Liverpool Social Struggles Newswire Archive

29-11-2006 09:20 | 1 comment

NHS Blood Workers See Red

Workers are considering a walkout to stop the government closing 14 regional blood centres around England. Read more >>

27-11-2006 16:02 | 5 comments

Empty property in Farnborough town centre

Council turns blind eye to empty property and worse still condones a housing association that deliberately vandalises empty maisonettes to render uninhabitable. Read more >>

23-11-2006 13:15 | 8 comments

Join the UAF Blackpool protest against the BNP conference

Final reminder: UAF protest against BNP conference in Blackpool, Saturday 25 November Read more >>

22-11-2006 12:47 | 3 comments

Info leak on secret BNP conference

This weekend (Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th) the BNP are holding their national conference and demo in Blackpool.
The location is supposed to be secret but local sources believe that The De Vere Hotel is the most likely location.
The demo is going to be on Saturday near the Winter Gardens. The police have nice little protest pens all ready for the fascists.
Read more >>

20-11-2006 18:35

Anti-racist/anti-deportation protest - Saturday 25 November 2006

Anti-racist activists from NWASDG and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! will be holding another anti-deportation protest on Saturday 25 November from 12-3pm on Market Street in Manchester city centre. Read more >>

19-11-2006 20:20

Viva Six Fingers - Community Facilities, Canterbury Hall and the River Ribble

A group of squatters is facing eviction from the Community Centre they are occupying. The Church has sold it to private developers to turn into luxury flats.
This article compares the campaign to save the community centre with 'Save The Ribble's' campaign to defend community facilities like football pitches and allotments on the banks of the River Ribble, as well as the precious Ribble Estuary itself. Read more >>

15-11-2006 03:58 | 1 addition | 13 comments

Blackpool demonstration against the BNP conference

North West Region UAF together with Blackpool Fylde and Wyre TUC have called a demonstration against the British National Party holding their badly-named Annual Conference in Blackpool. Read more >>

15-11-2006 01:18 | 5 comments

Unions Fight Own Members!

Officials from the TGWU, Amicus and the GMB are backing the Jaguar car company rather than their own members in a pay dispute! Read more >>

05-11-2006 23:07 | 3 comments

Benn Speaks in His Favorite City

Merseyside STWC welcomed Palestinian delegation and Tony Benn to Liverpool
Read more >>

31-10-2006 00:51

NWDA Ignores Local Views To Allocate Cash To Environmentally Damaging Developmen

The North West Development Agency has agreed 'in principle' to allocate £18m to a project to barrage the River Ribble and build over 4000 new houses in its floodplain.
Local people are livid, they have never been consulted on this project and are appalled at the disregard shown by Preston City Council for the environment and for local people. Read more >>

27-10-2006 03:17 | 4 comments

Three jailed for racially-motivated bombing but who cares?

Another explosives case that's lipped under the radar... Read more >>

23-10-2006 21:00 | 1 addition | 5 comments

Media blackout on explosives case continues

The silence is deafening... Read more >>

20-10-2006 06:02 | 6 comments

Sharon Ebanks and the BNP

Worth reading Read more >>

18-10-2006 21:14

Rossport Solidarity demo, Manchester Business School, Oct 26th

Picket of Manchester Busines School called for Thursday 26th Oct - 11.30 - 2pm. Calling for the MBS to have Shell removed from their list of sponsors, unless Shell ceases its attempts to destroy the environment in Rossport, Co Mayo, Ireland. Read more >>

17-10-2006 17:11 | 2 comments

Pathfinder hits the buffer

Thanks to the courageous and determined efforts of a handful of local campaigners in Liverpool, the neo-Labour Pathfinder project appears to have been derailed. Read more >>

09-10-2006 16:45

Close down Dallas Court!, Fri 13 Oct 2006

The next protest in the series of monthly protests at Dallas Court Reporting Centre, Salford Quays, will be held on Friday 13 October at 12-2pm. People, including women, chidren and victims of rape and torture, are kidnapped daily at Dallas Court and taken to detention centres. Many who escape kidnap also report being racially abused and insulted regularly by racist staff at Dallas Court. NWASDG and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! (FRFI) urges everyone to attend and to support and publicise these protests against the oppression of asylum seekers by this racist Labour government.

Nearest Tram 'Broadway'. Read more >>

09-10-2006 14:28 | 1 comment

Another corporate beast behind 'NHS Logistics' privatisation

Most people will have heard about the selling off of a massive area of the NHS to the private 'German' distributor, DHL, who this month are poised to takeover (from NHS Logistics) the warehousing and supply of thousands of items used by NHS hospitals and GP surgeries across the country. What is less widely mentioned in the press, perhaps as it's not as obvious in terms of effect on front-line public sector jobs, is that a massive US procurement operation Novation is also behind the new contract. Brought in to save money we are told, this Texan based company is under investigation by the US justice department for overcharging federal healthcare programmes for goods! Read more >>

05-10-2006 17:41

Justice For Cammell Laird

In 1984, thirty seven GMB members were jailed for a month for contempt of Court for participating in a lawful, legitimate dispute at the Cammell Laird Shipyard, Birkenhead, Merseyside. Since then our members have fought for justice for Cammell Laird workers. Read more >>

02-10-2006 17:01 | 10 comments

London Social Forum – housing and land rights conference

At the request of the European Social Forum and to coincide with World Habitat Day, a meeting to discuss housing and land rights issues entitled the Divided City was held by London Social Forum at Limehouse Town Hall in East London on Sunday 1 October 2006. Speakers and delegates came from across Europe and from further afield. Read more >>

30-09-2006 20:45

Details Of Merseyside Firefighters' Agreement

Following a strike that lasted nearly four weeks, details of the agreement between Fire Brigades Union and Merseyside Fire Authority have been announced. Is this a taste of things to come in Staffordshire and around the country? Read more >>