Liverpool Social Struggles Newswire Archive

08-07-2006 11:46

Ribble Campaigners Call For Objections To Preston Quarry

Local campaign group "Save The Ribble" are calling for people and organisations to object to proposals for a Quarry at Lower Brockholes, intended to supply concrete to the 'Riverworks' Ribble Barrage. Read more >>

04-07-2006 14:21

This Month's 'News Not Profit' from Liverpool

Read all about it! Smithdown Against Demolition, Walmart, Flyposting, Jerry Springer and much much more.

More content than the Echo and infinitely cheaper! Print up and distribute! Read more >>

04-07-2006 03:10 | 25 comments

BPP in collapse as Sid W gives up

Mind the door... Read more >>

28-06-2006 17:40 | 22 comments

Something has to be done with REDWATCH

Something has to be done with www.redwatch.org.uk, www.redwatch.net, www.redwatch.co.uk Read more >>

28-06-2006 09:04

Mersey Firefighters to Fight Service Cuts

Merseyside firefighters could be forced into strike action to save four fire engines for the region. Read more >>

28-06-2006 09:01 | 1 comment

Shit Treatment for Bootle Civil Servants

The government are conducting a “witch hunt” against trade union leaders, threatening disciplinary action against staff who advised colleagues to go home when office toilets broke down. Read more >>

27-06-2006 12:19 | 3 comments

Wildcat Walkout in Ellesmere Port!

Production at Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port factory was stopped on Monday after staff walked out at neighboring TDS Automotive Logistics. Read more >>

26-06-2006 01:42 | 17 comments

Channel 4's Dispatches: Young, nazi and proud - Mark Collett

If you haven't already seen this, take the opportunity to watch it now. It's well worth it. Read more >>

22-06-2006 17:57

Nerve Magazine Party in Liverpool

Catalyst Media - who publish Liverpool's free grassroots art and politics magazine 'Nerve' - are holding a party at Aigburth Cricket Club (opposite St Michael's station) on Friday, 7th July from 8pm. Read more >>

20-06-2006 18:47

Pathfinder exposed by Corporate Watch

John Prescott's government department may have vanished, but the wrecking ball he has set in motion is still poised to demolish thousands of homes across Northern England and the Midlands - there's far too much money involved to let this one go. Read more >>

20-06-2006 18:14

Remember Des Warren - Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets

3pm, Saturday 5 August 2006 at the Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool
Read more >>

20-06-2006 14:21

Resisting the Neo-liberal City networking event, Sat 24th, Mcr

A networking event for individuals and organisations researching and campaigning on issues related to the neo-liberal city : on the processes of capitalist globalisation and the neo-liberal agenda which shapes it. Read more >>

20-06-2006 01:47

Norris Green Workers Protest Sayers Job Cuts

Nearly a hundred workers and their families took to the streets of Norris Green, Liverpool on Saturday 17th June, in a protest against almost 200 redundancies at Liverpool bakers Sayers. They called on the company to invest in the site to help improve efficiency, rather than make the redundancies. Read more >>

13-06-2006 11:03

Keep Our NHS Public Demo & Meeting

Cuts and job losses will devastate health services. The NHS debt of £800m is less than 1% of its total budget. The government could easily afford to cancel the debt and cancel job cuts. Join together to make them give us the money to run the NHS. Read more >>

12-06-2006 16:46

More McHospitals for Merseyside!

Following hard on the heels of the Liverpool Women's and the Countess of Chester hospitals, two more local hospital trusts have applied for 'foundation' status - opening healthcare up for private profit. Read more >>

10-06-2006 23:22 | 1 comment

Class Composition in the North East, Sat 17th June 2006

The working class in the North East has changed since WWII, and in the past 20 years change at work (or not) has been rapid, but working class cultures continue. The old working class traditions and strategy have outlived their usefulness, and now something new is required to meet 21st century challenges. Read more >>

09-06-2006 15:53 | 1 comment

Liverpool Housing Disaster

John Prescott's plans to demolish hundreds of houses in working class areas of Liverpool will be as disastrous as similar programmes in the 1950s and 1960s, a public inquiry was told yesterday. Read more >>

08-06-2006 13:48

Wirral NHS Cuts Boost Private Sector

Following yesterday's publication of the NHS deficit figures (

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5055602.stm), Wirral Hospital Trust has announced it will slash its budget by £21.5 million over the next five years. Read more >>

05-06-2006 21:56

Liverpool Democracy Forum 2nd meeting...

The first meeting of the Liverpool Democracy Forum
met at the Crown, on Lime Street close to Lime Street
Station, at 7.30pm on the first Wednesday in May 3rd.

The second meeting is this Wednesday 7th June at the
same venue, same time. Read more >>

05-06-2006 21:45 | 3 comments

'Good and wholesome' BNP blames media for wet nazi vicar horror

If you didn't laugh, you'd throw up Read more >>