Marches show mood to stop Tories
The TUC demonstration in London last Saturday showed that workers want to fight. Many teachers support the idea of more strikes.
Hospital workers plan to fight proposals to close departments and privatise services after an NHS trust in south east London was forced into administration.
Around 1,000 anti-racists gathered in Walthamstow, north east London, last Saturday and celebrated a resounding victory over the fascist English Defence League (EDL).
The 20 October demonstrations against Tory cuts brought almost a quarter of a million onto the streets of London and Glasgow. They showed the continuing force of the anti-austerity movement. However they have left many asking where we go from here—and how we get there.
Cleaners on London Midland trains from Bletchley and Northampton depots, East Coast mainline, First Transpennine Express and Tyne and Wear Metro were set to strike Friday and Saturday of this week against poverty pay.
Shouts of "no justice, no peace" filled Whitehall in central London this afternoon (Saturday) as the annual Families and Friends march against deaths in police custody marched on Downing Street.
Around 1,000 anti-racists gathered in Walthamstow, north east London, today (Saturday) to celebrate a resounding victory over the fascist English Defence League (EDL).
Pay threat at Stratford Academy
All teachers at Stratford Academy in east London were set to strike on Thursday of this week. Their head teacher is threatening to cut teachers’ pay if they take part in action short of a strike.
The 200,000 people who marched in London last Saturday, and the thousands who demonstrated on the same day in Glasgow, are proof of the potential to defeat the Tories.
