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An Injury to One is An Injury to All

ITF letter for release of Mumia Abu-Jamal

Doctors in Unite: Resist NHS migrant charges
Patients Not Passports leaflet for NHS strikes
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Dockers

All Out on Juneteenth, And Stay Out to Win!
Frederick Douglass

South African dockers strikes: international zoom

Liverpool dockers celebrate major victory after Unite secures pay deal worth between 14.3% and 18.5% (Unite)

Liverpool dock workers to begin two-week strike 24 October after talks end in ‘chaos’ (Guardian)
Unite: Liverpool port dispute escalates as two more weeks of strike announced
Unite: Victory to the Dockers

Unite: Liverpool docks 2 week strike from 20 Sept
94% union density, 99.2% vote for industrial action
Felixstowe next week

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Facebook: Liverpool dockers message from John Lynch

IDC statement on Liverpool Dockers Strike

The International Dockworkers Council - IDC, an organisation representing over 140,000 dockers worldwide, hereby communicates its full support for the demands of the Liverpool dockers.
As an international organisation based on solidarity among workers, IDC does not rule out taking action to defend the interests of the Liverpool dockers, dismantling any attempt by the companies to undermine the strike legally organized by UNITE THE UNION for September 19, 2022, where IDC will be present reinforcing the picket line.
IDC is also mediating to unblock the conflict.
We recall that this is a conflict of wage parity, requesting a wage increase in line with inflation in the country.
In solidarity
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ITF and ETF support for Liverpool strike

Dock workers strike at Port of Liverpool over 'pay cut dressed up as rise' (Liverpool Echo)

Strikes update 26 August (Manchester TUC)
Gtr Manchester upcoming strikes and protests (Manchester TUC)
Strikes update 28 July (Manchester TUC)

Dockers Demand Better (Unite)
#DockersDemandBetter
#Enough is Enough
Felixstowe: Strike set to begin at UK's biggest container port (BBC)
Join the Felixstowe picket line (Unite)
Massive 92 per cent yes vote for strike action at Felixstowe Docks (Unite)
Strikes announced at port of Felixstowe as company fails to make acceptable pay offer (Unite)

‘Terrible mistake’: human rights groups decry sending cluster bombs to Ukraine (Guardian)
US to supply Ukraine with cluster bombs for first time (Financial Times)
Ukraine: Civilian Deaths from Cluster Munitions (Human Rights Watch)

IDC: No to War and Repression
ITF: Dockers unite against Putin's Ukraine invasion

Open Letter to the ILWU
Comment on Open Letter to the ILWU
Jack Heyman: Response to Greg Dropkin on Ukraine War
Greg Dropkin: Response to Jack Heyman on Ukraine

Bogus ‘anti-imperialism’ serves the Kremlin
A letter to the Western left from Kyiv

Russia, Ukraine, Energy and the West
Bolton Socialist Club: Red Friday
25th November 7:30pm
details

Liverpool Enough is Enough rally (1) (Skwawkbox)
Liverpool Enough is Enough rally (2) (Skwawkbox)
Liverpool Enough is Enough march (YouTube)

NHS pay offer £1400, inflation 11.8% (RPI June) = 7% cut for AfC Band 5 (e.g. most nurses)
NHS Workers Say NO: Reject the offer - get ready to strike!
NHS Pay Cuts protest: 6:30pm Mon 25 July, Dept of Health & Social Care (London)
Delayed, disappointing pay rise will leave staff considering their futures, say health unions
Public would back industrial action over NHS pay (Unison)
Snap poll: 81% of nurses back strike over 7% real terms pay cut

Rewriting the rules on Emergency Care without Parliamentary scrutiny

What's just happened, how did the UK government respond, and what's it got to do with us?
Following Israel’s latest massacre in Gaza: It’s high time for the UN to act to dismantle apartheid (BDS movement)
Northwest local government pension fund investments supply arms to Israel (updated 22/02/23)
Northwest local government pension fund investments supply illegal Israeli settlements (updated 22/02/23)

US-owned firm advised Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Care Board

NHS staff will never forget (NHS Workers Say NO)
Johnson's legacy: misconduct, death and NHS in crisis (KONP)

Unite national officer (Health) letter to Wes Streeting
Tentacles wrapped around the NHS

Labour Court denies Numsa leave to appeal, conference remains interdicted (news24)
NUMSA suspended members take the union to court
NUMSA Shopstewards and Elected officials are fighting for the union’s soul
Billionaire funder shuts down independent South African media outlet

Liverpool protest at Integrated Care Board 1 July

RMT Liverpool rally 12pm Sat 25 June
RMT: Second strike day sees huge turnout on pickets
Support the rail strikes: Manchester pickets and rally 3pm 25 June (RS21)
RMT 20 June: National Rail & London Underground Strikes
Manchester TUC: Strike solidarity and protests
RMT response to Grant Shapps
RMT launch 3 days of national strike action across the railway network
Unite members at TfL and London Underground to strike over pensions, pay and jobs
91,000 civil service cuts: PCS members are tax payers, too
FBU goes to court after bosses’ “secret letter” aimed at blocking pensions
TUC: We demand better: March and Rally, 18 June

Privilege Style: the Home Office’s deportation airline of last resort (Corporate Watch Dec 2020)
Unions call for delay to Rwanda policy until legal position fully tested (Guardian 13 June 2022)
Outcome announced of PCS challenge to Home Office Rwanda removal policy (PCS 10 June 2022)

Health and Care Bill

The battle is over but the war goes on (KONP)
Parliamentary debate ends

Unison Health Care Conference
Unison Health Care Conference leaflet

Sad News Jimmy Nolan has Passed Away…
Jimmy Nolan letter to ILWU - 18 November 1997

Letter to Jimmy Nolan 23 January 2021

Excerpt from Solidarity, Global Restructuring and Deregulation: The Liverpool Dockers’ Dispute 1995-98, by Monica Clua Losada

The need for internationalism grew from the stark realisation that the way in which dockworkers in Liverpool had fought previous struggles was no longer going to be effective. The world in which they operated had changed radically. In 1967 and 1989, they were not alone and they were not just fighting their employer. Their struggle was not localised, but rather part of the struggle of many other British dockers against both their employers and the regulatory (or deregulatory) changes initiated by the government. This time it was just them and the employer and they were only a few. It was in this sense, that shop stewards’ chairman Jimmy Nolan, recollecting his previous international experience, launched the idea of an international initiative in a pub conversation amongst the shop stewards.

Nolan’s idea got the ball rolling. The dockworkers already had contacts, and the support groups that had started to be formed in Britain, particularly the Merseyside support group and some of the initiators of the London support groups, had contacts in the international Trotskyist movement. The international campaign was based upon three pillars: the dormant international contacts amongst dockworkers, the international Trotskyist movement and the Liverpool dockworkers themselves creating ‘flying pickets’. At the same time, a fourth factor started to become prominent, the use of the Internet. At this stage the coordination of these four factors was not necessarily a coherent strategy, but rather the attempt to utilise everything available...

Time for Real Change: Paul Holmes
Time for Real Change: Unison NEC Committee meetings

Coventry Bin Strike (Unite)
Twitter: #CovBinStrike

G4S Croydon hospital workers protest 31 Jan to demand covid sick pay (GMB)
Great Ormond Street security guards strike (UVW union)
Security guards at Great Ormond Street Hospital to strike over ‘unfair’ maternity rights (Independent)

Burns, Emergency Care and the Health Bill
Data, Privatisation and Integrated Care
Tentacles wrapped around the NHS
Health Bill: Unite briefing on Lords amendments

US rallies 27 Jan: Solidarity with South African Clover strike against redundancies after Israeli takeover
South Africa: Clover workers strike against long hours and less pay (New Frame)
Striking Clover workers call for nationalisation (SABC)
Sign appeal in support of Clover strikers
Video: South Africa Clover Workers Strike Israeli Billionaires With John Appolis GIWUSA General Secretary (laborvideo)

Palestine Action Victory in Oldham!

Victory in Oldham: Elbit forced to sell Ferranti after sustained direct action campaign
Another Elbit case dropped after prosecution offer no evidence

For International Workers Action to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal

UNITE join Call to Action to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Call to Action and Endorsers
For International Workers Action to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Answering the call from the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA)

Liverpool Dockers: website for the book

Video: Book Launch of Liverpool Dockers: A History of Rebellion and Betrayal
Fighting to implement members democratic decisions, denied by union bureaucracy
Democracy and the Union – review of Liverpool Dockers: A History of Rebellion and Betrayal
The Lizard's Trail on the Liverpool Docks (Bryan D. Palmer, Counterpunch)
Liverpool Dockers: A History of Rebellion and Betrayal, by Mike Carden
Book Launch 11 am 19 May, The Casa

History: the Namibian uranium blockade on Liverpool docks

Mike Carden, who died on 9 December, was a shop steward in the T&GWU 567 clerical section on Liverpool docks, elected to the union’s General Executive Council, and one of the leaders during the sacked Liverpool dockers dispute 1995-98. He had a direct and immediate understanding of the class conflict at work, and saw far beyond Liverpool.

Mike Carden funeral
ILWU condolences on the passing of Mike Carden
ILA condolences on the passing of legendary labor leader Mike Carden
The Aftermath of Liverpool - Where was British Labor? (David Bacon)
Video message from Angela Davis (May 2021)
A real soldier in the class war
To know reality and tie it to action
Mike Carden on the anti-apartheid blockade
One of many who shone through
Mike Carden’s Passing
A passionate and very important trade unionist
I’ll be brief

Saint John dockers court victory over Yemen arms shipment picket

Response to Health and Care Bill 2021-22

KONP AGM unanimously adopts motion on Health and Care Bill

Comments on the Health and Care Bill 2021-22

Keep Our NHS Public statement on eve of Bill publication
Demo: Parliament 12:30-14:30 Wed 14^th July

Liverpool Arms Fair

Liverpool rises in opposition to arms fair as legal challenge is mounted (Open Democracy)

Massacres and Money: from Gaza to the Liverpool Arms Fair

Palestinian responses to Liverpool Arms Fair plan

PGFTU-Gaza and civil society organisations
The Palestine New Federation of Trade Unions

We’re not asking for compensation, we’re asking for what’s ours
Biomedical Scientists in Unite pay strike in Burnley and Blackburn

PGFTU Gaza thanks ILWU Local 10 and AROC

Up to 1,000 People Protest Unloading of Israeli Ship in Oakland (NBC)

Stop ZIM Action Committee 4 June: The Volans left the Port of Oakland earlier this afternoon. Longshoremen and port truckers honored the picket lines, and the ship left unworked. It looks like the Bay Area has now organized the only successful labor action anywhere in the world - to date - against the atrocities in Gaza. The Stop ZIM Action Committee is continuing to monitor the situation. We hope other West Coast ports will refuse to work the Volans. The Stop ZIM Action Committee would like to thank the longshoremen of Local 10, the ships' clerks of Local 34 and the port truckers for honoring the picket. line, and the Block the Boat Coalition for their role in making the picket happen.

The Journal of Commerce reports that "Due to vessel delays in Oakland, Zim is suspending its premium trans-Pacific service until at least late July and is re-routing the service from Central China to call in Los Angeles-Long Beach."

The earlier action in Livorno, Italy reported on 17 May was successful, but the ship with military cargo for Israel was then unloaded in Naples. It is unclear if an action announced in Durban, South Africa, was in fact successful.

