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The ATOS Games
Post written by Lucy Stokes Between 27th and 31st August 2012, Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) have organized the ATOS Games, a week of protest actions against ATOS — a controversial company who are one of the major sponsors of the Paralympics. ATOS are currently in receipt of a £100 million contract from the government […]
Successful Occupation of Remploy Offices in Leicester
Today eight recently sacked Remploy workers and union reps occupied the company’s head office in Leicester in a bid to force a recalcitrant management to the table to discuss the ongoing attacks on disabled workers. After having no joy talking on the phone to Remploy executive director of finance Nigel Hopkins, the occupiers finally succeeded […]
Fighting Platinum Murderers
Platinum mining reaps colossal profits for a few, which is derived from the systematic abuse of many others… the others being workers who live in make-shift shacks and daily risk their lives in the employ of a depraved ruling class which craves only precious minerals and broken backs. South African political elites, whether members of […]
National Shop Stewards Network – lobby of the TUC for a 24 hour general strike
The TUC are meeting for the annual conference in Brighton on the 9th September. The Socialist Party supports the call of the National Shop Stewards Network to put pressure on the trade unions to call a general strike against austerity. Transport details for an important lobby of the TUC to call a 24 hour general […]
Caring For Profit
Public services should never be run for private profit; not prisons, not armed forces, nor education or healthcare. Nevertheless capitalist vultures pay no mind to such humane advice and are working hand-in-hand with political elites to undermine the hard-won gains of the working class. Taking his cue from New Labour, former Goldman Sachs merchant banker […]
Recently Published Books in the Leicester City Council Library
Melissa Benn, School wars: The battle for Britain’s education (Verso Books, 2011). Sugata Bose, His Majesty’s opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India’s struggle against empire (Belknap Press, 2011). Simon Butler & Ian Angus, Too many people?: Population, immigration, and the environmental crisis (Haymarket Books, 2011). Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain’s Collusion with Radical Islam (Clipper […]
Staffline’s Labour of Profit
A full-time secure job that pays the bills is all but a distant dream for most people; just as capitalism’s longstanding dream-come-true of a steady flow of flexibly underemployed and poorly paid human fodder is becoming the daily reality for an ever increasing number of people. In this nightmare scenario, temporary recruitment agencies fulfill a […]
Opposing Victimisation at Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station
Last year, after a long and vibrant fight against some of the world’s most powerful capitalists, militant rank-and-file members of Unite were able to defeat their bosses. In this sweet victory, electricians across the country had united and forced some of Britain’s largest construction and engineering companies to jettison their attempts to force workers to […]
Further Action Needed Against Union-Busting Company, 2 Sisters
Workers at RF Brookes of South Wigston, Leicester, are facing the possibility of closure of their factory in a vindictive act by the ‘2 Sisters’ food group that owns it. In May they announced 193 redundancies along with the slashing of previously agreed redundancy terms, meaning that workers could have the double whammy of losing […]
Timeline of 2 Sisters’ Recent Attacks on Workers
Updated July 2016. Midlands: In December 2008, workers at 2 Sisters’ three poultry processing sites in the Midlands in the Unite union balloted for industrial action over low pay. “2 Sisters has offered £214 per week. This is just 8p an hour above the minimum wage for staff who work a 37.5 hour week.” Birmingham: […]
