John Millington says he feels like a media guerrilla, with limited resources and guile, trying to amplify a small yet vital voice within the mainstream media. Alarm blaring out, birds singing cheerily and the soft tones of John Humphries of R4 fame will soon be filling the room with the news of the day. This is […]
Stop TTIP – to save our NHS
Oct 8th, 2014 by John Millington.Activists from across Europe will descend on major cities at the weekend to protest against the imposition of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (or TTIP) – a “free trade agreement” between the US and the EU. Rarely does one issue help galvanise continental wide disapproval but in the case of TTIP, people from across […]
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TUC: Chuka Umunna’s pro-worker, pro-business agenda means business as usual
Sep 10th, 2014 by John Millington.Have you heard the news? Workers and bosses have the same interests. That’s right. The biggest and most significant social divide in capitalist Britain today, the key battleground between those who produce the wealth and those who own it is apparently no longer an issue. According Labour leading light Chuka Umunna, Labour’s shadow business secretary, […]
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Qatar: Concern grows for missing human rights investigators
Sep 4th, 2014 by John Millington.Two British human rights campaigners, investigating the treatment of migrant workers in Qatar have gone missing. Ghimire Gundev and Krishna Upadhyaya were last seen on Sunday when they sent panicked texts to colleagues saying they were being followed by police. Speaking to ITV News, the Norwegian charity employing the men said it had yet to receive […]
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Austerity: trade unions agree coordinated strike action on 14 Oct against pay freeze
Aug 3rd, 2014 by John Millington.Three of Britain’s biggest unions have agreed to escalate their dispute over pay with a coordinated strike in October, days before a massive demonstration against cuts. The three unions – GMB, UNISON and Unite, have agreed that their members will run a coordinated strike of their local government and school members in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on […]
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Reshuffle: ‘Gove Out’ is a hollow victory for education campaigners
Jul 15th, 2014 by John Millington.For a man who has had an online game dedicated to slapping him millions of times, it is some what of an achievement that Michael Gove has lasted as long as he has. Derided by teachers and the butt of jokes over his condemnation of strike action despite his union past (he was a member […]
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July 10 strike: Government picks fight with public sector workers
Jul 9th, 2014 by John Millington.This Thursday, one and a half million workers including firefighters, teachers, civil servants and local government staff will exercise their democratic right to strike. On the surface the dispute is over pay and pensions but the strike is being billed as a wider protest against cuts to public services and the detriment caused to service […]
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Boycotting Qatar World Cup 2022
May 19th, 2014 by John Millington.Sport and the left have not always been the most comfortable of bedfellows. Despite many famous left leaning sports stars over the years, sport remains associated with individual achievement and cut throat competition. Yet the major international trade union campaign set to dominate the rest of the 2020’s involves arguably the biggest sporting event; the Qatar […]
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Turkish mine disaster: unions blame “murderous” lack of safety & privatisation
May 15th, 2014 by John Millington.Turkish trade unions are staging a one day strike today in protest at the Soma mine disaster which has left over 200 dead. An as yet unexplained explosion took the lives of 246 miners and around 700 may still be trapped underground. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited the area but had his car attacked as […]
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Wolverhampton Council cuts: What are the alternatives?
Mar 19th, 2014 by John Millington.Wolverhampton – the home of the once mighty Wolves football team and the former workshop of the world in manufacturing, has been dealt a crushing 21st century economic body blow. Council bosses revealed to their stunned workforce this month that 2000 of them will almost certainly be made redundant following the latest round of cuts to […]