PGFTU Gaza appeal for international action

Stop ZIM Action Committee

Facebook: Stop ZIM Action Committee
Twitter: @StopZIMOak

May 25th NCDC-ILWU Statement On Palestine

The International Dockworkers Council (IDC) strongly condemns the massacre of civilians and children in Palestine. Unconditional support to the Palestinian General Strike... IDC calls on all dockworkers to show the solidarity that has been demonstrated so many times in so many conflicts. We cannot allow ourselves to be complicit in this violence by working on ships that operate war merchandise destined to massacre civilians and children.

IDC statement in full

Palestinians calling from Gaza to Jerusalem: All out on Saturday May 15th End the Ongoing Nakba and the Massacre in Besieged Gaza

U.S. Labor Must Stand With Palestine!

Pro-Palestine Italian port workers refuse to load arms shipment destined for Israel
Italian Dockers Refuse to Load Arms Shipment to Israel in Solidarity with Palestine
Coordinadora message to Livorno (en español)
Flashback – Blockade: Dockers respond to Israel’s Flotilla Massacre and Gaza Siege

Israeli Strike In Gaza Destroys Building That Housed AP, Other Media (AP)
Israel must be held accountable for its crimes against journalists and civilians (IFJ)

CAAT calls for immediate investigation into whether UK-made arms have been used in the ongoing bombardment of Gaza

Northern local government pension fund investments supply arms to Israel
Northern local government pension fund investments supply illegal Israeli settlements

Petition: Stop the Liverpool Electronic Arms Fair

Joint Statement on Health and Care Bill (We Own It)

University of Liverpool UCU strike against redundancies
Action short-of-strike: Defending jobs at the University of Liverpool (zoom)

Rössing Uranium Mineworkers Report from Labour Arbitration Hearing
Rössing Uranium Mineworkers Press Statement
Namibia: Rössing Uranium Mineworkers Appeal as Branch Exec Dismissed

Liverpool UCU overwhelming vote for strike against job cuts
Liverpool UCU twitter feed
Liverpool Echo: University of Liverpool staff vote to strike over job cuts

Reject Government proposals for Integrated Care Systems

Model motion: "Oppose Integrated Care Systems in the English NHS"

Stop the roll out of Integrated Care Systems in the English NHS (NHS White Paper, Feb 2021) (KONP)
The great GP surgery takeover: US giant seizes four practices in Camden (Camden New Journal)
Comments on the White Paper on Integrated Care Systems
Corporate Agenda for Integrated Care

Keep Our NHS Public are calling for widespread rejection of proposals from NHS England for legislation to entrench Integrated Care Systems. NHS England's consultation closes this Friday 8 January, and KONP asks for responses which include, in your own words, points adapted from these model responses. Please read the cover letter and summary briefing. In-depth analysis of the NHS England plans is here:
Legislative Proposals
Democratic Accountability
Social Care
Corporate Agenda for Integrated Care

BME London Landlords: Why we think you should say YES

NEU: Make Schools Safe
January school safety advice
Model letter to head teachers
Press Release 2 Jan

RMT Alstom Longsight Strike

RMT: no hesitation in taking strike action to deliver our members the pay rise they deserve
and in supporting national coordinated action to deliver pay justice for all key workers
PCS slams Chancellor for public sector pay freeze
Unite: Sunak’s ‘divide and rule’ on public sector pay ‘a body blow’
Unison: This cynical, divisive kick in the teeth
GMB: Chancellor delivers pay cut for workers who carried us through pandemic
TUC: The pay freeze for key workers is a bitter pill to swallow
NHS staff will be awarded a pay rise next year, confirms Sunak

ZeroCovid: Manchester 5 Dec

Background to NHS privatisation - a briefing for Merseyside MPs
Some current aspects of NHS privatisation

John Clegg 1950-2020 - People Not Profit - Nov 2020

Palestinian Solidarity with Jeremy Corbyn

Innova in Liverpool: what a positive test means

Short of a General Strike, How Can Labor Stop Trump From Stealing the Election? (The Nation)

Accused of antisemitism - expelled for being anti-Trident
Censored on the SWP TV channel
Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and Ken Livingstone (April 2017)

NEU: Circuit Breaker for Secondary Schools and Post-16
NEU: Merseyside calls for national union strategy to respond to Covid-19 escalation

Public Health England Interim Chief Exec and past IT cuts

Unlawful NHS mergers threaten Privatisation under cover of COVID
Letter to Councillors: Clinical Commissioning Groups merging for Integrated Care System

Gaza Covid-19 Outbreak

Gaza lockdown within the lockdown

photo: Ma'an News Agency

Gaza: 98 new cases of Corona were recorded, and the curve of the virus outbreak is escalating (Ma'an News - google translate)
Gaza: 446 new cases in community this week (World Health Organisation)
Before the community outbreak: “The situation is about to erupt” (Dr Mona El-Farra)
Corona, Gaza - 160,000 workers were affected, and losses amounted to 27 million dollars (Ma'an News - google translate)
Gaza: Curfew in Gaza extended until further notice (Ma'an News - google translate)
Gaza on the tenth day of the emergency: mounting casualties, an open sea and a warning of complacency (Ma'an News - google translate)

“Not a penny more to Serco - Give local teams the cash” — Liverpool photos and press release
We Own It - Serco demos

8th August NHS Pay Demos

Model Motion

UNISON calls for a £2,000 pay rise for all NHS workers (Nursing Notes)

		Liverpool 8 Aug 2020 click on images to enlarge

London
Leeds
Barnsley
Birmingham

The Liverpool demo is also supported by Liverpool University Hospitals Staff-side and Unison.
Lincs Unison is supporting a protest in Lincoln.

Clap, Slap, and Crap

Unison: Bring Back Outsourced Liverpool NHS Workers
Petition: Bring Liverpool NHS services back in-house!

Labour Party members seek legal challenge to ‘absurd’ disciplinary process

Free Mahmoud Nawajaa (BDS Movement)
1000 Israelis call for immediate release of Mahmoud Nawajaa (Boycott from Within)
e-Action: Free Mahmoud Nawajaa (PSC)
draft letter to FCO (PSC)

This is not charity – The JNF and the IDF
Jewish National Fund works hand in glove with Israeli military (Electronic Intifada)

Manchester TUC at KONP 4 July demo

Aintree Hospital rally after 4 July Liverpool Cavalcade

Photos, slogans and speeches for the 4 July Cavalcade Liverpool
Cavalcade for NHS amid “300 unnecessary Covid deaths in Liverpool”
Our NHS Deserves Better: 4-5 July nationwide

Israeli ‘Kneel on Neck’ and Minneapolis
US police departments under pressure to end training programmes with Israel (Middle East Eye)
Palestinian Americans draw stark comparisons of US and Israeli uses of force (Middle East Eye)
DEADLY EXCHANGE: The Dangerous Consequences of American Law Enforcement Trainings in Israel (Jewish Voice for Peace)
'Police Unity Tour': US officers in Israel for anniversary of 9/11 attacks (Middle East Eye)
With Whom are Many U.S. Police Departments Training? With a Chronic Human Rights Violator – Israel (Amnesty USA)

Liverpool medics fear track and trace at risk over 'unfair' migrant charges
NHS staff letter to Merseyside NHS Trusts: COVID-19 and NHS Charges
Video: End the Hostile Environment to Fight the Pandemic
Petition: Coronavirus: End the Hostile Environment to Fight the Pandemic
Merseyside NHS staff appeal: Stop Charging Migrants for Healthcare

The whole world is watching Oakland
JuneteenthSPT
ANTI-RACISM WORK STOP JUNE 19 2020 ILWU
Video: ILWU Local 10 & 34 Leaders Speak Out On
Juneteenth & Fight Against Racism & Worker Action

George Floyd murder: ILWU letter to Minnesota Governor

Covid-19 Shambles: 11 Reasons why “guided by science” claim is lie

NEU: Coronavirus : vulnerable workers checklist
NEU: Open Schools When It's Safe

International Workers’ Memorial Day
Healthworkers Call for Action on Workers Memorial Day

Medics to stage vigil on Tuesday for staff who have died of Covid-19 at hospital which saved Boris Johnson’s life (London News Online)

Section 44: the right to refuse unsafe work

RCN: Guidance for members: Refusal to treat due to lack of adequate PPE during the pandemic
Unite statement on coronavirus – and its impact on paramedics and other NHS workers and social care staff
Unison Gen Sec Blog: your right to be safe from harm at work
TUC: Protecting workers’ safety in the coronavirus pandemic

Coronavirus: End the Hostile Environment to Fight the Pandemic (open letter)

The COVID-19 pandemic: we need urgent measures to protect people and mend the cracks in our health, social protection and migration systems (PICUM)

International Working People's Day May 1, 2020 Programming

Let Cruise Workers Off Death Ships Now!

Joint Palestinian, aid agencies, and Israeli human rights organisations statement on COVID-19
World Health Day: PCHR Calls for Providing Medical Supplies and COVID-19 Testing Kits to Gaza Strip’s Health Sector

Trusts advise widespread use of PPE as staff ‘refuse to see patients’ (HSJ)
Covid-19: why is the UK government ignoring WHO’s advice? (BMJ)
COVID-19 and the NHS—“a national scandal” (Richard Horton, The Lancet)
6 Demands from NHS staff to help us tackle Coronavirus

COVID-19: UK Lockdown Forecast

COVID-19 Global Cases

Dock Workers Threaten to Shut Down Ports After Risking Coronavirus Exposure

Ireland declares safe for all migrants to access essential services
People's Health Movement Korea statement on COVID-19

Cleaners in coronavirus-hit London hospital walk out after private contractor fails to pay wages (GMB)
Cleaning staff at Lewisham hospital strike over pay

The entire UK may come to regret Sunak’s inadequate coronavirus budget (OurNHS)

Winter Crisis: Demo 12-1:30 Thur 13 Feb Royal Liverpool Hospital (KONP)

15,500 nurses strike in Northern Ireland over pay and patient safety (BBC)
Around 9,000 nurses take strike action in NI (Belfast Telegraph)

Kent stroke unit closures: Day 1 in Court (Save Our NHS Kent)
Kent stroke unit closures: Day 2 in Court (Save Our NHS Kent)

We reject the Tory “Long Term Plan” for the NHS (KONP)
The Tories' NHS Lies (Tribune)
Tory NHS Plans... and Ours (KONP Merseyside)

Charges and the ‘Hostile Environment’ in the NHS
(as published in The Lowdown Number 13 - 11 November 2019)

Merseyside Pensioners Association: Anti-Labour smears of Jewish Chronicle exposed by Independent Press Standards Organisation (video)
Press Gazette: Jewish Chronicle rapped by IPSO over lack of evidence for claims about Labour activist
Exclusive: The Riverside scandal – Louise Ellman and the war on Riverside Labour Party (JVL)

Petition – Labour: reinstate Asa Winstanley’s press pass for Labour Party conference now (Change.org)
Journalists call on Labour to restore Asa Winstanley’s press pass (Electronic Intifada)
Labour’s poor excuses for revoking Asa Winstanley’s press pass (Electronic Intifada)
Labour Party revokes Electronic Intifada press pass (Electronic Intifada)

Responding to Labour’s statement “No Place for Antisemitism” (Liverpool Friends of Palestine)

Manchester Science Museum to strike over pay (Prospect)

Bradford Hospitals 300 staff on 2 week strike against privatisation plan (Unison)
Bradford Hospitals Strike: petition (Change.org)

