<>Members of Defend Welfare Newcastle (including benefits claimants) and Tyne & Wear Left Unity, were joined by a “Fat Cat” when they offered support to striking workers at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).  By attending pickets, and a rally at Newcastle Monument, organised by the PCS Union during their strike on March 8th and 9th, they showed their solidarity with workers at the DWP, i...

<>Here is a round up of the recent struggles and events in Preston, based around the future of the ...

York University - Derwent College, room D/056

Below is an audio report on the demonstration held on Thursday 25th February in Leeds by staff and students against education cuts.

Leeds University Parkinson steps.

Leeds University Parkinson Steps

<>Peter Mandelson is acting as 'Visitor' to Leeds Uni to check it's playing by the rules after UCU ...

<>In recent weeks a struggle has begun to emerge at the University of Leeds. The university management is claiming that they need to cut spending by £35 million due to the economic crisis. The lecturers union (UCU) rightfully claims this could cause the loss of 700 jobs. The effects will go beyond just job losses but will continue the degradation of education caused by deep rooted systematic prob...

<>Bowing to the inevitable, Bradford Council confirmed this morning that the hoardings around the Westfield[1] hole would be taken down soon, and the area within partly landscaped. Alas the wide-open vistas we dreamed of will still be blocked by the maroon hoarding being repositioned around the massive hole at the centre of the project, with little perspex windows through which public art may be...

Leeds University is facing 700 job cuts and the UCU is balloting on strike action.  The University is cutting £35 million of spending of which 60% will be from staff cuts.  It gets £30.8 million in tuition fees.  The Leeds student union, LUU are against the strike and have not come out against the job cuts.

<>Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty report on this case of an agency worker shafted by a Leeds ba...

Bradford Resource Centre, 17-21 Chapel Street Bradford, BD1 5DT

 Posted by North League Against War, based in Leeds

Two more reports from the GAZA convoy people, one from Code pink in the USA, including a copy of the CAIRO DECLARATION, January 1, 2010.......End Israeli Apartheid, a new organising venture.

 

<><>And now the threat comes from the Egyptian government, now that it become abundantly clear that the plight of the Palestinians is as much the fault of...

<>Background to the ending of the recent Gaza relief convoy, illustrating the actions of the Egyptian government, in its attempts to dissuade people from any thoughts of further convoys, which undoubtedly there will be. With proof again of the complicity of governments surrounding Palestine in support of the Israeli state. Also fully illustrates the determination of the people on the convoy to do...

<>The Earth First! Winter moot is an opportunity for people who feel affiliation with the ideas behind Earth First! to network, discuss and reflect on the UK ecological direct action movement and to plan for the future. Earth First! is about direct action to halt the destruction of the Earth. We believe we can make a real difference by doing it ourselves rather than relying on leaders, government...

1in12 Club, 21-23 Albion Street, Bradford BD1 2LY

December 9, 2009, Leeds, UK.

Profit Playground with the Royal Bank of Scotland.  Games at Natwest Bank (owned RBS) in the Centre of Leeds.  People and Planet.

On Thursday 26th November 2009 Leeds University Union Feminist Society held a Love Music Hate Sexism fundraiser for Behind Closed Doors, a local charity providing support for women suffering from domestic violence which is currently under threat.

A self-organised group a cyclists from Leeds, Bradford, and other locations along the route departed from Bradford on Monday morning, en route for London on 5th December, to participate in the march there which is itself part of the countdown to Cop15.

<>Calling at Sheffield (Mon evening), Nottingham (Tue), Peterborough (Wed), Cambridge (Thu), and Walthamstow (Fri), the cyclists aim to raise awar...

Some nimble young thing snuck into the Westfield site in the centre of Bradford to record a little ditty.

Denaby & Cadeby Miners' Welfare Club, Tickhill Square, Denaby Main, Doncaster, South Yorkshire DN12 4AW

Rally at Leeds University against a proposed 10% (£35 million) budget slash by the Vice Chancellor.  Speeches and chants followed by the Vice Chancellor being handed a petition, and finally an attempt to enter the building.

New information about a lost chapter of County Durham and working class history is coming to light. Here, a press release which describes the search for relatives of Percy Fisher and further research which is being carried out in South Africa.

Manchester University & Manchester Metropolitan University

 

Dance for Action!

A fundraiser for Climate Justice Action (CJA) to help mobilize for Copenhagen!

An open mic night for Climate Justice: Come with songs, music, poetry, performance! anything you name it.

Tea, info, and vegan cake will be provided!!!

Where? Brudenell Social Club
When: Tuesday 17th. 7pm.

£3.50

Tell your friends!