The Real Scroungers
During this sickening time of the Pandora Papers, mutliple crises, Covid cronyism, Branson, Musk and Bezos flying into space on profits they’ve amassed
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Dastardly duke puts on pressure
Back in December 2018 we reported here on Ralph Percy, the 12th Duke of Northumberland, and his foiled attempt to remove 37 allotments
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Violence Against Women
The recent rape and murder of Sarah Everard highlights the level of misogyny throughout the Metropolitan Police and society in general. The Met
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Strikes in Further and Higher Education
The start of the new academic year has seen a number of strikes throughout both further (FE) and higher education (HE). On September
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Quote of the week – Mother Jones
“I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes.
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Pandora’s Box
The recent leaking of 11.9 million files from offshore companies reveals the corruption of the system and the greed of the rich. In
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Croydon Council – not a friend of the working class
The Labour Council of Croydon, in south west London has long waged a war against its own working class. In summer 2020 it
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Cleaners protests on 8th and 15th October
Facebook cleaners, members of CAIWU (the Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers’ Union) are balloting for strike action over the dismissal of one of
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Workplace Notes: strike news
Manchester TramsManchester Metrolink workers are set to strike on Sunday 10th October, the same day as the Manchester Marathon, over management’s poor pay
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Weetabix Fire and Rehire
Engineers at two Weetabix factories went out on a two-day strike in late September. The workers at Kettering and Corby came out over
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