Outsourced NHS staff in Blackpool and St Helens strike over pay and conditions (Unison)
ITV report on Whiston and Blackpool strikes (ITV)

Trade negotiations and the triple trouble for health and the NHS (Our NHS - Open Democracy)
The NHS is already on the table. But here's exactly how Trump wants to sharpen the knives (Our NHS - Open Democracy)

Panorama: How the BBC responds to complaints
Labour Friends of Israel denies funding from Israeli spy (Electronic Intifada)
Critical questions for the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM)

John Ware (BBC Panorama 10.7.19): “Ken Livingstone has a history of false claims that Jews were in cahoots with Nazis,
in establishing Israel... In fact, what historians know, is that this is a gross misreading of history.”
Rubbish. The history of relationships between the Nazi party and Zionism in Germany during the 1930s
was rewritten and dismissed by John Ware in a throwaway line. But it is real, and historians know it.
Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and Ken Livingstone (April 2017)

The NHS and Trade and Investment Agreements - Trump's Fake Reassurances
Dr Sonia Adesara vs IEA on Trump plans for NHS

UAF keeps Trump Plan for Palestine off the agenda at Liverpool protest

Victory for Princess Alexandra domestics on eve of strike (Unison)
Cornerstone update: UNISON to meet members as management move to impose rejected pay offer

Health privatiser Circle vs NHS in Court hearing
Demo: Wed 15th May at 12 30
7 Rolls Buildings, Fetter Ln, Holborn, London EC4A 1NL
(round the corner from the main Royal Courts of Justice building)

Nottingham KONP: Crunch week for the NHS in Nottingham!
Unison Nottingham University Hospitals & Allied Services: Appalled at 'scandalous' behaviour of Circle (2 May 2019)
Circle launches fresh court challenge over lost contract (The Lowdown)

Unison: AFG workers set to begin seven-day strike
Petition: Care at Night, Pay us right!
GoFundMe Strike Fund Appeal
AFG strike rally Fri 10 May 12 noon St Georges, Liverpool

A statement from Royal Liverpool healthcare workers on healthcare charges

John Davies responds to slanders in the Jewish Chronicle, after his suspension from the Labour Party:
The Slanderer’s Road to Socialism

Liverpool Women’s Hospital Unison Strike
Liverpool Women’s Hospital staff escalate strike over unfair pay (Unison)

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Unpublished letters: Anti-racism, Palestine, and Liverpool MPs

Cheadle Teachers to Strike 26 Feb (NASUWT)

Liverpool healthworkers meeting on NHS charges for migrants

RMT Northern Rail members standing solid
RMT Arriva Northern Strike Appeal
RMT response to Chris Grayling
RMT: Keep the Guard on the Train

We did it! G4S dumped from asylum housing contract

Join Twitter Storm for Mumia Abu-Jamal

Urgent Care notes (KONP Merseyside)

Reports from Patients Not Passports Liverpool 3 Nov
Leaflet: Patients Not Passports Liverpool 3 Nov
Upfront NHS charges one year on - 6 reasons why they harm us all (Ed Jones, OurNHS)

Royal Liverpool PFI collapse vindicates KONP campaign

NHS England Rationing Plan flouts NICE guidance

Stalled Royal Liverpool Hospital to be publicly funded (BBC)

Palestine leaflets at Labour Party Conference
Zionism: A Colonial Movement
Solidarity with Palestine: Boycott Israeli Apartheid

Palestinian civil society statement: Labour Party Must Reject Biased IHRA Definition That Stifles Advocacy For Palestinian Rights

Campaign forces Israeli Zim Lines to halt shipments to Tunisia
Israel-linked cargo ship sailing into Tunisian storm (Electronic Intifada)

Anti-Semitism, Freedom of Speech, and the IHRA
Statement from Wavertree and Riverside constituents

Swedish Dockworkers Letter re Mumia Abu-Jamal

NHS pay deal row intensifies as nurses call for union leader to quit (Caroline Molloy, Open Democracy)
NHS staff discover they will get hundreds of pounds less than many thought (Caroline Molloy, Open Democracy)
The NHS Pay Deal, Again

Wigan NHS joint union strike against Subco

Wigan victory but questions remain over details of deal (Wigan Today)

UNISON: Reckless decision prompts third round of strike action at NHS Trust
UNISON escalates its campaign against NHS outsourcing
UNISON Parliamentary Briefing on Wholly Owned Subsidiaries

Unite: North West NHS strikes stepped up over outsourcing plans

Report from Wigan strike meeting

Plans for hospital firm get the green light (Wigan Today)

Demo 1pm 7 June Town Hall Liverpool
Liverpool Health and Wellbeing Board: Reject the Integrated Care System
Reject private sector NHS risk-share plan (pdf)
Integrated Care Systems and Liverpool

LIVE: 55 Palestinians killed in Gaza border protests, over 2,700 injured (Ma'an News)
Palestinian medics, journalists among dead and injured in Gaza (Ma'an News)
South Africa withdraws Israel Ambassador with immediate effect (BDS South Africa)
B'Tselem: Firing live ammunition at Gaza demonstrators shows appalling indifference to human life

Palestinians have seen Trump 'deal of the century', and want nothing of it (Middle East Eye 30 April)

Israel amassing its forces ahead of Nakba protests (Electronic Intifada)

Entangled: Graphene, Arms, Israel and the University of Manchester

Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and Ken Livingstone (April 2017)
Snipers ordered to shoot children, Israeli general confirms (Electronic Intifada)
Leaflet: Israel guns down unarmed Gaza protests
Sorry Commander, I cannot shoot
B'Tselem: Sorry Commander, I cannot shoot
B'Tselem: Why Israeli soldiers must refuse to fire at unarmed Palestinian protesters
Reporting from Gaza
Guardian Letters on Gaza
Palestine: March of Return
Antisemitism: another agenda?

McStrike!
McStrike - Manchester 1st May - NWTUC support

The Deceptive NHS Pay Offer
Why NHS staff should #DitchTheDeal and reject the government pay offer (OurNHS)
YouTube: Karen Reissmann - Why healthworkers should reject the pay offer

Support Unite Fujitsu Strikers — 3 events
Strikes continue at Fujitsu Manchester — your support is appreciated

If Macron starts to wobble, the whole show collapses (Links)

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UCU Liverpool twitter feed
Michael Mair – Fateful (Dis)Junctures, An Update on the UK’s University Strike
UCU/UUK agreement rejected - strike to continue
Open Letter rejecting the UCU/UUK agreement at ACAS
University of Liverpool UCU response to the pensions proposal

photos: Tom Bimpson, UCU North-West Region Retired Members Branch Sec.

UCU strikers in the CASA (sacked Liverpool Dockers venue) 23 Feb 2018 — Day 2

Darren Ireland, RMT North West regional organiser, greets UCU strikers and reports on the Merseyrail and Northern strikes to defend rail safety and the guards posts

Strike continues as ACAS talks to begin 5 Mar
UCU - Strike Live!
Newcastle vice chancellor backs striking lecturers
Video: Defend Our Pensions! UCU Liverpool President Jo McNeill (Labor Video Project)
UCU pensions strike
UCU: FAQs on strike
UCU Liverpool blog
Why we strike (LRB)

Gloucestershire SubCo: Joint Trade Union statement
Gloucestershire SubCo: Campaign statement
Gloucestershire SubCo: Gloucestershire Hospitals Board statement
Subsidiary Companies: walking into a trap for the NHS? (OurNHS)

Accountable Care, Integrated Care, and Privatisation

Sam Semoff  obit and audio

Mumia: new legal moves, but a reignited international mobilization is critical for victory (Counterpunch)
Flashback: 1999 ILWU strike for Mumia (YouTube)

Flashback 1980: What Future for Zimbabwe Now?

Accountable Care: Ribera Salud hospital fined €150,000 for exposing workers to carcinogens

Barcelona General Strike - Reel News video reports
San Francisco Bay Area transport workers message to La Coordinadora
Coordinadora press statement 3 October (in Catalan)
Reel News email re new videos

These Dockworkers Just Showed the Labor Movement How to Shut Down Fascists (Peter Cole, In These Times)
Dockers will turn out to stop fascists in San Francisco

Sustainability and Transformation Plans, and Accountable Care (Socialist Health Association)

Accountable to Whom?

From STPs to Accountable Care Organisations

Automation: Class War on the Waterfront

Video on G4S: The Asylum Market (Brass Moustache)
more G4S

Want to stop Trump?
Take a Page From These Dockworkers, and Stop Work (In These Times)

Dockers & Drivers Demo North West Unite leaflet photos: Tommy Molloy, ITF click on images to enlarge

Friday 13 Jan protest at Seaforth dock, Liverpool, over lack of facilities for lorry drivers and dock workers at the Peel Ports site. Unite has now organised 270 of the current 300 strong workforce on Liverpool docks.

Dec. 27, 2016 — Members, officers and retiree of ILWU Local 10 present British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn with a poster from 2008 ILWU West Coast Ports shutdown against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Corbyn was a keynote speaker in 2007 at Local 10's Anti-war Conference which led to the first-ever trade union strike in the U.S. against imperialist war.

Left to right: Andre Dawkins, Ed Ferris, Jeremy Corbyn, Derrick Muhammad, Jack Heyman

RMT: Background to Southern Rail dispute
ASLEF comment as Appeal Court upholds industrial action rights
RMT responds to Chris Grayling
RMT letter to Chief Inspector of Railways

Action for Rail: National Day of Action 3 Jan

CWU: PO strike 3 stronger than ever

British Airways cabin crew set to strike over poverty pay levels and broken promises

Unite: Fujitsu strike for pay, pensions and job security: talks, Manchester rally 9 Dec
Fujitsu Manchester strike day #7

Unison:A libel threat, a database and a “cut and paste” email – all to help Dave Prentis win? (Alex Varley Winter / David Hencke)
Unison election: Now Electoral Reform Services on trial (David Hencke)
Unison: Union Democracy on Trial (David Hencke)

Ballot Firm Defends Unison Leader Poll (Morning Star)
Unison: Defeated Candidates Launch Vote Result Challenge (Morning Star)

San Francisco Labor Council resolution on hate fliers
US Bill to Punish Students Who Criticize Israel
Free Speech on Israel
PSC: New Statesman dispute resolved
G4S ditches Israel businesses (Electronic Intifada)

Stop the STP: NHS cuts and privatisation plans

From STPs to Accountable Care Organisations

Liverpool Women’s Hospital: response to the clinical case for change

STP: Shropshire plan on hold after public debate

Oxford City Council demands full disclosure and consultation (adopted as amended)

Letter to Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson (KONP M'side)
Letter to Liverpool CCG Governing Body (KONP M'side)
Mayoral statement adopted by Liverpool Health and Wellbeing Board
Mayor Anderson attacks controversial NHS cuts plan (Liverpool Echo)

Video: Demo at Liverpool Health and Wellbeing Board
Liverpool CCG hiding the figures for NHS cuts plan (KONP M'side)

Analysis of the Cheshire & Merseyside STP (KONP M'side)

Campaigners demand NHS cuts plan be frozen (Keep Our NHS Public Merseyside, Defend Our NHS Wirral & Cheshire)
Sefton Council deplores STP plan
Stop the STP! (Keep Our NHS Public Merseyside)

