Welcome to the Branch Newsletter! Last Monday, we all heard the horrible news about the powerful earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria early in the morning. A week later there are still many people trapped under debris, and the ones who ma…Read more…
Emergency Fundraising Dinner for Turkiye & Syria – Sisters Forum
This evening I went to support a fundraising dinner being held for disaster relief of victims of the recent deadly earthquake in Turkey and Syria. I think all of us have been pretty shocked by the media footage of the death and devastation caused…Read more…
Abandoned and betrayed
Two weeks before the recent Turkish invasion of North and East Syria, where 11,000 men and women from the UK-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) died defeating ISIS, a Unite delegation toured the…Read more…
“A project for all of us”
These days Syria is a byword for destruction, danger and chaos, which was why the decision to send a Unite delegation to the troubled nation was not taken lightly. But although much of the…Read more…
Kindertransport Kids – London Liverpool Street Station 1938 and Calais 2016
This morning I was on my way to a seminar on opposing the new Housing & Planning Act.
I stopped off in London Liverpool Street station to take this photo of the statute (by the ticket office) in honour of the thousands of unaccompanied …Read more…
Brothers
Sound waves reverberated. Nation states rewarded an explosion of celebration. Medals awarded. Flags seized. Hugged around. Olympians fell and kissed the ground An explosion of…Read more…
Dulwich Hamlet take on FC Assyria in charity match for refugees, Wednesday 2nd March
Well done to Southwark UNISON for sponsoring this event “On Wednesday, 2nd March, Dulwich Hamlet FC are playing a fundraising match against Middlesex County Leaguers FC Assyria, with all money raised being split between the British Red Cross Syria App…Read more…
Sunday Night Live: Syria and Airstrikes
A week on from the Commons vote, which extended Britain’s bombing campaign against ISIS into Syria, this Sunday Night Live special explores where now for the multinational coalition against Daesh.
With on-going controversy surrounding Cameron’s widely challenged claim of 70,000 moderate Syrian…Read more…
Sunday Night Live “21st Century NHS – a state of perpetual upheaval and crisis. Where now for the health service?”
Pictures from last weekends “Sunday Night Live” at Stratford Picture House, E15. The debate was about the crisis in the NHS.
West Hammer Neil Wilson chaired. There was two guest speakers, Nigel Keohane, from the Social Market Foundation and Jos …Read more…
Humanity
Packing up her school books Laughing with her friend It only took a moment For her school days to come to an end “We’re only kids in school” Her voice was pained but clear Bodies charred and…Read more…
A vital vote
This week Labour MPs are likely to have to cast what will be one of the most important parliamentary votes of their career when the Prime Minister brings his proposal for Britain to join the bombing…Read more…
We are all migrants
Yesterday the first official refugees from Syria arrived in the UK at Glasgow airport. Some random thoughts.
Firstly, I am reminded of this fascinating research about the generic make up of many Brits. The Romans, Vikings and Normans had apparently l…Read more…
Break the cycle of war
Unite delegate Ivan Monckton spoke on behalf of the union at the Labour party conference on Wednesday (September 30) proposing an emergency motion on Syria. “It is likely that very soon…Read more…
West Ham Labour January update – General Election just 120 days away (& debate on Syria)
“Happy 2015… It’s only seven days into the new year and already voters can’t have failed to notice there’s a General Election coming.
The Tories have already published a false dossier on Labour’s plans and the NHS is in crisis.
General Election 201…Read more…