The Good Ole Days
It’s that time of year, war wounds are brought out, camera phones revealed. Pub tables are pulled together and people yell in your face about how mad it was. Yes Glastonbury festival is over and still people can’t stop talking about it. I’m especially pissed off as this year I didn’t go. […]
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Culture
Posted by Justin on 21 May 2014 /
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By @JustinTheLibSoc
[Content note: references to racial violence and rape]
Welcome to a world where Diane Abbott stumbles to say what David Lammy states fearlessly. Where The Sun’s Trevor Kavanagh did what Ed Miliband couldn’t. James O’Brien elegantly provided an open door but leading political figures declined the offer. Contrary to what appeared to many as obvious, Cameron and […]
Activism
Posted by Justin on 04 Jul 2013 /
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Cleaners at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London are to lobby the School’s governing body meeting on 4th July, demanding to be brought back in-house. The protest will take place at 1pm outside the main SOAS building.
The cleaners, members of Unison, are currently outsourced, employed by multinational contractor ISS, and are […]
Activism
By @ReelNewsLondon
The rank and file trade unionist led, anti-blacklist campaign over the past 18 months has made great accomplishments. The Sparks victory in the BESNA dispute, the Scottish affairs select committee report, the high court conspiracy trial coming up against Sir Robert McAlpine, numerous tribunals and actions in the European court of human rights, and […]
By @akblackandred
PCS, the union which represents civil servants, held its Annual Delegate Conference in Brighton from 20 to 23 May.
The conference took place in the midst of a ramping up of the government’s attempts to break the union. The effect of Francis Maude’s drastic cuts to facility time could be seen in the number of […]
Economics
As heard by @JustinTheLibSoc
R Ali (Lab): 3 years ago, you said we’d be borrowing less. You’ve fucked up!
PM: I said we said savagely cut the state & we have!
Carswell (Con): Right of recall should be given to voters not MPs.
PM: Your Direct Democracy ideas are strange. Recall Miliband!
Ed M: You said A&E would get better… […]
Activism
Posted by Justin on 19 May 2013 /
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By @JustinTheLibSoc
On Tuesday 7th May, Cap Gemini’s serene offices in Vauxhall, South London were once again rocked by a surprise visit by the Cleaners and activists of the Industrial Workers of Great Britain (IWGB). The dispute started when a senior manager told the predominately Latin American cleaners that they could never be British because “they were […]
Activism
Posted by Justin on 04 May 2013 /
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By @JustinTheLibSoc
Following our previous report on the campaigning Cleaners at the Corporation of London’s Barbican Centre, we now have footage of the Industrial Workers of Great Britain holding a surprise occupation of the centre.
This video shows the cleaners who are mostly migrants facing racist abuse for having the temerity to end poverty pay. Watch the […]
Economics
Posted by Koos on 23 Apr 2013 /
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By Koos Couvée
Just before the onset of Britain’s switch to a post-industrial theme-park economy, Margaret Thatcher announced her flagship Right-to-Buy policy, designed to extend the joys of home ownership to council tenants by allowing them to buy their homes at a considerable discount. In August 1980, with the passing of the Housing Act, she told […]
Activism
Posted by Justin on 19 Apr 2013 /
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By Justin / @justinthelibsoc
On Wednesday 17th April, in Nea Manolada, Greece, more than 30 Bangladeshi migrant strawberry pickers were shot by their supervisors and bosses and several workers are currently in critical condition. The shooting took place when around 200 migrant workers demanded to receive wages for 6 months unpaid work. The Associated Press news agency […]
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