This morning I received my 2nd ballot paper.  This was was from the the Co-operative Party (London region) which is affiliated to London Labour Party.  Therefore I can vote again on who should be the Labour candidate for London Mayor 2012. I voted (on-line) for...

Thanks to the Organising Academy and my experience with the Communication Workers Union, I am obsessed by the extent to which unions have adopted the organising agenda – not just in this country but abroad. I recently came across a website called “Against the Grain – A Programme about...

There is an alternative to savage cuts in public services is the message from a strategy meeting of unions and community groups hosted by UNISON Scotland today 4 September. The 270 delegates...

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Concern is growing over Mark Thompson’s visit to Number 10 to discuss the BBC’s coverage of government cuts on Thursday. The BBC’s Director General was pictured in Downing Street with a memo from Helen Boaden, his Head of News, detailing what would be covered in a forthcoming series on the cuts,...

On 23rd July 2010 the Joint General Secretaries wrote out to Regional Secretaries and Executive Council members to consult about the future of branches. At the July EC meeting, a few days later, concerns were raised that this had not been adequately circulated, and the Executive was assured that...

KESK, the Turkish Federation of Public Employees Trade Unions, are calling on public service unions worldwide to demand the release of Lokman Özdemir. Brother Özdemir is the President of KESK...

The Hutton Commission maybe on the verge of giving the Treasury the opportunity to go for a quick win on public sector pensions according to Public Finance magazine:...

One week ago, while touring Basingstoke Hospital, Health Minister Andrew Lansley casually announced the Coalition Government’s plan to axe the NHS Direct service, the 24 hour nurse led helpline which...

Despite their stifled yawns he tries to tell them abut Marx and to sum up his thesis in a sentence. Our reality, consciousness, identity, our political, cultural and economic systems are...

Defend our Roma! Europe’s oldest integration challenge… Defend our Roma! “Despite hundreds of years having passed, this group of “travelling people” has remained nomadic, poor and...

Could an ordinary member win the election for General Secretary of the Country’s biggest union? Posted by jerryhicks4gs on August 17, 2010 Unite the Union Britain’s largest and most influential Trade...

UNISON members who pay into the union's Affiliated Political Fund will soon be receiving ballot papers for the Labour leadership election. UNISON's national Labour Link Committee has endorsed Ed...

Ed Balls made a speech to Bloomberg last week, and Martin Wolf commended his argument in the Financial Times today. Both are worth reading in full, but for the time-challenged, here’s a summary. Government policy rests on four pillars: Labour is to blame for the UK’s economic problems;...

hat tip thingy Political Scrapbook via Rupa.  As translated here.

So, how much debt is too much? More than the government admits | Comment is Free Paul Segal has a great post on Comment is Free that demolishes the arguments that we cannot afford to run deficit. by ToUChstoneblog on 03/09/2010

Thursday 02 September 2010 Ports & Logistics PEEL Port’s plans to build a £200m ($307.9m) container terminal to handle post-panamax boxships in Liverpool have met a potentially significant...

Colleagues, On Sunday (5th Sep) the right-wing, Conservative-party linked Tax Payers' Alliance, will push further on their assault of the UK trade union movement with a claim that trade union facility time in the public waste is contributing to the 'waste' that has led to the government's public...