Dr Louise Irvine talks to the BBC about #DevoManc NHA – South West Surrey Group Posted on February 25, 2015 by swsurreynha £6bn a year of health spending is to be handed to Greater Manchester. It is…Read more…
Barnet UNISON AGM 4 MARCH
Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus LinkedIn
Read more…
UNISON National Community Seminar 2015: Day 2
Day 2 of the national seminar started off with more workshops and reporting back. Then after morning break the plenary session with West Midlands Regional Head of Community Andrew Johnson explaining in a lucid and comprehensive way the new Government r…Read more…
Buckhurst field and the New College Corporation
New College is shortly to put in an application for an all-weather football pitch on Council owned Buckhurst field1 which sits on the edge of Park North and Walcot. The New College management are looking to the Council to give it a 25 year lease. The cost of the pitch would be £600,000 with…Read more…
Speech: Campaign for Labour Party Democracy AGM
It is a privilege to address your AGM. CLPD gives coherence to everything the left stands for inside the Party – to be practical, effective and principled. There is no difference amongst us,…Read more…
PEOPLE’S QUESTION TIME IN BARNET – 19 MARCH
Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus LinkedIn
An impressive line up of speakers
Francesca Martinez Comedian and activist
read moreRead more…
“Our line in the sand – no to mass outsourcing”
Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus LinkedIn
Click here for a quick overview as to where we are in relation to the ideological assault on in house delivery of Council services in London Borough of…Read more…
Blacklisted – The Book: Official Trailer
Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus LinkedIn
Read more…
NHS Devolution – another Trojan Horse?
Greater Manchester is to take control of the region’s Health and Social Care spending. Yesterday George Osborne announced that from 2016 Greater Manchester’s combined authorities will take…Read more…
An Open Letter To Socialist Party Members In Unite
The following is an open and public letter from members of Unite’s United Left grouping to members of the Socialist Party who are standing candidates against Labour candidates in marginal…Read more…
The Soldier and the Snow by Miguel Hernandez
December has frozen its double-edged breath
and blows it down from the icy heavens,
like a dry fire coming apart in threads,
like a huge ruin that topples on…Read more…
International Unions Support Locked Out Glencore Workers.
One Hundred USW members and allies from trade unions from Texas and around the world visited the Houston offices of multinational corporation Glencore on February 26th to present the company with a…Read more…
US Oil Strike – More Refineries Walk Out
According to reports on the negotiation front, it is being reported that “it’s been a quiet week for striking oil workers and energy executives”. The United Steelworkers added three more…Read more…
Britain Must End All Intervention in Ukraine:
From left: Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko pose for a group photo at Independence…Read more…
Rachel Reeves, Maternity Leave and CWU Youth
The utterly appalling and reactionary howls that greeted Rachel Reeve’s maternity leave plans remind us that although we have come a long way, there is still just as far to go on when it comes…Read more…
UNISON National Community Seminar 2015
This afternoon was the start of the Unison National Seminar for Community (Housing Associations & Voluntary Sector) in Bradford.
Beforehand there was a meeting of delegates who work in community sectors. I went to the Housing Associations meeting….Read more…
Ukraine: The role of Fascist far right in conflict
The Azov volunteer battalion is run by an extremist group and sports a modified neo-Nazi Wolf’s Hook Ever since Ukraine’s February revolution, the Kremlin has characterised the new…Read more…
Stop playing a numbers game with net migration
Yesterday the Office for National Statistics reported that net migration has risen to 298,000 meaning the government has missed its target of reducing net migration to ‘the tens of thousands’. This is not surprising news – but that’s part of the problem. Voters already feel politicians can’t be…Read more…
Mark Serwotka comes to Barnet
Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus LinkedIn
Mark Serwotka heads up an impressive list of speakers at Barnet Trades Council AGM on Wednesday 11 March 2015 6:30PM in the Safari Bar & restaurant…Read more…
Housing inequality and soaring rent costs
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) released the 2013-14 English Housing Survey data yesterday, containing some remarkable news on the English housing market. The press focused mainly on the news that outright owners of homes now…Read more…