working together for social justice. The meeting, entitled "Solidarity in action", was packed with a range of strikingly diverse people.
Community psychiatric nurses in Manchester are furious to hear that they are to be downgraded.
Over 400 people turned out for three and a half hours of debate, discussion and videos last week around the theme of "The case against the WTO", organised by Globalise Resistance.
Stagecoach bus workers in the north east of England held another one-day strike on Monday of this week to force the company to increase their pay. The workers in Teesside, Hartlepool and Darlington are due to be joined by fellow workers in the AEEU union who maintain the buses.
Council tenants on the Langley estate in Middleton, Rochdale, are fighting against the transfer of their homes to fat cat landlords. Langley is a Manchester City Council overspill estate. The council is trying to con tenants to vote in the ballot to transfer to a housing association.
Workers at British Energy are scheduled to take strike action on Monday 19 November, after voting overwhelmingly for action over pay. If the strike action goes ahead, it will hit Britain's biggest nuclear power producer.
