Tory bigot under pressure
On 25 January, over 60 people took part in an LGBTQ rights protest at Royal Holloway University against Tory Minister for Defence Philip Hammond.On 25 January, over 60 people took part in an LGBTQ...
View ArticlePolice break Greek subway strike
On 17 January Athens subway workers began a nine-day strike. They were eventually forced back to work when the government used emergency laws to intimidate strikers and sent the riot police into an...
View ArticleHelp us raise £15,000
An update on our fund drive.This week, we raised £141 towards our fund appeal. This includes £41 in donations from our dayschool on Antonio Gramsci in Manchester, £25 from a film showing of Ken Loach’s...
View ArticleAssad clique cannot be part of “bourgeois peace”
In the closing weeks of 2012 residents of Bostan al-Qasr, a neighborhood in the Syrian city of Aleppo, were attacked by fighters from the Islamist Jubhat al-Nusra faction of the opposition.Could the...
View ArticleUnite the workers, unite Europe
Britain leaving the EU would not help the labour movement but would boost the Tories, Ukip and BNP.David Cameron has committed to calling a referendum after 2015 on British membership of the European...
View Article150 years of working on London Underground
A tubeworker's thoughts on working underground.Traverse these airless edges.London Underground,5am to final lamp.A litany of tunnels punched out memory of light.Station upon station, footfall...
View ArticleOccupy to defend jobs and services!
How occupations can save jobs and services.After the banking crisis hit fully in late 2008, throughout 2009 there was a spate of occupations as working-class people resisted job losses and threats to...
View ArticleThe Tuaregs in the Malian conflict
The Tuareg people, a nomadic Berber people living in Saharan north Africa, have rebelled five times in the last century.The Tuareg people, a nomadic Berber people living in Saharan north Africa, have...
View ArticleYorkshire teachers say: strike in March!
A meeting of National Union of Teachers reps and activists in Yorkshire has called on the union’s Executive to reverse its decision not to strike in March against Michael Gove’s plans to attack...
View ArticlePCS national strike ballot
The Public and Commercial Services union is to launch a nationwide strike ballot.The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) will launch a nationwide strike ballot on Friday 8 February. The ballot...
View ArticleIndustrial news in brief
Tyne and Wear Metro cleaners; Brighton Greens attack council workers; Mid Yorks health workers strike.Cleaners on the Tyne and Wear Metro have struck for the twelfth time in their battle against...
View Article25,000 march in Lewisham
With as many as 25,000 people marching, the Saturday 26 January demonstration in Lewisham was the biggest local demonstration in defence of the NHS and against hospital closures in British history....
View ArticleRally to defend Bob Carnegie
Supporters of victimised Australian trade unionist Bob Carnegie will rally outside the Federal Magistrates Court in Brisbane on Monday 11 February, as the first of the cases against Bob...
View ArticleManchester councillors' anti-cuts pledge
Manchester Labour councillors Julie Reid and Aftab Ahmed have said they will vote against the City Council’s cuts budget.Manchester Labour councillors Julie Reid and Aftab Ahmed have said they will...
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Solidarity 272
Click here to download the paper as a pdf.Click here to read articles online.Download pdf.Publications: Solidarity 272, 30 January 2013Tweet
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