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This is another picture collage of West Ham (and East Ham) Labour out campaigning this weekend.
There is a Stratford & New Town ward team in Abbey Lane, E15. While East and West Ham activists were out Sunday morning with Ilford South, Mike Gapes. …Read more…
Bank made £1.8bn profit but still refuses to pay staff £7.85 a hourRead more…
You have until the end of today, Monday 20 April to register to vote for the General Election. You can go to your local Council or go to https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote
It takes around 5 minutes and you just need your national insurance number (on…Read more…
Check out Mind the Gap for further information on this USA chart which I think will mirror what has happened in the UK and other countries as well.
It is also about something I constantly go on about at work. The more of us in the union – th…Read more…
This morning I had to take some recycling round to the communal recycling bin (which is part of my Green local authority’s utterly inadequate approach to environmental policies) and I found that someone had dropped some recycling straight through the letterbox.These were some leaflets boasting…Read more…
Hat tip to Cambridgeshire University Labour club for this poster.
Katie Hopkins is the Sun columnist who recently called migrants “cockroaches” and “doesn’t care if migrants die while trying to leave their countries by boat” ” even if she was shown “coffins and bodies floating in water” she would…Read more…
The UNISON postal ballot election for a new National Executive Committee started on 7 April but continues until 15 May. So there is still plenty of time for UNISON members to vote if they have not done so.
This is a copy of my ballot paper and pr…Read more…
On the 20-22 April the STUC Congress will be meeting in Ayr. The theme of this year’s Congress is Decent Work and Dignified Lives. In the run up to Congress this blog will host a series of…Read more…
The Right to Housing Is an Election Issue Part 3 – The monopolisation of the housing market by big investors (Parts 1 and 2 appeared in WWIE Volume 45, Numbers 7 and 8) A recent article in the…Read more…
Pictures of some of the West Ham Labour Party activists out campaigning with our Parliamentary Candidate, Lyn Brown and Stratford & New Town ward Candidate, Charlene McLean.
Yesterday evening in Stratford, Green Street this morning and this aftern…Read more…
On the 20-22 April the STUC Congress will be meeting in Ayr. The theme of this year’s Congress is Decent Work and Dignified Lives. In the run up to Congress this blog will host a series of…Read more…
#A18DoA #NoTTIP Today is a Global Day of Action against free trade and investment treaties. Over 25 protests are planned in Britain including a major event ‘Democracy vs TTIP’ at Shepherds Bush…Read more…
On the 20-22 April the STUC Congress will be meeting in Ayr. The theme of this year’s Congress is Decent Work and Dignified Lives. In the run up to Congress this blog will host a series of…Read more…
Transport union RMT is supporting a major rally and festival in the heart of the Kent coal fields over the coming May Day bank holiday weekend.Read more…
On the 20-22 April the STUC Congress will be meeting in Ayr. The theme of this year’s Congress is Decent Work and Dignified Lives. In the run up to Congress this blog will host a series of…Read more…
Peng Jiayong, a Chinese labour rights activist who was severely beaten and hospitalised due to his active involvement in the Cui Heng factory workers’ strike, told USi despite the threat and violence…Read more…
Water privatisation is in retreat. Water and wastewater is returning to local authority ownership across the world.
The Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU), Multinational Observatory,…Read more…
On the 20-22 April the STUC Congress will be meeting in Ayr. The theme of this year’s Congress is Decent Work and Dignified Lives. In the run up to Congress this blog will host a series of…Read more…
And of course the gap in the UK is by far the worse. This cannot continue. Only a Labour Government can make a difference.
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At the Conservative party conference last year David Cameron announced that a future Conservative government would seek to introduce two separate income tax cuts: an above inflation increase in the personal allowance and a rise in the higher rate thres…Read more…