Campaign news

Solidarity with PCS: Support strike on Budget Day!

Over 250,000 members of the PCS union will be taking further strike action on Budget Day 2010, Wednesday 24th March. This follows two days of action on 8th and 9th March to defend the Civil Service Compensation Scheme (CSCS).  [continue...]

Women hunger strikers under threat of deportation

Over 22 women are still on hunger strike in Yarl’s Wood Removal Centre. Five are on suicide watch and one has been taken to health care after self-harming. At least eight women have been threatened with removal since the start of the hunger strike on 5 February. Four women were transferred to prison. Three women have managed to stop their removals and others are in the process of doing so with the help of supporters and lawyers. At least five women have been released. Some have been referred to lawyers because they suffered violence and racist abuse from guards or because their detention is illegal. [continue...]

Albert Booth: “One of those principled, socialist rocks that our movement was built on”

The labour and trade union movement mourns the passing of Albert Booth former Labour Member of Parliament for Barrow-in-Furness and Secretary of State for Employment from 1976 to 1979.  [continue...]

Support Airplot! Stop Heathrow Expansion

In 2009, activists against the third runway bought a piece of land slap bang in the middle of the proposed third runway site at Heathrow. Now there is a campaign to get 100,000 people to sign up as beneficial owners of ‘Airplot’ - the piece of land owned by those opposed to Heathrow expansion. You can become a beneficial owner for FREE, so sign up today. [continue...]

Lee signs up to CarerWatch pledge

Lee Skevington, Labour PPC for Yeovil, has signed up to the CarerWatch pledge to End Carer Poverty.  [continue...]

Over 100 Labour MPs sign motion opposing Government attack on civil servants

Over 100 Labour MPs have now signed an Early Day Motion calling on the Government to think again on its “unfair proposals” which would tear up the terms and conditions of civil and public servants.  [continue...]