A report has claimed that East End schools are dividing by race.
While 17 Tower Hamlets primary schools have more than 90%+ Bangladeshi pupils, nine have fewer than 10%. Three of the borough's 15 secondaries have less than 3% Bangladeshi pupils, while two have more than 95% Bangladeshi pupils and...
Mansour Osanloo, president of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company in Iran was last week sentenced to five years in prison, according to the International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran (IASWI), based in Canada.
On 28 May, a Tehran revolutionary court sentenced Osanloo...
A TubeLines Site Person in Charge accepted a forged Permit to Enter to a machine chamber at Old Street. The Station Supervisor picked up on it, and the unauthorised person left the station, but TubeLines did not query their procedures on how this had come about.
Under the new Rule Book, Station...
Yesterday, RMT's General Grades Committee (the Executive minus the Shipping representatives) voted to cancel the union's dispute with the employers over the Rule Book, using a legal hitch as a pretext. The union has voluntarily abandoned a battle before it had even really started. It is a shocking...
At yesterday's RMT Regional Council, our new women's newsletter had its first outing, with 500 copies distributed amongst delegates. Mostly, it was well-received, welcomed by both women and (most) men, who expect it to go down very well in the workplaces.
I say "most" because in the bar afterwards...
Review of Paul Burkett, 2006, Marxism and Ecological Economics, Amsterdam: Brill
The conventional wisdom among Greens is that, so far as environmental struggles go, the organised labour movement is only occasionally an ally and often an opponent. Most ecologists dismiss Marxism as having little to...
Two wee anecdotes:
1. A couple of people I know who live in the Clapton Pond area have recently been the unfortunate victims of crime. One has had his car stolen for the second time in the last year. The other was forced to hand over his motorbike at knifepoint.
This area used to get quite a bit...
Metronet continues to spiral towards disaster, and has revealed new plans to make its workforce pay the price.
Metronet claims that it needs to cut the...
Recently I went to a lecture by Joel Kovel, a leading US eco-socialist and author of the book, The Enemy of Nature. The meeting was chaired by Derek Wall from the Green Party and had Jane Kelly from Socialist Resistance on the platform. Over 50 people were there.
Kovel spoke well enough about the...
The Women and Work Commission was New Labour's attempt to address the embarrassment and injustice of the enduring gender pay gap. But its report was woeful, in great part blaming women and girls for going into low-paid jobs and men and boys for renouncing those jobs for better-paid work. Bastards...
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