Tweet To be honest I have found the press reaction to Ed Miliband’s speech at TUC Congress rather annoying. Of course he was heckled by a minority of delegates; that was always going to happen. But as we can seen from the delegates reaction on Pete Murray’s film, most were listening attentively, and UNISON delegate John Gray reports [...]
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The state of unions in Britain
Sep 7th, 2011 by Andy Newman.Tweet The General Council Report for the next week’s TUC Congress in London is a very useful document. The quoted statistics concerning union membership are sobering. In April, they recorded a union density amongst employees of 26.6%. In the public sector, it remained stable at just over 56 per cent but in the private sector density fell [...]
March for the Alternative – the movie
Apr 3rd, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Tweet This short film, funded by Philosophy Football, tells the story of one group of campaigners, from Northampton and their journey to join the big 26 March. It’s a lovely record of the day but let it also inspire your future campaigning. Bookmarks Hide Sites
Support UK Uncut and those arrested at Fortnum & Mason – “non-violent and sensible,” innocent and victimised
Mar 31st, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Tweet In a few short months, UK Uncut has reshaped public opinion on tax avoidance. Its peaceful actions, light-hearted and engaging people never previously involved in political activity, have left corporate Britain running scared, forced the Treasury to run training sessions in response and thrown the right-wing anti-tax Tax Payers Alliance onto the defensive. In [...]
Cuts are not the cure
Mar 31st, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Tweet A brilliant animation based on the arguments in False Economy’s “Cuts are the wrong cure” section. Bookmarks Hide Sites
About those “peaceful” suffragettes
Mar 29th, 2011 by Owen Jones.Tweet Firstly, a defence of Ed Miliband. He has been savaged from both left and right for speaking at the TUC’s historic demonstration against the cuts on Saturday. Some activists booed him as he spoke, angered by any association between Labour and the anti-cuts movement. The criticisms from the right, meanwhile, have been largely predictable: [...]
Labour must get back in touch
Mar 24th, 2011 by Mark Seddon.Tweet I have a photograph back home taken in 1978. It is of a demonstration organised by local trade unions in the town of Trowbridge in Wiltshire. I was barely seventeen years old at the time, but there we are marching underneath a banner that reads ‘Wiltshire Against the Cuts’, Tony Benn, the then local [...]
The Budget: as trade unions see it
Mar 23rd, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Tweet Trade Unions were never going to see much for them in this budget. Millionaire George Osborne’s claim that “we’re all in this together” never had much credibility with the workers. Even the promise he made in the June 2010 budget statement of a pay rise of £250 for the lowest paid public sector workers, he [...]
The Cuts Game
Mar 23rd, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Tweet This is our favourite from the TUC’s 60-second ad contest, with a theme of public spending cuts. See other winning entries at False Economy, and on the big screen in Hyde Park at the March for the Alternative. Bookmarks Hide Sites
Ed Miliband will protest on March 26 – and it matters
Feb 10th, 2011 by Owen Jones.Tweet So, it’s official. Ed Miliband will be speaking at the TUC’s ‘March For The Alternative‘ demonstration on 26th March. Well, that’s what Peter Hain told me on Twitter today, and I’m willing to take his word for it. Cue right-wing hysteria about ‘Red Ed’. In other countries, no-one would blink if the left-of-centre opposition leader [...]
