Campaigners in Newham have secured a significant victory in their efforts to ensure council workers’ pension funds are not invested in companies linked to war, occupation, or human rights abuses.
120 staff, Unison members at Housing Association East End Homes, have been on strike since 1 July against plans to transfer staff from their current pension scheme to an inferior one.
Privatised NHS staff, working for ISS, are taking six days of strike action over two weeks. The workers accuse managers of bullying, including racism, failing to properly pay bank holiday overtime, and unmanageable workload.
NEU members at St Paul’s Way Trust School in Tower Hamlets started six days of strike action on 29 June against compulsory redundancies, and are continuing in July. The school is over-subscribed and has a waiting list of students wanting to join.
Thousands of people from all across Britain gathered in Parliament Square, London, in solidarity with Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Tenants on the St James Estate in Southwark, South London, are fighting mass evictions and unaffordable rent rises after corporate landlord BMR Group Ltd began trying to force residents from their homes.
Life for young people has only become more expensive over 16 years of austerity, as an increasing cost of living has coincided with the trebling of tuition fees.
Labour lost control of Enfield council in the May local elections. Years of disappointment and cuts meant support collapsed, as in so many councils.
Teachers and support staff in the National Education Union (NEU) at Highgate Wood School have now had eight days of strike action in their fight against a package of austerity cuts that threaten to make 10% of staff redundant
BBC Panorama recently detailed allegations of sexual exploitation made against former West Ham United football club chairperson David Sullivan. Sullivan’s previous nickname was ‘King Porn’.
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