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Dan Morgan, a former soldier, has called an anti-austerity protest in Trafalgar Square on May 4th. He set up a facebook group by himself and more than two thousand have responded to his call. Not being part of the traditional left here he explains his journey from soldier to activist.   My journey from Soldier […] Read more »

  Tonight 600 people crammed into the Archway Methodist Church. The meeting, chaired by Jeremy Corbyn MP,  heard speakers from Keep Our NHS Public, Defend the Whittington Hospital Campaign and other local MPs outline the next steps in the struggle to defend the services provided at the Whittington Hospital. The Board of the  Hospital has […] Read more »

Monday, February 11, 2013 Last night Greek musicians including Vasilis Papakonstantinou, who has worked closely with Mikis Theodorakis, Giannis Haroulis and others performed a benefit concert for the workers who are occupying the Vio.Me factory in Thessaloniki. The striking workers there had not been paid since May 2011. They have decided to restart production under […] Read more »

In the corridors of power, the idea of free education has in 10 years somehow become an almost unutterably radical demand, says student leader Michael Chessum Almost exactly three years ago, on 6 February 2010, the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts was founded at a conference in University College London, in opposition to the then-New Labour […] Read more »

Yesterday,  Sunday, February 10th, New York labour and community organisations joined bus drivers in a protest march in a protest march over the Brooklyn Bridge culminating in a rally outside City Hall. They went to demand that Mayor Bloomberg back down on a decision to re-negotiate their contracts. The march and rally were held with […] Read more »

The Coalition of Resistance National Council met today at the Unite headquarters. About 40 delegates from local anti-cuts groups and campaigns came together to hear reports from Keep Our NHS Public and from the COR officers group. The Save London’s NHS, week of action begins tomorrow. The campaign kicks off with a press conference at […] Read more »

Ellenor Hutson writes on her experience of being on the construction blacklist When I opened a recent letter from my Union, Unite, I was expecting to find a circular or, if I was really lucky, a complementary diary. Instead, I found a letter informing me I was on the Construction Blacklist. The Construction Blacklist, as […] Read more »

Julia Jones, who will have to live on just £53 a week, faces losing the home and garden where she scattered her husband’s ashes Dear Mr Cameron I heard you in Prime Minister’s Questions say you would look at individual cases on the bedroom tax. I am 59 years old, David (my husband) and I […] Read more »

  Kate Hudson reports from the 36th Congress of the French Communist Party in Paris Confit duck legs for a thousand? No problem. The French Communist Party displayed its strengths this week in more ways than one. Its 36th Congress opened in the Docks d’Aubervilliers, a former industrial estate on the northern fringes of Paris […] Read more »

Sophie Katz writes on the latest Left Unity meeting Time to Party On the 4th of Feb a ‘November 14 Left Unity’ group held a meeting about a new party. Good turn out. Not too old. Some interesting points made. Everybody tried very hard not to be sectarian. Lots of self-criticism about ‘my old organisation.’ […] Read more »