Strikes in Further and Higher Education
The start of the new academic year has seen a number of strikes throughout both further (FE) and higher education (HE). On September
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Quote of the week – Mother Jones
“I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes.
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Pandora’s Box
The recent leaking of 11.9 million files from offshore companies reveals the corruption of the system and the greed of the rich. In
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Croydon Council – not a friend of the working class
The Labour Council of Croydon, in south west London has long waged a war against its own working class. In summer 2020 it
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Cleaners protests on 8th and 15th October
Facebook cleaners, members of CAIWU (the Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers’ Union) are balloting for strike action over the dismissal of one of
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Workplace Notes: strike news
Manchester TramsManchester Metrolink workers are set to strike on Sunday 10th October, the same day as the Manchester Marathon, over management’s poor pay
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Weetabix Fire and Rehire
Engineers at two Weetabix factories went out on a two-day strike in late September. The workers at Kettering and Corby came out over
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Abortion Mobilisations
Tens of thousands marched throughout all the fifty states of the USA on Saturday October 2nd before the Supreme Court reconvened on October
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Labour pains
Keir Starmer’s speech to Labour Party conference promised nothing to the working class and plenty to the bosses. Starmer went out of his
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Quote of the Week – Engels
“A clique united only by their fear of the threatening rule of the workers and doing all in their power to avert this
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