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Activists from Nottinghamshire Stop the BNP returned to the streets in their campaign against the British National Party. Leafleting door-to-door in the Beeston area of Nottingham, a small group of anti-fascists found themselves on the same front steps as the BNP, who’d covered the area a short time before.
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About 400 students and academics protested at Nottingham University on 28 May against the attempts currently underway to deport Hicham Yezza, a former university student now employed on the campus.
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The British National Party has made a small but significant advance in May’s local and London Assembly elections. The BNP now have:
• A member on the 25 person Greater London Assembly;
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The British National Party is in the throes of a major crisis after a series of high profile expulsions and resignations. The root of the crisis is the outspoken fascism of leading BNP member Mark Collett and the contradictions implicit in an organisation attempting to hide its real politics.
Download two leaflets from the "Notts Stop the BNP campaign" (pdf): BNP in Turmoil and Stop the BNP in Kimberley.
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An attempt by AWL and Committee for 2 states to explore possibilities for joint work between the PSC and the Comm for 2 States are rebuffed. Why? Well read on.
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By Tom Unterrainer
DRIVERS working for NCT in Nottingham struck for 24 hours on 27 May in the first of a sequence of actions planned for consecutive Saturdays. The first strike saw the city’s bus system grind to a halt as TGWU members picketed the main depot in a solid day of action.
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An all-out unofficial strike by workers at Cottam power station, between Nottingham and Lincoln, started in late February.
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Briefly... Austrian contractors, SFL, supply cheap Hungarian labour to power station desulphurization construction project.
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By Tom Unterrainer
The Department for Education and Skills has pulled off an astonishing act. They've managed to convince Nottingham City Local Education Authority (LEA) to effectively write itself out of responsibility for secondary education in the city - and all by promising "record" investment.
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FBU press release
Nottinghamshire fire crews have voted four to one (81%) in favour of taking industrial action short of a strike over moves to force them to provide an ambulance service. The Fire Brigades Union says the fire authority is trying to impose new ambulance duties without negotiation.
