Workers' Liberty

In Birkenhead in September 1932 there was a demonstration demanding an increase in unemployment relief. More than 10,000 people attended.

Despite a lively campaign against the plans, Barnet’s Conservative Cabinet voted on 8 June to axe the borough’s sheltered housing wardens.

They will be replaced with ‘floating support’ — a much reduced number of wardens operating out of a handful of local ‘hubs’. In theory the floating supporters will also serve elderly residents not in sheltered housing schemes. Since the budget for all of this has been cut from £1.4 million to £950,000 it’s clear that services to elderly people in the borough have been reduced.

Just as the boards were going up on the first of eleven libraries due to be axed by Wirral Council, we were told that the closures would be halted pending a Government enquiry.

When a trade union body is unable to hold its AGM because of disorderly conduct, you might ordinarily suspect that organisations like the BNP are to blame.

The second meeting of the “Checks and Raids” strategy group of the Campaign Against Immigration Controls was on Sunday 7 September. Activists, many new, discussed the situation facing migrant workers in London, with 150 workplace raids happening a week, where hundreds of workers are harassed by immigration officers and the police. Many have been detained and deported. Thousands more are now fearful of these raids.

Brent Trades Council held a meeting of around 50 people to defend a cleaner rep at Stonebridge park depot sacked during the strike - then put its commitment to solidarity into practice immediately by

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

Organise local meetings

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.