On Sunday 8th January 2012, Merseyside Police attempted to illegally evict Occupy Liverpool from their city centre squat. A member of Liverpool Solidarity Federation was in attendance to observe and lend assistance to the occupiers.
The City Council are voting on another huge cuts package, affecting everyone of you, come down and voice your opposition to the savage cuts of the city council.
200 Liverpool workers, employees of Liverpool Mutual Homes, are facing the sack.
Passed from pillar to post, between different private companies, they have found themselves at the sharp end of Liverpool City Council’s privatisation agenda.
Over the last ten years, the workers, who provide housing and repair services to the city’s social housing tenants, have struggled against a constant attack on their livelihoods.
The Ryanair Don't Care campaign, supported by Liverpool Solidarity Federation, is calling for an international week of action against exploitation and recruitment-scamming by Ryanair starting on March 12th 2012.
The Ryanair Don't Care Campaign was started by John Foley when his daughter was sacked as a flight attendant mid-flight and abandoned abroad, penniless. This would lead to the exposure of a cynical and highly exploitative recruitment scam by the airline.
The Ryanair Don't Care campaign, supported by Liverpool Solidarity Federation, is calling for an international week of action against exploitation and recruitment-scamming by Ryanair starting on March 12th 2012.
The Ryanair Don't Care Campaign was started by John Foley when his daughter was sacked as a flight attendant mid-flight and abandoned abroad, penniless. This would lead to the exposure of a cynical and highly exploitative recruitment scam by the airline.
After sitting in the files for two years this hour-long talk in Manchester by a member of the Spanish Confederación Nacional del Trabajo has only just been formatted and uploaded to the web. In it, the formative years of what would become the largest anarchist organisation in history are described in detail, from 1840 when socialist ideas first started to penetrate into the Iberian Penninsula, up to its establishment as one of the biggest players in 20th century Spanish politics, one which would influence the world in unexpected and far-reaching ways.
Come and join the Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP and DCLG ministers at the annual Conservative Local Government Conference 2012.
Registration starts at 11.15, and the conference starts at 12.00. Demonstration will be from 10.15 at the Queens hotel in Leeds. Bring lots of banners etc and lets give them all a warm welcome!
The Liverpool Labour Party has called a demonstration outside Royal Liverpool Hospital, urging people to "join your Local MPs & Councillors" and "make our voices heard, in the campaign for the future of our NHS." Saving the NHS is indeed one of the most important fights in the battle against the cuts, but the Labour Party will not be the saviour of our health service.
Cleaners at the Guildhall have been holding a sit in and stopping work since the 22nd of December because of mistreatment and intimidation. Early this morning management called the police, who came and intimidated and threatened the cleaners. The cleaners protested that they were holding a completely peaceful sit-in. They finally left due to police threats to drag them out physically.
The following is a report by our Portuguese sister organisation about austerity measures and the recent general strike..
On the last 24th November a new general strike took place in Portugal, exactly one year after the previous one. This was the seventh general strike in Portugal in 37 years and the third convoked by the two main labor unions CGTP and UGT.