NHS: Secret STP plans for Cheshire and Merseyside

Conference statement: Challenging the STP plans (Health Campaigns Together conference 17 Sept)
STPs: cuts dressed up in wishful thinking (John Lister)
Devo Manc, STPs and cuts in Gtr Manchester (Caroline Bedale)

Pay: London Metropolitan University Unison strike ballot
Background to the London Met pay dispute

video: Jackie Walker at LRC fringe meeting for TUC Congress 2016

It's high time for mass mobilization to free Mumia! (Jack Heyman and Eric Clanton, Counterpunch)

BFAWU: support for Corbyn and Ronnie Draper

Manchester Deserves Better Mental Health Services campaign
Manchester Deserves Better Mental Health Services petition (pdf)

Brexit or no Brexit - trade deals still threaten our NHS (Our NHS)

Racism in the NHS: Don't let the unspeakable become acceptable (OurNHS)

Manchester victory against Mental Health Cuts
Plan to cut £1.5m worth of mental health services is axed in extraordinary u-turn (M.E.N.)
Manchester Users Network
Unison branch lobby of Mental Health Trust Board 31 Mar 2016
Unison Manchester Community & Mental Health Branch response to Consultation (Feb 2016)
Manchester Deserves Better

Len McLuskey speech to Unite Policy Conference

Fawley oil refinery strike over ‘half pay’ for foreign workers (Unite)

messages of support to malcolm.bonnett@unitetheunion.org or 07958624506
Migrant workers strike because they get half the pay of others (Socialist Worker)

Brexit: John Pilger is wrong
A Blow for Peace and Democracy: Why the British said No to Europe (John Pilger, Counterpunch)

Junior Doctors strike dates

Junior Doctors reject new contract by 58% - 42% on a 68% turnout

National Union of Teachers strike 5 July

Manchester TUC letter to Manchester Council Leader
Defend Jeremy Corbyn - Manchester TUC 1 July 18:00 Piccadilly Gardens
PCS: NEC statement on the EU result and political campaigning (30 Jun)
Joint Union statement on Labour Party (30 June)
PCS: Statement on EU referendum and Jeremy Corbyn (27 June)
GMB condemns wave of hate-crime (27 June)
Unison: Tories are divided, Labour should not be (27 June)
FBU: Stop the coup against Corbyn (26 June)
RMT statement in support of Jeremy Corbyn (26 June)
Union leaders statement backing Corbyn (24 June)

Brexit disaster, but a glimmer of hope

Chakrabarti Inquiry published
Free Speech on Israel rejects demonisation of Jeremy Corbyn

video: Ken Livingstone on Hitler and Zionism - Historian Lenni Brenner interviewed

Zionism's Record during the Holocaust

The message behind Labour’s anti-Semitism witch hunt

Antisemitism and the Labour Party: Submission to the Chakrabarti Inquiry from members of Riverside CLP, Liverpool

Union Members Struggle for a Democratic Debate on Palestine: Statement on UAW 2865 BDS Vote Nullification

Free Speech on Israel: Liverpool 14 June

Free Speech on Israel

Trump cites Israel as role model for racial profiling (Ha'aretz, Reuters, Jewish Insider)

Reject the contract — junior doctors and our patients can do better (OurNHS)

BMA website

The Heart of the Matter: Speech to Junior Doctors demo, Royal Liverpool Hospital

NHS Devolution Dangers: video and documents

BMA rejects imposition of Junior Doctors contract
“We will consider all options open to us”

Why are junior doctors really striking? (video, OurNHS)
High fives, cakes and flying bicycle pickets — public support rides high for the doctors strike (OurNHS)

Pill Cost Pennies-Drugs Cost Lives! Protest Of Gilead & JP Morgan Profiteering Meeting (Labor Video)
In America’s Prisons: Mumia and the Nightmarish Hepatitis C Epidemic (Counterpunch)

Save NHS Bursaries: Nurses, Midwives, Allied Health Professionals
Sat 9 Jan, St Thomas' Hospital, London

Junior Doctors strikes: BMA statement and correspondence, picketing map, leaflet (BMA)
How YOU can support the Junior Doctors (OurNHS)

Emergency care only between 8am on Tuesday, 12 January and 8am on Wednesday, 13 January (24 hours)
Emergency care only between 8am on Tuesday, 26 January and 8am on Thursday, 28 January (48 hours)
Full withdrawal of labour between 8am and 5pm on Wednesday, 10 February

The NHS is headed for a Devolution Iceberg: Liverpool (OurNHS)
London NHS devolution - "It's obvious to all but gullible, power-grabbing councillors - this is about dumping blame for closures" (OurNHS)

Legal challenge to Unison General Secretary election
Petition to Unison President Wendy Nicholls
Thanks for taking the time to campaign and vote
Not the end of the road
#Unisongate: Why we must demand an independent Inquiry; Complaint to the Returning Officer
Comment on misuse of UNISON resources
‘Damning evidence’ of abuse of union resources by paid officials in Unison’s general secretary election

Junior Doctors strikes suspended
To Our Fellow NHS Workers, Trade Unionists and Campaigners

Junior doctors vote overwhelmingly for industrial action as BMA approaches Acas (BMA)
Junior doctors vote yes to strike, yes for our patients, yes for the future of our NHS (OurNHS)
Hunt’s incompetence driving docs strike vote (KONP)

BMA sets dates for Junior Doctors strikes, pending ballot result

Emergency care only — from 8am, Tuesday 1 December to 8am Wednesday 2 December
Full walk out — from 8am to 5pm, Tuesday 8 December
Full walk out — from 8am to 5pm, Wednesday 16 December

Junior Doctors are fighting for the NHS's life, as Tories try to silence all healthworkers
Letter to Junior Doctors from Barts Clinical Director for Orthopaedics & Trauma (p1)
Letter to Junior Doctors (p2)

UNISON: Drop the Trade Union Bill
RMT: Right to Strike
Trade Union Bill represents major attack on civil liberties in the UK (Liberty, BIHR, and Amnesty International)
The Trade Union Bill is an attack on the NHS (Our NHS)

Get Your Bombs Off Our Lawn
The Arms Industry and the University of Liverpool

Transformative Research Legacies: Joseph Rotblat 8 June University of Liverpool

Dear Elbit workers

4 Oct: TUC demonstration at Conservative Party Conference
2 Nov: TUC mass lobby of Parliament – protect the right to strike

Healthy Liverpool: Gambling with Our Future

Remembering Bill Hunter

Our Health –
or Their Wealth?

Healthy Liverpool: Gambling with Our Future

100 hours to save the NHS: Labour's Manifesto analysed (Open Democracy)

Bring Back the NHS

Keep Our NHS Public: Demands for the NHS

Virgin on Insanity
Marathon Whitewash of the NHS Grab (KONP leaflet at London Marathon)

Sign Letter to Support the NHS Reinstatement Bill

KONP protest Labour's NHS "profits cap"
as Ed Miliband speaks in Manchester 21 Apr 11am MMU

Campaign for the NHS Reinstatement Bill
SNP backs NHS Reinstatement Bill
MPs table NHS Reinstatement Bill

Sacked union leader Charlotte Munro reinstated
Charlotte Munro Reinstated by Barts Trust

Mid-Yorks Trust breaches Agenda for Change and collective agreement
flashback: Mid-Yorks 3 day strike against downbanding and pay cuts
2012 background: Mid-Yorks strike report and donations

Reclaim the Union: for a fighting, democratic Unison

DevoManc Demo against NHS Devolution 29 March Manchester
Tory Spending Devolution to Manchester
Spells Disaster for NHS (John Lister, Morning Star)
MANCHESTER - The Birth & Death of the NHS
Gtr Manchester KONP opposes DevoManc
Gtr Manchester Test Bed for Five Year Forward Plan to Destroy NHS
GREATER MANCHESTER HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE DEVOLUTION Memorandum of Understanding

NHS Pay: UNISON Health Exec March 3rd 2015

NHS Pay: Reject this Rotten Offer! (Health Worker)
Pay Offer Spreadsheet

The Destruction of Community Based GP Services

999 Convention for the NHS 28 Feb
London NHS Rally 10 March
People's Convention for the NHS 11 Apr

Today in the Commons - the Efford Bill (Peter Roderick)
Efford's "Save the NHS" Bill - does it do what it says on the tin? (Caroline Molloy, OurNHS)
Efford Bill: a framework in which privatisation can flourish

Royal Liverpool PFI: A Threat to Our Future

NHS Charges: First they came for the Immigrants

NHS: Three to Four days

The people of Madrid resist the health invaders!
The White Tide for Health in Spain

London demo report and video

Royal Liverpool: New Hospital Yes, PFI No!
Trust defends PFI plan for ‘best hospital in country’

Princes Park Health Centre (pdf)
Liverpool PCT broke procedure in handing GP surgeries to SSP Health

Peterborough TUC appeal re PFI
Peterborough: Trust’s £2bn PFI fiasco could wreck our NHS!
Liverpool: Choose NHS - Scrap PFI

No to PFI - Royal Liverpool hospital demo 6 Dec

Keep Our NHS Public letter to Clinical Commissioning Groups

South-West pay cartel demo 1 Dec

Bolton NHS FT faces £38million cuts

Mid-Yorks 3 day strike against downbanding and pay cuts
Mid-Yorks strike report and donations

Yunus Bakhsh: The fighter who refused to go down (Socialist Worker)

The attack on Agenda for Change: Heads of Agreement
Future of AfC: Unison consultation in South East region
10 reasons to reject NHS Pay Cuts

Open letter: Defend AFC

NHS Yes... PFI No! (PDF)

Mid-Yorkshire hospitals strike against downbandings: Wakefield rally Thurs 1 Nov
Mid-Yorkshire admin strike 88% YES vote

Victory for Yunus Bakhsh as Trust pays dearly for sacking

Stroud Victory: A landmark triumph for people power!

