Posted by Koos on 24 Apr 2012 /
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By Koos Couvée
The NUJ is back at News International headquarters in Wapping, more than twenty-five years after being derecognised and locked out during the Wapping strike of 1896.
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Posted by Koos on 23 Apr 2012 /
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Today, 33 years after his death at the hands of the police during an anti-nazi demonstration in Southall, west London, we commemorate New-Zealand born teacher Clement Blair Peach.
Blair Peach, anti-racist activist and president of the East London NUT branch was struck by a police baton during a demonstration against the decision of the far-right National [...]
Posted by Mhairi on 23 Apr 2012 /
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By Mhairi McAlpine / @Mhairi_McAlpine
Growing up in the 1970s, I didn’t have the most politically correct upbringing. A gollywog adorned the jam jar I stared blankly at as I woke up over my morning toast, in school we read “Little Black Sambo” – complete with illustrations, for pleasure I read about how evil Gollywogs were, [...]
Posted by Koos on 05 Apr 2012 /
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Activists from across the UK will gather in London in July for a summer school organised by So We Stand, a UK based community activist network which support communities living in high emissions such as power stations or airports and other areas facing environmental injustice.
The school aims to bring together leading international community organising movements [...]
Posted by Koos on 31 Mar 2012 /
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By Kerem Nisancioglu
First he thanked God. Then he thanked Allah. Next came out the cigar and the open top bus ride through the (largely empty) city streets of Bradford where George Galloway had dramatically won a by-election. With the borderline-cringey chutzpah he has become famous for, Galloway was able to marginalise all other headlines in [...]
Posted by Koos on 28 Mar 2012 /
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By Daniel Randall, aka The Ruby Kid
Essex rapper Plan B’s new project iLL Manors (a “hip-hop musical” film, with a soundtrack featuring a soon-to-be-released title single) calls out the government and the right-wing media over the cuts, the riots, the housing crisis, racism and the demonisation of the working class.
Posted by Koos on 21 Mar 2012 /
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A month after the shooting of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in the town of Sanford, Florida, his killer, George Zimmerman, is still a free man. Zimmerman has told local police he was attacked from behind and acted in self-defence but there is overwhelming evidence, both from witness accounts and recordings of 911 calls, that [...]
Read more →by Mairead Tagg
Last month I had a horrible experience at Glasgow Starbucks in Exchange Square. I went there quite early in the morning to do some work and was then forced to listen to a really racist “joke” made by someone who was chatting very loudly and laughing with staff. There was another woman buying [...]
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