The left and the US elections
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Date:
29 September, 2004 - 21:00
Location:
Bennett's Bar, Bennett's Hill, Birmingham
Description:
Birmingham AWL meeting
Birmingham AWL meeting
Birmingham
Forced into sexual slavery
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During the first few days of last month, reports about the police raids of Birmingham massage parlour flooded newspapers all over the world.
The bitter fruits of communalism
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There was nothing progressive about the riot that broke out in the Lozells area of Handsworth, Birmingham over the weekend of 21-23 October. The disturbances were fuelled by poverty, racism, mass hysteria, criminal drug gangs, religion and communalism.
Being Skint
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Duncan Morrison reviews “Skint”, BBC1, Mondays, 10.35pm
The documentary series Skint has reminded me how valuable good documentaries can be. Using a not quite fly on the wall style, the makers ask questions to their subjects as they go through their lives. They follow a number of people and families in the Birmingham area as they struggle to make ends meet. These are Britain’s poor.
Ballot-rigging in Birmingham
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By Dave Jessop
Six Birmingham Labour councillors have been found guilty of corruption and a systematic attempt to rig the 2004 city council elections.
In defence of Behzti
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The Birmingham Repertory Theatre’s shameful decision to cancel the play, Behzti (Dishonour), was justified in the following way by Executive Director Stuart Rogers: “[Sikh] community leaders have been unable to guarantee to us that there will be no repeat of the illegal and violent activites we saw on Saturday… we cannot guarantee the safety of our audiences… [W]e have decided to end the current run of the play on security grounds.”
Privatised pay deal
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Privatised ex-NHS staff at Birmingham’s Heartlands hospital have accepted a deal which will see them reach parity with NHS pay and conditions by 2007. The deal was offered to them by Initial Hospital Services and Birmingham Heartlands management after the workers planned strikes in protest against the “two-tier workforce”.
Learning from solidarity: The miners' strike 1984-5
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Jim Denham recalls the strike support work done in Birmingham
Birmingham Bagmakers: Striking for some dignity
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Workers at Euro Packaging in Birmingham, which makes paper bags, have been on strike against redundancies and for a 37.5 hour week. The workers are members of the Graphical, Paper and Media Union. The employers are notorious for bad pay and conditions (some workers, say the union, work up to 80 hours a week and most are on minimum wage or just above). The GPMU was recently organised and won recognition. The employers have responded by "selecting" key organisers for redundancy.
Fighting Back for Manufacturing
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Rally and March
11am Saturday 22nd May 2004
Broad Street, Birmingham
Speakers:
Tony Woodley, T&G General Secretary
Derek Simpson, Amicus General Secretary
Debbie Coulter, GMB Deputy General Secretary
Richard Burden MP
Rally to be Chaired by Gerard Coyne, Regional Secretary TGWU
Called By: The TGWU, Amicus and the GMB