London Hospitals

Five demonstrations to save London’s hospitals

Stop A&E closures: March to Ealing hospital 15 Sept
Save Central Middlesex Hospital: Demo 15 Sept
Ealing Hospital and ICO Staff Side handout
Hospitals Petition Form
Ealing Hospital Unite Newsletter Aug 2012 (download 4 Mb Publisher document)
Toxicology unit at St Thomas’s Hospital threatened with closure

Mid-Yorkshire Hospital UNISON Admin & Clerical staff dispute

Royal Free Radiographers strike as private patients get priority

Unite: Colindale Blood Transfusion faces strike

Report from Unison Health Service Group Executive AGM
Unison North West Regional health committee 16/7/12

Anger as Commissioning Groups rubber-stamp massive hospital cuts in West London (Health Emergency)

UNISON calls for ‘Facts not Fiction’ on South West NHS pay
Leaked document reveals Pay Cartel to undermine Agenda for Change
Derriford Unison petition Plymouth NHS Trust

Oxfordshire PCT stewards reject Agenda for Change retreat

Gov’t moving to impose NHS pensions offer

South London Hospitals threat: KONP London 28 June

Will you still need me... when I'm 64
Animation: Trafford General 7 July 2012
http://savetraffordgeneral.com

Going South with the PFI (Health Policy Insight)

NHS Birmingham strike over pay cuts

Keep GloucestershireÂ’s NHS Public: Stroud 16 June
Keep Our NHS Public AGM + National Conference 23 June

Oxfordshire PCT Stewards’ newsletter

Doctors to take industrial action over pensions 21 June (BMA)

NHS GMB members 96.5% vote to reject pensions deal, on 30% turnout

NHS strike 10 May: Unite events and picket lines
NHS strike 10 May: London map

Unison NHS Pensions Ballot: Report from Health Service Exec
Comments on Unison NHS Pensions Ballot
Unison NHS Pensions Ballot, Unite-PCS-UCU strike 10 May
Social Enterprises, Pensions Ballot, and PFI

Unite healthworkers to step up pensionsÂ’ fight on 10 May
PCS civil servants pensions action starts with strike 10 May

Pensions: Building for strike action
Report from Unison Health Exec 4 April 2012
Democracy in Unison
NHS Pensions: Report of Unison Health Service Exec 21 March

Serco preferred bidder for Suffolk community services

Health Bill passes — Campaign Begins

Greek healthworkers strike
Update from the Greek hospital under workers control
Greek hospital now under workers’ control

NHS bill: keeping parliament in dark is a constitutional outrage
Lords asked to consider Risk Register
Too Risky to tell the Public?
Faculty of Public Health Risk Assessment of Health Bill

video: Save Our NHS rally

580,000 and rising: please sign by Monday morning and forward to contacts
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/Save-our-NHS

Medics to challenge Con-Dem MPs at next election

Oxford sit-in protests Health Bill

Corporate Watch investigate tax-dodging private health firms

NHS Consultants appeal to the Queen

Tomorrow’s Doctors write to Prime Minister

NHS public meeting Hackney 29 March

Vote in 38 degrees poll: Organise a huge march against the Health & Social Care Bill

TUC Save Our NHS rally: Len McCluskey
TUC Save Our NHS rally: John Lister
video: BMA feeder march to TUC rally
TUC Save Our NHS rally: Alex Scott-Samuel

TUC rally Save Our NHS 7 March London

United statement from BMA, RCM, RCN, CSP

The Lib Dem conference and the NHS Bill

Lib-Dem conference: NHS campaigners comment

“Constitutional Outrage” if Bill passed without Parliament examining risks

Opposition debate 13 Mar, Whitehall Demo 17 Mar, BMJ article

Keep Our NHS Public Gateshead leafletting
TUC Gateshead Rally for the Alternative

Swindon 5 day strike starts International Women's Day 8 Mar
Swindon hospital strike against Carillion bullies
Carillion: 12 more days of strike (GMB)
Video: GMB Swindon hospital strike - We will win against racist bullies (Union News)

Pensions: UNITE Consultative Vote and recommendation
Pensions: UNISON Health Exec postpones decision on Heads of Agreement

photo: Tom Bimpson
Keep Our NHS Public Merseyside press release 1 Mar
Demonstration against privatisation of the NHS: 3 Mar
A4 poster for Liverpool NHS demo 3 March

Save Our NHS Rally – Manchester Saturday 3 March

Indian nurses strike (libcom.org)

Liverpool doctor John Ashton “outraged” by disciplinary hearing over Health Bill criticism

"Summit of the Uninvited" Protest Downing St. Mon 20 Feb

e-petition: Drop the Health Bill

OccupyHarvard & OccupyBoston engulf private health lobbyist

Lobby & Pressurise Simon Hughes To Stop NHS Privatisation 25 Feb
London lobbies and demos against the Health Bill
e-petition: RCN call a national demo against the Health Bill

John Lister: Health and Social Care Bill - Unpicking the spin
Lord David Owen: Still Fatally Flawed – the Proposed NHS for England
The consequences of abandoning the Health and Social Care Bill (BMJ)

Fighting for Pensions - Against NHS Privatisation

RCGP calls for PM to withdraw Health Bill
BMA response to RCGP call to scrap Health Bill
Royal College of Midwives calls for Bill to be shelved
Chartered Society of Physiotherapists says Withdraw health bill now

Whiston and St Helens Hospitals to be bailed out of PFI debts by Government £1.5bn fund

Royal Liverpool Joint Staff-side demo against PFI and Private Patients Permit 27 Jan

UNISON Oxfordshire Health requests Special Conference of Health Service Group

Adrian O'Malley: Report from UNISON Health Exec 10 Jan 2012
Karen Reissmann: Report from UNISON Health Exec 10 Jan 2012

UNISON South-East region debates NHS Pensions

Unison Oxfordshire Health rejects Heads of Agreement
UNISON Oxfordshire Health Branch to debate pensions offer

UNITE: Health Sector National Committee dump pensions offer
Unite unanimously rejects NHS pensions offer

The assault on universalism: how to destroy the welfare state (BMJ)

Carillion PFI: Swindon NHS Ballot

Why the Gov’t won’t publish NHS Bill Risk Register

Why BMA is opposing the Health and Social Care Bill
BMA briefing to Peers on opposing whole Bill

30 November: Liverpool photoreport
30 November: Leicester, Cambridge, Bristol

Fighting for Pensions - Against NHS Privatisation

Report from UNISON Health Service Exec 22 Nov 2011

‘Proof’ government plans to privatise the NHS

Wigan & Leigh NHS campaigns to support 30th November strike

UNITE: 75% vote for pensions strike
Society of Radiographers: Industrial action supported by 8504 votes to 1648
Physiotherapists overwhelming vote for action

Circle Healthcare plans Manchester NHS gateway hospital

UNISON Extraordinary Health Executive 3.11.11 One item - Pensions

NHS pensions: towards 30 Nov

Yunus Bakhsh: North East health bosses criticised by employment judge

Blood Money campaign scores major victory

Outside and inside the RCGP conference, with Andrew Lansley

Questions for the Lords
Public Health doctors call for Bill to be scrapped
BMA renews call for Bill to be withdrawn

NMC ‘clarifies’ that official industrial action does not breach nursing code

Manchester 3 Oct Tory Party Conf

NHS Campaigners press Lords to challenge LansleyÂ’s flawed Health Bill

Block the Bridge, Block the Bill (YouTube)
UK Uncut to shut down Westminster Bridge in protest over NHS bill

Grasp the nettle now - before itÂ’s too late (John Lister, Morning Star)

Legal Action Launched to Stop NHS Social Enterprise Plans

Defend NHS Pensions

NHS: Prepare for Battle

Letter in The Times from over 400 doctors
Letter from Prof Harry Keen to a Conservative MP

Royal Liverpool demo to defend the NHS
MPs who vote for Andrew LansleyÂ’s Bill will destroy the NHS

Unhealthy and Unwise: Press Conf to launch dossier on Health Bill 6 Sept House of Commons

Demonstrate Tues 6 Sept Royal Liverpool hospital: Health Bill, Cuts, Pensions
Flyer for Joint Trade Union rally Royal Liverpool hospital Tues 6 Sept (Word)
London protests 7 Sept
Grim Reaper returns to Atherton 3 Sept

Liberating the NHS: source and destination of the Lansley reform (pdf)

Royal Liverpool Hosp Consultant: Health Bill will undermine principles of NHS
20 Liverpool doctors: Health Bill will cause irreparable harm

UNISON: halt the Health and Social Care Bill

GP petition against Health Bill

Stop Closure of Manchester Mental Health Unit 25 Aug

Keep Our NHS Public, Toxteth 24 Aug

Keep Our NHS Public - London 31 Aug
Kill Lansley's NHS Bill (Updated)
Video: EMERGENCY!: The Battle to Save the NHS (Reel News)

Save OUR Maternity Services at Fairfield General Hospital, Bury

UNISON Oxfordshire Health - Pensions Q&A

Save Royal Alexandra Hospital Kids Ward

NHS ‘Grim Reaper’ protest in Wigan

Health Bill: Letter to Shirley Williams

RCGP: Health bill should be amended again or withdrawn (Pulse Today)

BMA prepares to call on MPs to derail health bill (Pulse Today)
BMA rejects Health and Social Care Bill

Sir Roger Boyle: “It is horrific that the NHS’s future is threatened” (Independent)

Is competition law bad for patients? (BMJ)

UNISON North-West Regional Health Committee report
UNISON Health Service Exec report

The NHS needs reform and accountability - not opening up of the market
What patient choice will mean in practice

Protest Andrew Lansley Manchester 7 July

NHS Birthday London demo report

Celebrate and Defend the NHS: KONP Merseyside leaflet

Celebrate and Defend the NHS - London demo 5 July
NHS birthday demo 12-2 Tues 5 July Royal Liverpool Hosp
Celebrate and Defend the NHS - Vote down the Health Bill!

Bury the Bill! (BMJ Editorial)

BMA members defy leadership to call for health bill to be scrapped (Pulse)

Briefing on the Health Bill amendments - Still Dark (SHA)

Weakening the Sec of State’s responsibility - write to Scrutiny!

Defend Our NHS - transcript of Liverpool public meeting
Liverpool TUC, Royal Liv & B'green Hosps Joint Staff-side, Keep Our NHS Public: 22 June (PDF)

Lansley clings to Any Qualified Provider (False Economy)
Allyson Pollock: A return to pre-NHS fear (Guardian)

Saving the NHS: the fight goes on

Some comments on the Gov't response to NHS Future Forum

Scrap the Health & Social Care Bill
Keep Our NHS Public - Wigan 20 June

The NHS we need and deserve

Letter to Lansley: a plan without evidence

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South Africa

G4S in South Africa: Mangaung prison is a private hell
G4S in South Africa: State seizes bedlam-riven Bloem prison

Who benefits as COSATU suspends Vavi?

Letters of support for Wits students charged over Israel protest

MaziBuko Jara From South Africa Reports On Marikana Miner's Struggle

The Strike Wave and New Workers’ Organisations (SACSIS)

Call to Cosatu workers to unite with striking mineworkers (DLF)
Police disperse striking miners protest at Cosatu rally

Marikana massacre inquiry reveals Ramaphosa email on eve of massacre
Kumba miners strike committee statement

Marikana prequel: NUM and the murders that started it all (Jared Sacks)
Marikana massacre: a turning point (Martin Legassick)
Mine workers hope lies in mass action (Mail & Guardian)

Neville Alexander

COSATU outrage at charges against miners
NPA withdraws charges
NPA defends charges

Lonmin: ICTUR letter to Jacob Zuma
In memory of our fallen African brothers in Marikana
Lonmin: the questions that need answers

Lonmin strikers vow to defy dismissal threat (Mail & Guardian)
Lonmin video(Mail & Guardian)
Lonmin threatens mass dismissals
Lonmin’s Burning: industrial and political background as police shoot miners

More South Africa coverage

Historic Landslide BDS Vote by Grad Student Union at University of California (Labor for Palestine)
University of California Labor Union Makes History with BDS Vote (Tikkun)
IWW supports BDS (Labor for Palestine)

Response to Greg Dropkin (Jack Heyman)

Reply to Jack Heyman: Setting the record straight (Greg Dropkin)

Jack Heyman: Fighting Zionist Oppression – For Workers Action or BDS?

