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Veteran anti-austerity campaigner and author Harry Leslie Smith speaks exclusively to UNITElive, following his address to a packed crowd at the University of Manchester NoVoteNoVoice event last week (March 11). It was the summer of 1945 and Harry Leslie Smith, then only 22, cast his first ballot in a general election. The Second World […]
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2015 could be a crunch year in the fight against global warming. One of the most effective ways you can play a part is to start (or get behind existing efforts) to ‘green your workplace’. This year,…Read more…
Workers across Northern Ireland engaged in a one-day strike to say ‘enough is enough – hands off our public services’. The strike on Friday (March 13) called in response to the Stormont ‘austerity budget’, saw an unprecedented mobilisation of public sector workers across a wide range of workplaces. “From our soundings over the […]
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Members of Community, GMB and Unite prepare to ballot over pensions changeRead more…
Unions welcomes public inquiry but says it must investigate revelations by Peter FrancisRead more…
UNISON says declaring nationwide major incident was “provocative”Read more…
Unite leader attacks “dangerous dog whistle politics”Read more…
Last week I watched Ed Balls give a typically combative speech at the RSA about Tory spending and taxation plans if they won the next election.
On Sunday morning I again saw Ed interviewed on the BBC Andrew Marr programme who then went on to intervie…Read more…
The Charity Aston-Mansfield is
seeking funding for its Newham LGBT Youth support group via a crowd funding campaign. They aim to raise £6,000 and have already donations from local football team Clapton Ultras after their Football vs Homophobia’ match. The crowd funding will last until the 11th…Read more…
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On Tuesday evening (and repeated 5pm today) the excellent investigative Radio 4 programme “File on 4” examined whether at the same time that Councils are suffering from massive Government cuts – their pension funds are also being ripped off by fund man…Read more…
The New Secularism, a Discriminatory Principle to Promote the Clash of Civilizations – Nicolas Bourgoin – These are hard times for the Republic: multiplying attacks against Muslims and their places…Read more…
‘There was absolutely no need for anything to do with austerity. It is really a political project which has been carried out in the UK for the last 30 or 40 years. It has eroded the purchasing power…Read more…
Today the TUC issues its Budget statement, accompanied by a report: ‘The price of austerity’. We know the government’s story: austerity was necessary to repair the profligacy of the Labour years and the unprecedented deficit in the wake of the financial crisis. But in spite of savage cuts to jobs,…Read more…
After our street stall today in Stratford many West Ham Labour Party members went off to canvass in the marginal seat of Ilford North to support Wes Streeting as its future Labour MP.
We were split between two large local canvass teams. It was a…Read more…
A fired union rep at Whipps Cross Hospital was defended by former employees at a tribunal today. The tribunal resumed today for Charlotte Monro, former moving and handling coordinator at the…Read more…
Today we had a West Ham Labour Party stall outside Stratford Shopping centre, giving out the ever popular Labour Party balloons to prospective voters under the age of 10 and leaflets to their parents on Labour plans for rent controls and protect the NH…Read more…
Necessity for New Pro-Social Direction for the Economy The current methods to claim government revenue have hit a roadblock. Two issues emphasize the difficulties: 1) The global monopolies that…Read more…
#M13 Over 50,000 public service workers, including UNISON members, across Northern Ireland took 24 hour all out strike action against austerity cuts yesterday. Education, health, transport and…Read more…