Around 150 people came to an Education Question Time in south London on Wednesday of last week.
UCU MEMBERS at the University of Central Lancashire were set to strike for 48 hours, starting on Thursday of this week to save jobs.
The arrival of Russian troops on the streets of Crimea is producing an ever?escalating war of words from global political leaders.
Over 100 striking care workers joined a noisy rally in the centre of Doncaster today, Saturday. The Unison union members are in the middle of a seven-day strike.
A national demonstration has been called in Birmingham for Saturday to protest at the arrest of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg on suspicion of terrorism.
The festival returns for its fourth year with a packed programme of classic and contemporary political film. Highlights include an evening with Iranian filmmaker Mania Akbari and a Q&A with the director of The Happy Lands. There’s also rare film from the Spanish Civil War, live scores to silent Soviet classics, video-activist workshops and much more.
Activists in south London have organised an “Education Question Time” to discuss how to defend education.
Benefit campaigners, trade unionists and others were set to lobby Southwark council in south London against cuts on Wednesday of this week.
More than 2,000 Unite union members at around 50 box manufacturing sites are being balloted for strikes over pay. The Confederation of Paper Industries offered a 2013 pay rise of 2.9 percent. It represents big, profitable corrugated packaging firms including SAICA Pack UK Smurfit Kappa and DS Smith. The ballot closes on 11 March.
Twelve assembly line workers struck for better pay at the Daiwa Sports fishing rod factory in Lanarkshire on Monday and Tuesday of this week. The workers—all women—are members of the Unite union. They are currently paid just £6.72 an hour, and rejected a below-inflation raise of 1.5 percent.
Anti-water cannon campaigners met in London on Monday of this week to voice their objection to police using water cannons. The meeting, organised by Defend the Right to Protest, was addressed by lawyer Matt Foot as well as protesters from Northern Ireland.
Movement Against Xenophobia is set to host a conference to resist the Tory attacks on migrants. Speakers include Jeremy Corbyn MP. Day tickets £10 (£20 solidarity price, £2 for low waged/unwaged). Saturday 15 March, 10am, SOAS Vernon Square Campus, Penton Rise, London WC1X 9EW.