BDS: reply to Jack Heyman (Greg Dropkin)
How Protests Against Israeli Bombing of Gaza Stopped Zim Ships (Jack Heyman, Counterpunch)

ZIM Beijing skips Oakland, heading West across the Pacific
Last reported at 2014-Oct-27 20:00 UTC. Time now 2014-Oct-30 08:11 UTC. Position N 27°36' W 144°18'.Sailwx tracker

The American Resistance to Israel (Paul Larudee, Dissident Voice)
Why we are blocking the boat (Mondoweiss)
Stop ZIM Action Committee

see also Docks

Palestinian Civil Society Salutes California Dockworkers, Endorses their “Block-the-Boat” BDS Action
Transport Workers Solidarity Committee response to ILWU International on ZIM protests
Liverpool Friends of Palestine message to ILWU Local 10 and Oakland/SF activists
Zionist Organization of America head calls for arrest of Block the Boat protesters
Liverpool dockers solidarity message to ILWU Local 10
Stop ZIM Action Committee solidarity message to ILWU Local 10
Zim Shanghai leaves Oakland without unloading
Palestinian Civil Society Salutes California Dockworkers
Bay Area activists again prevent unloading of Israeli ship (Electronic Intifada)
Oakland action continues against Zim Shanghai 27 Sept
Protesters picket another Zim vessel in Oakland (JOC 27 Sept)

The unpublicized impact of a successful BDS action
Video: ILWU Rank and File Back Picket Of Zim ship Piraeus At Port Of Oakland
Letter from Barcelona Coordinadora to ILWU Locals 10 & 34
Protests targeting Zim to continue in Tacoma, Seattle

Flashback 2010: Blockade: Dockers respond to Israel’s Flotilla Massacre and Gaza Siege
2009: Durban: Victory for Workers Solidarity

Mass picket Zim ship Oakland 16 August
call for global action on Gaza

UNITE Liverpool letter to the Captain of Charlotte Borchard

Gaza: End the Siege (Liverpool leaflet)

Stand with Palestinian workers in Gaza: a call for trade union solidarity

Stop G4S

OCS, not G4S to provide security at Labour conference
G4S spurns Labour offer of conference security contract

As Labour asks G4S to provide conference security, a reminder of why the boycott is right
G4S: A Briefing for Trade Unionists (Stop G4S 2014)
Scandal of G4S-run Medway youth jail deepens as five more arrested (Guardian 26 June 2016)
Why Labour should boycott G4S as a provider of security to its conference (Left Futures July 2014)
Labour Party will boycott G4S security services over repression of Palestinians (Left Futures Nov 2015)
G4S won't guard BBC (Stop G4S March 2014)
Labour Party will boycott G4S security services over repression of Palestinians (Left Futures)
G4S Briefing for Trade Unionists (full reference version)

Construction

Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists

Campaigners welcome undercover police inquiry (Liverpool Echo)

How local authorities can block the blacklisters

Campaigners welcome MEPs move on blacklisting
Another construction blacklist revealed

Jack Kennedy plaque invite

Firm linked to blacklist given a seat on the HSE board

FACK join Crane protest against deregulation
Lives at risk - massive attack on health and safety!
Crane protest DWP London 3 July

5th Anniversary of the Battersea Crane collapse 20 Sep
Construction Safety Campaign AGM 26 Nov

Westfield: three serious incidents in one week

Construction: Protest 35% pay cut & deskilling - Manchester

Blacklist Buccaneer Balfour Beatty wins safety award

BLACKLISTED video on YouTube

Don't jail Ark Tribe: London 23 Nov

Construction Safety Campaign AGM 20 Nov Liverpool

Justice My Arse!: Shrewsbury 24 and Blacklisted workers Benefit 4 Dec London

Parliamentary Book Launch: Construction Safety Campaign 13 Oct London

Blacklisted: TUC Fringe meeting and new video
Leaflet for Blacklisted TUC Fringe mtg + video (Word)

Corus worker killed on site, again

Death at Lindsey Oil Refinery: Unite calls for independent inquiry

Union rep who stood up for safety faces jail

South African miners condemn xenophobic construction company Realcorp

Blacklist campaign condemns lack of protection in UK law

Crane safety win for Battersea Crane Disaster Action Group

Blacklist: progress for Steve Acheson
Blacklist: Defend Steve Acheson: Fiddlers Ferry 16 Feb 7am

Organising the Union at the Media City construction site

Blacklist: Protest lobby Employment Tribunal Manchester 24 Nov

Construction Safety Campaign: Ban Lead Now!
CSC AGM with Rita Donaghy 14 Nov London

Justice for Shrewsbury Pickets: London 9 Nov

Blacklist: Steve Acheson victory at High Court

Blacklisted electrician charged under Terrorism Act!
Blacklisted electrician hounded by company
Bricklayer wins Balfour blacklist compensation hearing
Mandelson urged to strengthen blacklist law

Construction Safety Campaign AGM (PDF)

Blacklisted builders protest Laing O'Rourke Bury 27 Aug

Israel: Irish construction giant digs deeper in Occupation

Lindsey Oil Refinery victory
Lindsey Oil Refinery strike: 900 sacked, support grows

Shrewsbury 24 March and Rally 4th July

Wembley death contractor to be sentenced at Old Bailey 9 July

Health and Safety in South Yorkshire Construction Sector

Exposing the construction blacklist

Justice for the Shrewsbury 24: Lobby Parliament 12 Mar

RMT branch letter to Lindsey strikers
Healthworkers: Wildcat construction strikes - how should we react?
Lindsey refinery strikers victory for all workers
Update on the spreading strikes by construction engineers in the refinery and power industry

UNISON: Whose union? Our union!

Vote for a fighting leadership: Unison NEC London Region

Victory for Unison 4 at Employment Appeal Tribunal

Bromley Unison members leave Unison - Stay and Fight!
Newham Unison suspension lifted finally!

Havering Unison Lobby Wednesday 25 May

Defend the 4 meeting London Tues 22 Feb
Employment Tribunal finds socialists were unfairly disciplined by UNISON

Unison United Left: Dawn Raids on union offices

Defend the Four: Dawn Raids protest at Unison HQ Mon 15 Mar

Caroline Bedale: Disciplinary Appeal 6 and 8 April

Jon Rogers: report to London Unison branches on union democracy
Dawn Raids on Unison Offices

Certification Officer: UNISON breached union rules in NEC election

Sheffield UNISON calls Public Sector lobby 5 March

Defend the Four - newsletter and lobby 24 Feb London

Darlington - fighting cuts with one hand tied behind back?
Alan Docherty: Who’s Next?

Manchester Metropolitan University redundancies: Defend Jobs, Education and Trade Unionism - demo 10 Feb

Support Caroline Bedale: Mcr 6 Feb

Support John McDermott

Reclaim the Union: UNISON-sponsored MP John McDonnell backs call to investigate London UNISON officials

Support Caroline Bedale
Letters of outrage and support for Caroline Bedale
Support Caroline - People should try to speak freely

Mass redundancies at Manchester Metropolitan University

Defend the Four - Glenn Kelly hearing 29 Oct
Defend the Four - Employment Tribunal revelations
Witchunt finds 4 socialists guilty - of what?

Letter to Dave Prentis: BNP activity and UNISON Northern Region

Lobby Liverpool City Council to defend in-house Home Care Service

ENEHL: further strikes start 7 Oct
Leeds: victimisation of trade union official by ENEHL
Leeds: ENEHL rally 27 Aug

Local government strikes 16-17 July, Scottish ballot opens (UNISON)

Victimisation for trade union activities
Stop the victimisation of John McDermott
East North East Housing Leeds strike 9 July
East North East Housing Leeds dispute

Witchunt: Statement by John McDonnell MP
Is there a Witchunt in UNISON? London 23 July

Defend Yunus Bakhsh
Yunus Bakhsh: Certification Officer finds UNISON broke own rules (PDF)

Tony Staunton: Certification Officer finds UNISON broke own rules (PDF)
Flashback: Statement by Tony Staunton (Nov 2006)

Defend the union’s democratic structures

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Public Sector strikes

Higher Education: Unison
Higher Education: UCU
Higher Education: Unite
Unity in Action statement

FBU

Probation

CWU
Joint statement CWU - Royal Mail

Dockers and Portworkers

Dockers will turn out to stop fascists in San Francisco

Automation: Class War on the Waterfront

ILWU: It's time to stand up! Ask questions and demand answers!

ILWU Contract Dispute Over?
Comment on Anthony Leviege interview

Jack Heyman: An Open Letter to Paul Bigman and Labor Notes
Paul Bigman, Mike Pellegrini: Responses to Open Letter

The ILWU leadership has accepted a deal that will further cripple their union

Liverpool dockers ponder industrial action ballot (Lloyd's List)

Longshore union faces the grain monopolies: Will labor solidarity prevail?

The ILWU Longshore Struggle in Longview and Beyond (Counterpunch)

Alexander Cockburn, friend of the ILWU longshoremen

Aussie Longshoreman interview

Labor Forum: Longview And the Struggle Ahead, San Francisco 29 July
ILWU members and retirees: EGT-Longview Longshore Contract - Worst Ever!

Gothenburg solidarity strike with Tilbury
Gothenburg dockers prepare strike solidarity with Tilbury
The Tilbury Dispute (IDC)

Occupy the Bridge: Golden Gate Ferry workers strike May Day
Solidarity message from Coordinadora, Spain
Solidarity from CGT Marseille, France

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Civil Service

Latest action against cuts to
jobs, terms and conditions and service

PCS walkout at Bury County & Magistrates Court

PCS court staff and lawyers on strike demo at M'cr courts
Legal Aid: These are not just cuts!
Defend access to justice for all

Liverpool court staff strike over pay and workload (Liverpool Echo)

PCS Action updates

Industrial action for sacked Home Office worker
update 8 March

DVLA staff to strike

Position of minister 'untenable' after border jobs scandal
Transport workers continue strikes against cuts

Cuts threat to community cohesion sparks strike at Equality & Human Rights Commission

Thousands of jobcentre staff start strike vote

Home Office management misled staff before announcing job cuts

New MPs inquiry into coastguard cuts

Keep the Forests in public ownership

PCS: Excellent support on first day of call centre strike

Redundancy pay: 90% vote to reject cuts in Consultative Ballot

Court closures will deny huge areas access to local justice

Parliamentary Human Rights committee sides with PCS against government cuts

PCS responds to Francis Maude on redundancy pay
Minister reneges on promise to protect lowest paid civil servants facing redundancy
Work experience offered at Home Office as 7, 000 job cuts loom

Defence cuts made on ‘predetermined timetable’

Office closures will make British passport less secure

Non-departmental public bodies provide vital services

Treasury scuppering talks over civil service redundancy pay

IT workers take industrial action after Â’insultingÂ’ pay offer

Capita workers fight poverty pay

MPs urged to throw out attempt to cut civil service redundancy pay

Mass job losses loom as justice cuts revealed

UnionÂ’s evidence busts myth pensions are unreformed and unaffordable

Welfare reforms doomed to fail under cuts agenda

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Wyatt McMinn

Labor Activist Wyatt McMinn faces jail
for protesting “Right to Work” union-busting

Wyatt McMinn: background to a frame-up

Turkey

Turkish unions call strike over protest violence (Al Arabiya)

Eyewitness to a public uprising

People's Assembly

The People's Assembly Against Austerity

Firefighters

Firefighters put seven-point pensions plan to ministers and seek new talks

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Hazards - Corporate Crime

Tackling Occupational Cancer should mean preventing it

New Scheme for Untraced Insurance but 50% Asbestos Victims Excluded

Workers Memorial Day 28 April 2012 Manchester
WMD Manchester poster (PDF 2.5Mb)
Workers Memorial Day 28 April London

Battersea Crane Disaster Inquest Verdict due Mon 12 Mar

Workers Memorial Day 28 April 2012

Tortured Science: Health Studies, Ethics and Nuclear Weapons in the United States

From Recession to Depression – Stress Network conf 26-27 Nov Bham

FACK Families to meet Professor Lofstedt over health & safety review

Rising numbers of people killed at work

Hazards: Right to Work campaign 10 May London

WMD: Protest at DWP on Workers Memorial Day, April 28th
WMD: Waltham Forest Workers Memorial Day, April 28th
WMD: Hazards Campaign answers Grayling

The Sixty-Five: MTUC health & safety 16 Apr Salford

Workers International Memorial Day 28 Apr (PDF)

Regulations donÂ’t kill jobs but lack of regulations kill workers!

