Start: 02/12/2015 09:30
Timezone: Europe/London
Start: 02/12/2015 09:30
Timezone: Europe/London
Wednesday 2 December 2015.
A one-day conference
The Adelphi Hotel,…Read more…
Fidelity "steers away from" own previous views?
Just a quick update, as I noted in a previous post Fidelity says it has “deliberately steered away from” addressing the question of scale/size/amount (or as they say “quantum”) of executive pay.
This hasn’t always been their view. It turns out that Fi…Read more…
Getting the postal vote out for John Biggs as Labour Mayor for Tower Hamlets.
On Thursday evening I went to help the Labour Party candidate for Tower Hamlets Mayor, John Biggs and was given a bundle of letters addressed to postal voters to deliver in and around Leman Street, Whitechapel. I didn’t really know this part of Tower H…Read more…
Stop the Tories ballot-rigging proposal
Stop the Tories ballot rigging proposals A letter to the Swindon Advertiser The parliamentary majority which the Tories won in the General Election was delivered by the undemocratic first past the post system (FPTP). Whilst they might be said to have a…Read more…
IMPORTANT UPDATE: 48 Hour strike begins tomorrow
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Why diet-ISDS is almost as bad as ISDS, and why we should oppose both
The popular outcry against Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), the element of trade deals which gives foreign investors a privileged route to claim compensation for measures they claim cost them future profits, led the European Union Trade Commissioner to come up earlier this month with an…Read more…
London Coroner’s Careful Verdict Leaves Case for Pursuing Justice
A London coroner has accepted that London student Jeremiah Duggan was killed when he ran into motorway traffic outside Wiesbaden, in Germany, as reported by witnesses; but rejected the German…Read more…
Remembering V1 “Doodlebug” attack on Forest Gate
Hat tip to local history site “E7 Now and Then” for an excellent post on the carnage that was caused by a V1 Rocket hitting Dames Road, Forest Gate on 27 July 1944.
A trolley bus and homes were destroyed and this was the horrific account by Cyril Dema…Read more…
Partisan Song | Canción de los Partisanos
Least we forget.Read more…
Filipino Nurses Protest outside the “racist” Daily Mail
Over 250 Filipino NHS nurses protested today outside the Headquarters of the right wing tabloid newspaper, The Daily Mail. They were demanding an apology from the Mail for racially stereotyping all Filipino nurses as potential “murderers”, following th…Read more…
Caledonia Investments Tory cash drop 2
I’ve blogged previously about Caledonia Investments continuing to give the company’s money to the Conservative Party, this time without shareholder approval. I’ve just spotted that actually they have done it twice in the past few months, first in Eastl…Read more…
Weak growth and extreme cuts a dangerous combination, says TUC
28 May 2015 Commenting on the latest release today (Thursday) from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on GDP figures, which confirms that the slowest recovery in modern history is slowing down…Read more…
West Ham Labour nominates Sadiq Khan and Tessa Jowell as their London Mayoral Candidates
Over 80 members of West Ham Labour Party attended yesterday evening’s nomination meeting at Vicarage Lane Community centre, E15. At the beginning, our CLP Chair, Charlene McLean, called out the names of the 8 declared candidates and asked for proposers…Read more…
Join us at Tower Hamlets tomorrow at 12 – Bethnal Green Station
Tower Hamlets Mayoral by-election – Sat 30 May 12pm
Please come and join us to help John Biggs become the Labour Mayoral of Tower Hamlets. We are meeting inside Bethnal Green station (just after the ticket barriers) at 12pm on Saturday. Don’t worr…Read more…
We would like to discuss…
Since the General Election, some of us were thinking we would like to discuss Austerity as this has so many implications along with the Alternative, which is growth. In fact, we would like this…Read more…
TTIP – European Parliament fight moves on
The international trade committee of the European Parliament (known as INTA) adopted a report yesterday on the controversial EU-US trade deal known as TTIP (Trans-Atlantic Trade & Investment…Read more…
Missing in action: labour in ESG, again
A quick plug for the BlackRock/CERES report on shareholder engagement on ESG issues which is available here. There look to be quite a few interesting pieces in there from people who know what they are talking about.
I’m taking my little hobby horse ou…Read more…
Labour needs trade union allies
Over my long life I have been many things: As a lad I was a child labourer who lived in cheap doss houses with my parents who had been made destitute by the Great Depression. As a young man, I…Read more…
“Height of insanity”
The Tories’ latest right-to-buy housing scheme will spell disaster for London’s already beleaguered housing market. A key part of the Conservative manifesto, extending right-to-buy to housing…Read more…
Morning Star and the EU: The EU is in trouble and it is the working class which poses the real threat to its future:
THE EU: ANTI- SOCIALIST AND ANTI-DEMOCRATIC May 2015 Tuesday 26th posted by Morning Star in Features The EU is in trouble and it is the working class which poses the real threat to its future, writes…Read more…