How the first Starbucks strike was made
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Mike Treen, National Director of the New Zealand union Unite, will be touring the country in February as part of a No Sweat national week of action. [Details here]
Solidarity 3/126, 7 February 2008
Scapegoating black and Asian youth
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An increase in, and a strengthening of, stop and search powers looks set to become a key part of the government’s “tough on crime” agenda.
SWP-Respect to challenge Livingstone
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Let’s look on the bright side first. SWP-Respect is reaffirming the need for a left challenge to Livingstone as London mayor.
Bread and roses for the rich
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The battle over arts funding is still raging, with the latest fall-out this week being a £3.5 million cut to the arts in Wales.
A horror story to learn from
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An 81 year old retired Irish cardinal, Desmond Connell, has gone to the High Court in Dublin for a writ to stop his successor as Archbishop of Dublin from handing over church files on paedophile priests to a state-organised inquiry into clerical abuse of children.
Teachers: take action on pay!
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This leaflet from Leeds NUT outlines the reasons why teachers are fighting for better pay.
The future of the left?
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Around 70 people heared John McDonnell speak at a Scottish Campaign for Socialism meeting in Glasgow on 2 February.
Lecturers; Birmingham; Remploy
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Lecturers’ strike on 24 April
The UCU has announced plans for strike action for Further Education lecturers to coincide with the action planned by the NUT on 24 April.
Assessing anti-sweatshop campaigns
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Today’s globalised clothing industry involves transnational networks of production and sales in which manufacturing is subcontracted to producers, usually in developing countries.
Would you like a certificate with that?
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You’ve tasted the Big Mac, you’ve probably had some McNuggets in your time but how about getting your chops round a McA-Level? Sceptical? Me too.