Corporate Manslaughter

Hazards: Bin Lord Young’s biased review of health & safety
FACK: Lord Young’s Report “a mass of unsubstantiated prejudices, myths and nonsense”

Lord Young, Face the FACKs!
Lord Young, We didn’t vote to die at work

We didn’t vote to die at work: Liverpool 4 Sept

Cancer in microelectronics industry - HSE claims refuted

Asbestos in schools: Unison Waltham Forest slams council

Buncefield directors slip through net

Worker death rates and HSE data

Families issue Safety Challenge to Lord Young and Prime Minister
No evidence for deregulating health & safety

Asbestos protest at Canada House, London 1 July

WMD commemoration for workers killed on London Olympics site
Workers Memorial Day 28 April 2010 - London demos

Hazards: Vote to save your life at work
FACK: Tell us youÂ’ll stand up for workers safety before we vote for you

When will Biffa and other serial killing directors be held to account?
When will Corus and other serial killing directors be held to account?

Hazards comments on election manifestos

Fack condemns Health and Safety Report

Anger at soft sentencing guidelines for employers who kill

Government recognises WMD - Hazards Campaign comment

Bhopal - Corporate Crime Day 3 Dec

FACK condemns David CameronÂ’s attack on health and safety

25th anniversary of Bhopal disaster: Wed 2 Dec
Bhopal arrest warrant: commentary
The Bhopal disaster and its aftermath: a review (Environmental Health)

Shoes, Glues, and Homework

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Israel – Palestine

Fearing Jewish attacks, 100 Arab bus drivers in Jerusalem quit their jobs (Ha'aretz)

Victory against Veolia: St Louis campaigners win!

On the ground in occupied Palestine

Letters of support for Wits students charged over Israel protest

BBC: Stop G4S bidding now!

G4S and BBC security contract

Veolia remains key BDS target

Palestinian Farmers Union: Sanctions against Israeli settlements

Palestinian workers in the Mishor Edomim Zone

Israel continues to bomb Gaza, 22 killed
3 Palestinian journalists killed by Israeli strike on press car
Two Palestinians killed in West Bank protests on Gaza
Israeli Mayor: Expel Nazareth Palestinians for opposing war

Urgent Gaza Action: Stop Arming Israel
G4S offices occupied over role in siege on Gaza
SOAS occupation for Gaza
Batsheva disrupted inside, festival for Gaza outside
UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk urges North London Waste Authority to avoid Veolia
GAZA - Actions you can take right now

Trade UnionistsÂ’ declaration on Palestine and the Arab Revolutions

PCHR: Ongoing Israeli Offensive on Gaza 18 Nov
In Gaza, 3 days and nights without sleep
Demonstrations across the West Bank protesting the assault on Gaza

Batsheva: Anger at Gaza slaughter targets Sadler’s Wells
Call Mr Robeson - “The Artist must take sides”

200 at Liverpool demo outside BBC

Gaza journalists defiant after Israeli attack on media center (Electronic Intifada)
BBC platform for former Zionist Federation official (New Left Project)
BBC: Tell the truth on Gaza!

Gaza Emergency demo Israeli Embassy London 17 Nov
Stop a New Israeli Massacre in Gaza: Boycott Israel Now! (BNC)
Veolia ends Wildlife Exhibition sponsorship

Emergency demo 15 Nov: Israeli Embassy, London
Emergency demo 17 Nov: March to Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh

Nous accusons: media coverage fails context of Gaza attack (Noam Chomsky + 8)

Gaza attack: statements 14 Nov
Gaza under attack: PCHR report and photos 11 Nov
Gaza attack: video report 11 Nov

South Africans to protest toy store supporting JNF

Swedish ship to Gaza: Israeli activists detained
Estelle crew were beaten during the attack and by interrogators
For some Israelis, Gazans receive 2,279 calories too many (Ha'aretz)

Gaza: Barcelona dockers support the Freedom Flotilla

Rachel Corrie verdict: without BDS, Israel will never comply with international law
VIDEO: Activists in Gaza say — Remember Rachel Corrie by supporting BDS

The Account of Moty Cristal

South African firm complicit in Israeli occupation: Karsten Farms, Kalahari Dates

Palestinian youth assert right to protest over repression (Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign)
PA repression stokes the fires of Palestinian discontent (Jamal Juma'a)
Palestinian Authority police brutality against anti-Mofaz protests (Stop the Wall)
PCHR Strongly Condemns the Use of Force against Peaceful Demonstrations in Ramallah (PCHR)

Unison, FBU and the Histadrut: Five steps forward, one step back

Solidarity message to European unions from Palestinian trade unions

Outrage as Israel refuses to hospitalise two hunger strikers
Palestinian footballer remains on hunger strike, gravely ill

Protesters thwart draconian security at Globe Theatre
The Globe Brings the West Bank to London

Picketing Israel's Fascist Foreign Minister in Hendon
Protests at charity invitation to Israeli Foreign Minister

COSATU backs DTI on relabeling of Palestinian products
In South Africa, gathering storm over West Bank products

Progress for Prisoners’ Movement: Palestinian Prisoners’ Mass Hunger Strike Concludes After Agreement is Reached
Palestinian prisoners score heroic victory
Lawyer: Administrative detainees agree to hunger strike deal
Palestinian prisoners agree to end mass hunger strike
Palestinian prisoners: their fate is in our hands
New EDM: Administrative Detention in Palestine

Hunger strikers surpass 70 days, Court rejects petition

Ramallah: Stop the Wall office raided by Israeli military

Veolia: Excluding Complicity with Israeli War Crimes 9 May London

BDS movement applauds Co-op decision to exclude complicit companies

Update on the Palestinian PrisonersÂ’ Hunger Strike 25 Apr
Palestinian prisoners mass hunger strike
Palestinian call for action against Israeli prison contractor G4S

Independent Federation of Palestinian Unions
Bil’n International Conference for Popular Resistance
Jenin Twinning Conference

Tribute to Vittorio Arrigoni 19 Apr Manchester

STUC on release of Scottish citizens detained by Israel
Jet2.com - Shame on you - Israel tells you what to do
British women join Palestinian prisoners hunger strike

Veolia: Birmingham protest on Land Day

Officials say deal reached to free Hana Shalabi
Why the silence? Hana Shalabi on day 40 of hunger strike as Israel rejects appeal (Electronic Intifada)
Hana al-ShalabiÂ’s hunger strike: Listen to Ali Abunimah interview on Flashpoints
Prisoners society: Shalabi in serious condition
Hana Shalabi: Liverpool protest at BBC Thurs 29 Mar

Israeli interrogated en route back to Israel for her activism in Palestinian cause

ANC leader Ahmed Kathrada condemns Israeli apartheid
Apartheid is a crime, not an analogy (Ma’an News Agency)

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We won’t pay
for their crisis

PCS: Support the European day of action
EPSU: European day of action and solidarity – public service unions engage
ETUC 14 November: European Day of Action and Solidarity

Coalition of Resistance: Historic European strike day
Communications blockade Francis Maude offices
Liverpool solidarity demo 14 Nov

Photoreport: London 20 October
Music on the TUC March (YouTube)
We marched together - now Strike Together! (NSSN)

Low paid Capita workers to strike in Liverpool

Traffic Wardens dispute hits Parliament (after a fashion)

TUC vote for coordinated industrial action, possible general strike

Pants still on fire? (Jon Rogers)
LGPS 'deal' - the pluses and minuses (Camden Unison)
Local Gov’t Pension Scheme:
a report from Unison Service Group Exec
LGPS Unison: Where have all the examples gone (Jon Rogers)

Camden UNISON strike report
NSL: Camden UNISON members on brink of historic action over low pay
Camden Unison set for historic low pay strike 11-12 July
Camden Unison Traffic Wardens 97.7% vote for pay fight

DWP announces closure of major site in North West

Unite warns of further London bus strikes

NSSN conference 9 June London

Camden Unison: Pay modernisation? No thanks!

Addenbrookes cleaners protest Medirest pay cuts (Unison)
messages of support: unison@addenbrookes.nhs.uk

PCS strike over staffing shortages at Merseyside jobcentres (PCS)

PCS overtime ban in pensions campaign
After 10 May strike, overtime ban extended to 31 July (PCS)
PCS Conference to step up pensions campaign
10 May PCS Live Blog

Public servants strike again over “unnecessary” pension changes

May Day celebrations Salford & Manchester 7 May

Unite healthworkers to step up pensionsÂ’ fight on 10 May
PCS civil servants pensions action starts with strike 10 May

PCS: a Budget for the Rich
Budget announcement on Local Pay spells danger for North West economy

NHS Pensions: Report of Unison Health Service Exec 21 March
Pensions - real progress in Unite
PCS: Overwhelming votes to reject and fight pensions cuts
NUT London pensions strike - 28 March
UCU to take London-wide strike action in pensions row

BMA postpones pensions roadshows and ballot

UNISON Council Staff Step Up Industrial Action

Greece: from Despair to Resistance

possible public sector pension strikes late March

FBU to recommend rapid move to prepare a national strike ballot on pensions

UCU to ballot members over further strikes in pensions row
UCU: Mark Campbell letter re March 28th Strike Action

NUT: Say No to 68

PCS: Unions to consult on further pensions action
Pensions: UNITE Health Sector Nat Cttee rejects Heads of Agreement
Unions challenge shift from RPI to CPI 20 Feb High Court

Stroud Victory against Social Enterprise

UNISON: Lambeth calls for Special Conference on Pensions offer

UNISON Oxfordshire Health requests Special Conference of Health Service Group

UCU: letter from Mark Campbell

UNITE: The pensions fight is on!

Adrian O'Malley: Report from UNISON Health Exec 10 Jan 2012
Karen Reissmann: Report from UNISON Health Exec 10 Jan 2012

UNISON Pensions decisions
UNISON suspends pension strikes

PCS: Mark Serwotka calls for more action over pensions

UNITE rejects LGPS agreement - what should UNISON do?
UNITE rejects Local Government pensions offer

UNISON South-East region debates NHS Pensions

Lobby UNISON Service Group Execs Tues 10 Jan

Waltham Forest Nursery Nurses protest pay cuts

Unite: Analysis of the NHS Pensions Proposals

UNISON members petition: Why we say ‘no deal’ on pensions

Unite rejects offer, BMA consults over industrial action

Unison Oxfordshire Health rejects Heads of Agreement
UNISON Oxfordshire Health Branch to debate pensions offer

UNITE: Health Sector National Committee dump pensions offer
Unite unanimously rejects NHS pensions offer

PCS Left Unity conference for all union activists 7 Jan London

Camden Unison on LGPS offer

Unity must be maintained if we're to win (Morning Star)

PCS: We can win pensions battle

PCS strikes to stop call centre privatisations

PCS reject civil service pension offer

Camden Unison: What’s happening in the pensions dispute?

NHS Pension Scheme Heads of Agreement

UNISON: Update on NHS pension scheme
UNISON refers offer to Health Service Exec
UNITE Health Sector National Committee rejects “deal”

Pensions: PCS calls for unity

Petition: Don’t give up the pensions fight!
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NSSN petition: Strike again in January! Defend our pensions!

