From RevLeft - UPR Students Clash with Riot Police at University Plaza by CMI-Puerto Rico Friday - pr@indymedia.org Spanish source with photos: http://pr.indymedia.org/news/2011/01/46923.php Translator's note: For those who haven't followed, this is the next chapter in a nine-month-long struggle at the University of Puerto Rico. Since the first 60-day long strike last April, students have used ...
CS members Alfred Stevens originally wrote this for 'The Commune' website. The 1,200 striking workers at Europe’s biggest food manufacturing plant, the Heinz factory in Kitt Green of Wigan, suffered the first defeat in their ongoing struggle against the management and owners of the company, as the senior stewards decided to call off the 24 hour ...
The public sector strike victory has been won despite, not because of, the SACP, writes Peter Manson As I write, the two-week South African public sector strike that has particularly hit schools and hospitals is on the verge of being settled. Over a million workers belonging to unions affiliated to the Congress ...
The industrial unrest at the Morning Star, involving the Communist Party of Britain and National Union of Journalists, cannot be put down to unreasonable workers, argues James Turley. Readers of the Morning Star, by and large, are well acquainted with trade union issues and the occasional dispute - the paper being, after all, the trade union ...
The executive of Leeds University Union (LUU) has released a statement launching a campaign against any strike action to save jobs. They wrote “It’s time to put your education first” totally forgetting that the only way to save jobs and the education is to take decisive action. If the lecturers fail to take action against ...
The sign on the door of the Women’s Library said it all. The private view of the exhibition “Striking Women” had been cancelled – due to strike action! Stuart King reports on the ongoing struggle at the London Met against cuts and redundancies. The pickets were out again on Thursday and Friday last week in the ...
Simon Wells reports on the rally in support of striking Tower Hamlets College workers At Tower Hamlets College in East London, for over a three weeks now, 250 members of staff have been on indefinite strike. The strike is against education cuts at the college affecting places for people who want to study ESOL (English for ...
James Turley draws lessons from the Lindsey workers’ victory A protracted and hard-fought struggle has drawn to a close at the Lindsey oil refinery (LOR). And there is little doubt over who has come out on top - all the workers’ demands have been met, including the reinstatement of nearly 700 made redundant and sacked, guarantees ...
Across the country, university staff are facing growing redundancies, increased hours and heavier workloads – the only thing shrinking is their pay packets. The Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) has sparked this dispute by offering workers a desultory 0.3% pay offer! In real terms, this is a cut as inflation runs at 2.9%. On ...
Faced with massive job cuts, workers at London Metropolitan University have voted to strike. The strike will take place on May 7, and is a one day strike. This does leave the door open to further action in the furture and also action short of strike. The National Union of Students has come out against lecturers ...
Pupils at Calder Valley High School in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire have staged a protest walk-out in protest at the suspension of two teachers - Mrs Rusty and Mr Cann. Over 250 students were involved in the protest in a fantastic show of support for the teachers. Calum Paramor, a Year 11 student who helped to organise ...
Special report from Frances Grahl, a student in Tours, on the general strike and growing student unrest in France France came together for a day on Thursday 29th January as public and private sector unions came out in a general strike. Between 11 and 2.52 million people marched to protest against a series of government reforms ...
James Turley constrasts different left approaches to the 'British jobs' dispute Protests against the effects of the economic downturn are becoming more and more widespread. The Greek youth rebellion, the sweeping away of the neoconservative government in Iceland, rallies across Russia, the 24-hour general strike in France, mass demonstrations in Latvia and Lithuania and now, Britain: ...