After years of government failure, our country is crying out for a different and better approach – strengthening rights at work, making sure new jobs are good jobs, and ending the race to the bottom…Read more…
Steel deal completed
Unite said today’s (May 2) announcement that Liberty House had formally completed a £100m deal to acquire the speciality steel division of Tata Steel UK, was testament to the skills and resolve of…Read more…
Exeter Political Forum:
An Invitation to the Exeter Political Forum on the Future of Society Saturday, May 20, 2017, 11:00 am (registration) – 5:00 pm To participate, contact us at the Trades Council. The times are crying…Read more…
We need to stop the financialisation of justice
The campaigns against TTIP and CETA – EU trade deals with the US and Canada – have raised public awareness of the dangers of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) system. ISDS is a corporate court system contained in trade deals which allows international companies to sue governments for…Read more…
How the tax system is driving people into insecure work in unexpected ways
I work for the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group, a group of tax and welfare rights specialists with expertise in the tax and related welfare issues of the low-paid. Often, people contact us describing their problems with tax, National Insurance, tax credit…Read more…
Scotland is NOT our local
Three days to go to polling day for the council elections – just in case anyone noticed. Even before the general election was dumped on us, national issues dominated the debate.
If the parties want…Read more…
#GE17 West Hammers playing at home
Yesterday I was pounding the mean streets of Forest Gate North again with a team led by local Councillor, Anamul Islam. We were joined by a very young pioneer (10 months?) and her Mum, who had never been out canvassing before. By the end of the session…Read more…
Housing announcement: Labour’s consumer rights revolution for renters
“The Conservative’s record on housing is one of seven years of failure.
In the private rented sector, tenants are now spending £800 million every month on homes which the Government classes as ‘non-decent’. Around a quarter of this – some £2.3 billion a year – is paid by housing benefit.
Labour…Read more…
London Mayday:
MAY DAY 2017 MONDAY MAY 1 ASSEMBLE CLERKENWELL GREEN 12 NOON MARCH TO TRAFALGAR SQUARE 13.00 FIGHTING AUSTERITY – FIGHTING CUTS FIGHTING ANTI-TRADE UNION LAWS CELEBRATING WORKING CLASS ACHIEVEMENT…Read more…
MAYDAY:
MAY FIRST 2017 Urgent Need to Develop the Independent Politics of the Working Class and Uphold the Rights of All! On the occasion of May First 2017, the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain…Read more…
Housing in the South and Isle of Wight, as elsewhere, is an election issue.
Housing is a basic human right. In order to recognise this right and provide it with a guarantee. In building their opposition, workers need to elaborate the alternative of a modern public housing…Read more…
Happy May Day!
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Trades Union Acts: The Necessity for Workers’ Rights and Organisation:
The Necessity for Workers’ Rights and Organisation to develop empowerment and Opposition. The General Election campaign in its first week has already seen workers’ rights to organise in Trades Unions…Read more…
Royal Mail: Pension closure plan, yet another attack on working class pensions.
Workers will vote on taking industrial action over Royal Mail’s plan to end the current pension scheme. Royal Mail says the current scheme is “too costly”. Mail workers are being treated as if…Read more…
The General Election and the Necessity for Education
In the current General Election the issues surrounding social programmes will see the NHS, Education and Transport, raised to a greater or lesser extent. The NHS will be prominent but consciousness…Read more…
Letter to Island Labour pressures them to withdraw from the General Election on the Island:
Letter calls for Labour to make way for Greens on Isle of Wight Isle of Wight Labour parliamentary candidate Julian Critchley has said a call to stand aside for the Greens should be ‘put to…Read more…