Pensions dispute update from Camden UNISON Br Sec
Islington UNISON Br Cttee on Pensions dispute

No sell-out on pensions!

PCS: Unions call for extra money for fair pensions
PCS: Maude misleads MPs again over pensions talks progress
PCS: Millions fight pension changes
PCS: 100,000 say reverse RPI-CPI pensions switch

FBU: Pensions - Latest Position: Cost Ceilings

YouTube: Liverpool City Council leader Joe Anderson calls protestors “scum”

Sparks: the biggest unofficial strike in decades

UNISON National Exec evaluates 30 November
UNITE Executive Council statement following November 30th

National Shop Stewards Network: 30 November

30 November: Liverpool photoreport
30 November: “What we are doing is a game changer”
30 November: Leicester, Cambridge, Bristol
PCS: Unprecedented support for strike

Fighting for Pensions - Against NHS Privatisation

Palestinian unions solidarity with pension strikes
Pensions - Palestine

Liberate Oakland 19 Nov: Shut down the 1%

Oakland: Massive Occupy Raid Imminent

Occupy Oakland face imminent attack
Communique to EGT from Occupy Oakland
Occupy March Shuts Down Oakland Port
General Strike Shuts Down Port of Oakland

Unite the Resistance London 19 Nov

Pensions and Disability
UNISON hits back at pensions strike ballot attacks

NHS pensions: towards 30 Nov

UNISON 78% Yes vote (82% Yes in NHS)
Action on 30 Nov still on
PCS: Preparations continue for mass strike on pensions

TV report: Thousands March To Occupy Oakland (KCRA)
San Francisco Bay Area Indymedia
Occupy Oakland Prepares for General Strike as War Veterans Organize Day of Action at Occupy Camps (Democracy Now!)
Occupy Oakland: labor movement gears up for 2 Nov
Defend Occupy Oakland with the muscle of organized labor (PDF)

OWS report 27 Oct: Occupy Rising

Iraq Veterans Against the War: Scott Olsen video and appeal
Iraq War veteran critically injured in Oakland police clash (AP/Washington Post)

Occupy Wall Street Report: Stop Bloomberg: Defend OWS
Occupy Wall St. not Palestine!

San Francisco: Clarence Thomas, ILWU Local 10 addresses Occupy Wall Street West rally, Oct. 12, 2011. ILWU Local 21 members Jake Whiteside and Byron Jacobs with ILWU local banners and sign reading "Give Us Our Jobs Back!"

Occupy Wall St. Updates
Transport Workers Union Local 100 supports Occupy Wall St.
On charges of anti-semitism at Occupy Wall St.

NSSN Bulletin 63 - VOTE YES for action!

Senate House workers demo 3 Oct London

Middlesex University UNISON votes to strike
Middlesex University UNISON Branch Ballots for Industrial Action

SERTUC newsletter and update - TUC day of action 30 November 2011

Dave Prentis speech at Labour Party conference

Waltham Forest Council agree to cut lower paidÂ’s wages
Waltham Forest Council still threaten staff with pay cuts or dismissal

Under Attack: In Defence of the Public Sector

Striking Greek teachers’ union to attend London Conference Against Austerity
European left meet to debate response to crisis in Europe

NSSN calls on TUC to open the floodgates of mass action

NWTUC march to Tory Party Conf 2 Oct Mcr

UNISON to ballot 1.1m re pensions
PCS: Historic strike set for 30 November
UNITE to ballot 250,000 re pensions
GMB to ballot re pensions
FBU takes first step towards industrial action ballot re pensions

PCS decries MilibandÂ’s Â’slap in the faceÂ’ for public sector workers

Senate House cleaners victory after unofficial strike

Get to grips with PFI, MPs tell Treasury

Southampton: UNISON - UNITE membership agree to continue strike action

Southampton Council strike widens

Southampton UNISON and UNITE strike 13 July (UNISON)
Southampton UNISON strike updates
ITF supports action by Southampton port health inspectors

Hundreds of government IT workers in strike ballot over pay

50 Day Countdown to TUC March on Tory Party Conference

PCS: Growth figures show there needs to be an alternative

PCS: Withdraw pension plans that even Lansley opposes

Waltham Forest unions gagged by Council

Liverpool Job centre closure condemned
Liverpool museums staff in strike vote over pay freeze

An Apology

UNISON NEC report: towards the Pension strikes
UNISON Health Service Exec report

Pensions strike 30 June - Liverpool photos

Thousands on Liverpool pensions demo, teachers warn of more strikes (Liverpool Daily Post)

Pensions Protest March to pass through Liverpool
Public Sector strike - North West rallies 30 June

Mobilisations in Greece against privatisation measures

NAHT cautions against parents covering for striking teachers
Head Teachers model letter to parents

Birmingham UNISON strike 30 June after 76% Yes vote
Camden Council sectional strike 30 June
UNISON local strikes on 30 June
UNISON Local Gov’t members to organise for ‘historic victory’ (UNISON)

PCS strike against privatisation 17 June: Liverpool
Public sector North-West strikes against cuts 30 June

UNISON and UCU coordinated strike at London Met Uni - Wed 22 June

Thinking about our Future, photos: Tom Bimpson

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Education

London Met UCU and UNISON: Amnesty Now! Save London Met!
London Met University protest Home Office 1pm Wed 5 Sept
UKBA Crisis: Joint UNISON-UCU meeting on London Met Univ

Solidarity with the staff of St. GeorgeÂ’s School, Sefton, Liverpool, 3 September

Salford University UCU strike report (Manchester TUC)

Cambridge: over five hundred student and staff protest suspension of student
University of Cambridge suspends student for 2 1/2 years for peaceful protest

Disability

Remploy Head Office occupied (GMB)

Disability support workers win sleepover wage

Disability support workers action at IHC New Zealand

Unions mark ‘International Day of Persons with Disabilities’

New Zealand: Community Support Workers to strike over wage freeze

New Labour proposal to abolish all disability benefits

Roy Webb

Welfare Reform: the ‘unthinkable’ about to happen?

Welfare Reform Bill lobby and rally 4 Dec

Learning Disabilities: organising against privatisation

Campaign Against the Welfare Reform Bill lobbies Labour Conf.

Stroll, Roll, Rally... against the Incap Cuts
National demo against cuts in Disability Benefit Sheffield 17 June

24 out of 351 English Councils have 100% Disabled Access

GMB comment on public procurement and disability

Campaign for employees with a disability

New Labour attack Disability Benefit

Disability activists claim victory
Manchester City Council bans disability action website

Rover, T&GWU and Disability Discrimination

Disability – a union issue
The Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation

Rail / Tube

Rail privatisation in Israel and the Histadrut

Canada: Workers consider occupation of Caterpillar locomotive plant (Guardian)
Canadian labour at the crossroads (The Bullet)

London Transport Regional Council joins Derail Veolia and Alstom Campaign

RMT strike dates in vicimisations dispute
RMT strike suspended
RMT names strike dates in vicimisations dispute
Reinstate sacked RMT Tube driver reps

RMT announces further wave of strike action on Heathrow Express

RMT demo against McNulty Report: Liverpool 28 June

Fragmenting rail infrastructure Â’a recipe for disasterÂ’

London Transport playing ‘fast and loose’ with safety as strike looms
Tube Safety Strike protest at Euston 7 Sept

London Underground Ballot Result

RMT renews call to scrap level crossings after Sudbury crash

RMT to re-ballot as Network Rail injunction halts rail strike

Tube Strike Ballot over safety, jobs, office closures

National rail strike for maintenance and signals staff

RMT vote nine to one for strike action on National Express East Anglia
RMT members vote four to one for action at Arriva Cross Country

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Japan

Fukushima: On March 11

Doro Chiba Quake Report: March 11, Fukushima Anniversary

video: From the Fighting Workers of Fukushima to Our Friends of the World

Labornet Japan - English web page

Fukushima women begin 10 day sit-in at Gov’t Ministry

Fukushima University Students Fighting to Abolish Nuke Plants!
Doro-Chiba Quake Report No. 29

Hiroshima Action on 66th Anniversary of A-bomb

Fukushima Mothers and Farmers in Unity

Japan: Education Ministry Forces Radiation Exposure on Children!

Stand with Japanese workers: Oakland 23 Apr

Labornet Japan: news in English
Labornet Japan: full site (Japanese)

Doro-Chiba: Tsunami and Nuke Plant Blasts is no natural disaster

Doro-Chiba appeal 25 March
PeopleÂ’s Earthquake Relief Center established
Doro-Chiba (rail union): Let’s fight to live!

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Last defence at Fukushima: 50 Japanese workers (NY Times)

Iran

The Brutal Raid on Workers' Meeting (IASWI)

False Flag: Israel's operation against Iran (Foreign Policy)

Iran trade unionists threatened with deportation from Turkey

IASWI newsletter 7 Dec: Committee in Defense of Reza Shahabi

Stop Stoning and Sharia Laws!

Saeed Torabian, board member of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburb Vahed Bus Company arrested

May Day Iran

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History

Liverpool Museum screening: Videos from the 1980s

Lipstick Socialist: new blog on trade unions
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Alan Thornett: Militant Years 28 Sep Liverpool

Striking a Light: The Matchwomen 11 Oct London

10th Working Class Bookfair 5 Nov Newcastle

Gerard Winstanley descendant to open Wigan Diggers’ Festival Sat 10 Sept

Jayaben Desai - Grunwick strike leader - commemoration, Brent TUC Sun 17 Apr

Socialism in the 21st Century and the Russian Revolution

Speke 1985 - Back to the Future?: Liverpool 24 Mar

The Russian Revolution in Retreat: Liverpool 10 April

The William Morris Hall Centenary - Sun 13 Dec

Percy Fisher - long lost son of County Durham
Working Class Bookfair - Durham 21 Nov

Streamed Video: 1934 General Strike San Francisco commemorations
Lessons of the 1934 General Strike: San Francisco 3 July

The Russian Revolution in Retreat 1920-24 - now in paperback

Miners strike: Train crews did refuse to move coal

Miners' Strike 25th Anniversary Concert 15 Mar

25th anniversary of Miners Strike, 3rd Working Class Bookfair 14 Mar

Margaret Thatcher dies on stage

The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920-24
Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite

Blue Plaque for The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist author, Liverpool 3 Feb

The Flying Pickets: 1972 buildersÂ’ strike and Shrewsbury trials

Robert Tressell Commemoration Liverpool 3 Feb

Ruth Frow celebration 5 Apr Salford
Ruth Frow - Trade Union hero dies

Pentonville Dockers commemmoration 28 July London

Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Lecture 17 Aug Sheffield
Sylvia Pankhurst Festival

International Women’s Day: Manchester event 10 March

Manchester TUC 140th anniversary celebration 13 Dec

Grunwick commemoration London 17 Sept.
Grunwick 30th Anniversary: Brent TUC event

Spanish Civil War Exhibition - Manchester International Brigaders

Dave Chapple: Henry Suss and the Jewish working-class of Manchester and Salford

Anti-fascist martyr Szmul Zygielbojm and the Warsaw Ghetto Rising

Staying Red: Why I remain a socialist – Norman Harding

LaborFest 2004 - 70th Anniversary of San Francisco General Strike

Al Richardson is dead

ESF Seminar: Where does anti-capitalism come from?

Suffragette Centenary