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14 January 2013
Joint union protest as Barking and Dagenham Labour council forces through cuts
Union members protested outside Barking and Dagenham Civic Centre when the council passed £18 million in cuts
20 July 2012
Reports and videos of the Remploy strike
Thirty Remploy workers formed a confident picket line across two entrances of the biggest Remploy factory in London
Drivers at the Longbridge Road bus garage in Barking out on the picket line, photo Hannah Sell
22 June 2012
Reports: (last updated Sat 6pm) At 6 am an impressive 100 of the 400 workers at Longbridge Road bus garage in Barking were out on the picket line.
EDL in Barking
16 January 2012
EDL intimidation fails in Barking
Protected by a large wedge of police, roughly 100 supporters of the racist and divisive English Defence League (EDL) marched through Barking town centre in east London on Saturday 14 January...
RMT general secretary Bob Crow addresses an RMT protest against the BNP in Barking, east London, photo Senan
8 December 2010
TV documentary, reviewed by Naomi Byron
DESPITE THE crushing electoral defeat for the British National Party (BNP) in May 2010, and the internal struggles it caused them, the discontent and anger they were exploiting still exist in Barking...
Youth Fight For Jobs march 2 April 2009, photo Paul Mattsson
21 April 2010
Why the BNP offers no way forward for working class people
Jobs and homes - not racism: In last year's European elections the British National Party (BNP) got just under a million votes, 6.4% of the total votes cast...
14 April 2010
RMT union challenges far-right in Barking
THE RMT rail workers' union called a meeting in Barking on Sunday 11 April. The aim was to convince people in Barking, who are understandably angry with New Labour's cuts record, not to vote for the...
24 March 2010
Civil Servants strike on budget day
Pickets were out in force for the second time, taking strike action to stop cuts in the Civil Service Compensation Scheme, which would leave many PCS members tens of thousands of pounds worse off in the event of voluntary or compulsory redundancy. Reports from round the country.
24 March 2010
Barking council: Late developers
THE LABOUR-run council in the east London borough of Barking and Dagenham has - after more than 25 years - commissioned the building of 63 new council properties for rent...
Barking Youth Fight for Jobs demo, photo Paul Mattsson
17 March 2010
Youth Fight for Jobs day of action
On Saturday 13 March Youth Fight for Jobs organised demonstrations and campaigning activity against youth unemployment, cuts in education and the racist BNP in Manchester, Barking in East London and Yorkshire...
14 March 2010
Video: Successful Youth Fight for Jobs demo in Barking, London
1 million young people. That's one in five of us who can't get a job, can't get into education. Bankers and the bosses, who caused the crisis in the economy, have been looked after by the government.
12 March 2010
Youth Fight for Jobs demonstrates in Barking (London) and Manchester
Call for jobs and homes not racism put forward by unemployed and trade union youth: Youth Fight for Jobs are demonstrating in Barking, starting in Mayesbrook Park (Nearest tube Upney) at 12 noon, and central Manchester, 12 noon, All Saints Park, Oxford Road...
PCS workers on strike at the Passport Office, photo Socialist Party Wales
10 March 2010
Civil Servants Strike reports (updated)
Members of the PCS civil servants' union took strike action today to oppose the changes to the civil service compensation scheme.
Leeds Youth Fight For Jobs demo February 2010, photo Leeds Socialist Party
3 March 2010
Invest in jobs, education & Training
We don't want to see a 'lost generation': "We should try to work with the masters of globalisation" These were the words of Professor Don Nutbeam...
24 February 2010
How can the racist BNP be defeated?
UAF conference shows debate needed: Thousands of pounds of trade union members' money is given to campaigns such as Unite Against Fascism (UAF) and Hope Not Hate every year to help combat the rise of far-right, racist groups like the British National Party (BNP), writes A GMB member.
Youth Fight for Jobs, photo Sarah Mayo
19 January 2010
Youth Fight for Jobs - demonstrate on 13 March
Barking in east London is a deprived area by most measures, consistently facing attacks on services, jobs and homes, writes Suzanne Beishon, Youth Fight for Jobs, London organiser.
Youth Fight for Jobs demonstration 28 November 2009, photo Dave Carr
9 December 2009
Youth Fight for Jobs organises demo in Barking
The London borough of Barking and Dagenham is an area particularly blighted by capitalism's failure...
15 December 2006
BNP fiasco but vigilance essential
Barking and Dagenham: AS RICHARD Barnbrook, leader of Barking and Dagenham council's far-right BNP group, started ranting down his megaphone, over 300 anti-fascists ran to the park perimeter to drown him out...
25 October 2003
Postal workers determined to fight
AT THE same time as CWU strikers rallied in central London, 65 postal workers met in Dagenham, east London. Bob Gibson, a national CWU official, was there to address rank-and-file activists, writes Manny Thain.
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