28 October 2014
The owners of the Ritzy art house cinema in Brixton, announced on 27 October it would sack a quarter of the workforce – to pay for the wage rise won in one of the year’s most imaginative struggles.
26 October 2014
The Secular 2014 conference included a devastating analysis by Pragna Patel of the disturbing influence of fundamentalism in Britain’s legal system by what she calls “shariafication by stealth”.
24 October 2014
An international feast of property speculators visited London for the first time in October – networking, partying, and carving up Britain’s assets.
24 October 2014
A ban on ray fishing in Britain by the EU Marine Management Organisation threatens the end of fishing in North Devon.
24 October 2014
Women in east London are fighting a spirited campaign to stop evictions and to house local people in local estates.
Parliament disgraced itself when it voted in October for another assault on stricken Iraq – “making the rubble bounce”, in the US Air Force’s unsavoury phrase.
Just about every aspect of the insanity of capitalism is exposed by the current outbreak of Ebola virus centred on west Africa.
On Monday 13 October the Royal College of Midwives struck for the first time in its long history – a four-hour stoppage.
It is a reflection of the discipline and loyalty of health workers to their unions that despite the low ballot turnout they struck and held out in the face of adversity.
More than two-thirds of Britain’s rail network is now run by foreign state-owned companies – given to them not just by Westminster, but the false nationalists in Holyrood as well…
The SNP-led administration in Scotland has awarded the contract to run ScotRail to Abellio, owned by Dutch state rail company NS.
The defeat of separatism in the referendum has spurred some regeneration in Scottish shipyards. But the challenge remains: how to rebuild a vital industry laid waste by decades of contraction…
