Workers' Liberty

Just over fifty people attended the launch meeting of the local Labour Representation Committee in Hackney, East London, on Wednesday 27 February.

In a shocking example of its free-market savagery, the Government is closing 28 of the 83 Remploy factories, which employ disabled workers to make work-wear products in a unionised workplace with unio

Letter: I was very surprised to read your article re Trades Councils. Through campaign work I have learned a lot about these bodies. We have put in a large amount of energy in getting Trades Council sponsorship for our publications.

In response to Bournemouth, we should initiate a long-term consistent campaign to build or revive Trades Councils as political organs of the labour movement.

OK, so there's a slight break in jblog's usual stream of coverage, so I'll fill this gap by plugging the Hackney TUC website, to which I've added a

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Hackney TUC went out leafleting against East London Line privatisation earlier this evening.

Last night's Hackney TUC / Leabridge Labour Party meeting with John McDonnell was packed.

Browsing Lansbury's Labour Weekly again, I found this article from June 27 1925. So, what do you reckon? Are union branches obsolete?

Faryal Velmi reports on the Grunwick commemoration event held by Brent Trades Council on 17 September.

Please sign Hackney TUC's online petition.

Around 50 people packed a meeting organised by Hackney TUC to launch a local campaign against the privatisation of the East London Line. The Line - which currently does not serve Hackney - is due to be extended in time for the 2012 Olympics, but will be sold off to private contractors. Stagecoach and National Express are amongst the list of "preferred bidders".

Respect and the SWP in Cambridge have launched a veritable campaign against any support for the Iraqi workers' movement and for Iraqi trade unionists facing murder threats.

The January meeting of Cambridge Trades Union Council (CTUC) passed the following motion: “Cambridge Trades Council condemns the murder of Iraqi trade unionist Hadi Salih [pictured], the murderers of Hadi Salih, and the apologists for the murder and murderers of Hadi Salih.”

Jim Denham recalls the strike support work done in Birmingham

Hackney TUC is holding a meeting to organise opposition to the BNP during the London Assembly and European Elections on June 10.

Tuesday 13 April at 7.30pm

Hackney Trades Union Council is holding a meeting on Wednesday 12 November at 7.30pm at Marcon Court Community Hall (junction of Amhurst Road and Marcon Place).

The Scottish TUC conference unanimously voted to affiliate to the No Sweat campaign and establish links with the FNPBI in Indonesia.

By Janine Booth, President, Hackney Trades Union Council