Workers' Liberty

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;

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.

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.

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.

An all-out unofficial strike by workers at Cottam power station, between Nottingham and Lincoln, started in late February.

Briefly... Austrian contractors, SFL, supply cheap Hungarian labour to power station desulphurization construction project.

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.

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.

Tom Unterrainer reports from Nottingham

Despite all the critical reports, investigations and public opposition the Government appears more determined than ever to press ahead with City Academies. It seems that for each concern raised about the scheme, an “innovation” is announced. The latest idea is to give one school away for every three purchased — so if you’ve got six million pounds to spare you can buy yourself half a local education authority at a bargain price.

Nottingham Workers Liberty
Oppose the war in Iraq and the terror of political Islamists

Condemn the bombings

The bombings on the 7th July were atrocious acts against the civilian population. Those who planned and carried out the attack knew whom the victims would be, innocent working people on their way to work. No civilian deserves to die no matter how many countries have been invaded or occupied by the armies of the superpowers.

Campaigners in Nottingham have stopped a local school becoming the fourth Muslim state primary in the country. The independent Islamia School in Hyson Green had applied to become a voluntary-aided state school, which would entitle it to Government funding. But the school's application was turned down by Nottingham’s School Organisation Committee, which is made up of city councillors, governors and church leaders.

By Tim Cooper

In Nottingham the council is proposing that a local small private Islamic school become a large LEA voluntary-aided school.