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In three decades of labour movement activism I have witnessed some truly monumental stupidity.
Last week’s Labour Party rule amendment to prohibit Labour Councillors from supporting unlawful budgets is up there in the top ten. For an opposition Party to commit its representatives irrevocably to…Read more…
If there has been one topic which has cropped up at every regional and national meeting of UNISON which I have attended in the past couple of weeks it has been the fight being waged by our Haringey Branch for fair pay for home care workers who have bee…Read more…
Can I just point out that someone is reading this blog and then reporting what I post to UNISON, thereby getting me into further trouble?
Honestly, I thought I could rely upon the regular readers of this blog (Sid and Doris anarcho-Trotskyist) not to …Read more…
It is good – if predictable – news that the socialist leader of the Labour Party has been re-elected with increased support in spite of the best efforts of much of the Parliamentary Labour Party, the media and the establishment to undermine him.He is even more fortunate in having been offered the…Read more…
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Yesterday I shared exclusively with regular readers of this blog (Sid and Doris Blogger) the meanderings with which I detained the loyal diehards who stayed to the end of this evening’s Labour Representation Committee fringe meeting at the TUC.I injected a little pessimism of the intellect (or…Read more…
Before there ever was a Labour Party there were trade unions and – since the 1860s – an annual Trades Union Congress, which has today been opened by this year’s President.Congress is, for what it’s worth, the Parliament of our movement. It is where our trade unions agree our policies and campaigns…Read more…
For the third time this summer I have to ask you, dear reader, to keep to yourself some information concerning disciplinary action being contemplated against your humble blogger.
I won’t bore you with the observation that this third and latest indicat…Read more…
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Whilst I am on leave, I can still see what is happening a stone’s throw from my office. Therefore please forgive a somewhat parochial blog post;
http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2016/08/the-heart-of-brixton-ripped-out-as-traders-are-evicted-from-the-brixton-…Read more…
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http://www.l-r-c.org.uk/I joined the Labour Party at the age of fifteen, going to meetings of the Labour Party Young Socialists (LPYS) at which I was (initially) the only person who wasn’t a supporter of the Militant Tendency (as it then was). I learn…Read more…
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 A couple of months ago I reported here that I was the subject of a UNISON disciplinary…Read more…
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The HMRC investigation into Sports Direct exposes the nature of the “jobs” created in recent years almost as well as the legal action being take against Uber by drivers seeking to show that they are not self-employed.
As a public sector trade union act…Read more…
Now we know.The Eagle has (crash) landed and Labour Party members, affiliated supporters and registered supporters now face a clear choice between our current Leader (elected overwhelmingly last year with UNISON support) and some bloke I’ve barely hea…Read more…