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7 March 2013
Hull, Warrington, Bristol and Bradford
Three Hull councillors remain defiant against Labour budget: Three Hull councillors, Gary Wareing, Dean Kirk and Gill Kennett, broke the Labour whip and voted against council budget cuts on Thursday 28 February, writes Phil Culshaw, Hull Unison steward (personal capacity).
5 March 2013
Labour-led council inflicting £82 million of cuts
Bradford's Labour and Green councillors do Pickles' dirty work, while Respect just abstains
7 November 2012
Bradford's Hardest Hit lobby council
Around 25 people, mostly from the Bradford Disabled Peoples Forum, held a Hardest Hit protest in Centenary Square, Bradford on Friday 2 November...
4 September 2012
Bradford demo against Galloway's rape comments
On Saturday 1st September around 100 men and women gathered in Bradford city centre to protest against MP for Bradford West, George Galloway's, recent ridiculous and offensive comments about rape...
2 April 2012
George Galloway's stunning Bradford West victory
Potential shown for anti-cuts election challenges: Support for the main parties haemorrhaged in Bradford West, as Respect's George Galloway swept back into parliament
2 November 2011
Bradford joins the 'Occupy' movement
Following Occupy London Stock Exchange (LSX), and similar protests in Glasgow, Nottingham, Bristol and Newcastle, among others, a group has now established Occupy Bradford
Strikers gather in Liverpool's Lime Street surrounding trams during ‘Red Sunday’ on 13th August 1911, photo Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Libraries
17 August 2011
When the press raged about 'mob rule': "Mobs" control British cities. "We are facing an absolute disintegration of society." "Yesterday mob law reigned in London."
HMRC strike, Coventry
9 June 2011
Customs & Revenue staff strike against attendance management policy
Reports from Bradford, Leeds and Coventry. Plus Cardiff - added on 13.6.11. On Tuesday 7 June, PCS members in HMRC across the UK walked out for an hour
Manningham Mills
27 April 2011
Manningham Mills 1890-1891: A strike that changed Britain's unions
On 27 April 1891, 120 years ago, the great Manningham Mills strike of Bradford textile workers ended after nearly 19 weeks...
24 March 2011
University and college picket lines
In the build-up to the UCU's national day of strike action on Thursday 24 March, there was a rolling programme of strikes in different regions. Here are reports from Tuesday's strikes in Manchester, Bradford, Leeds and London
3 March 2011
Fighting the cuts: Thousands protest, lobby and occupy
Reports from around the UK: Thousands of people demonstrated against cuts last week, as shown in these reports in this week's issue of the Socialist from Hull, Camden, Lambeth, Haringey, Lewisham, Birmingham, Swansea and Bradford
20 December 2010
Students in Bradford call an all-Yorkshire assembly
At their final meeting of the term, Bradford Student Solidarity (BSS, the anti-cuts campaign at Bradford university) agreed to host an all-Yorkshire Student Assembly on Sunday 6 February...
Chanting against the far right EDL in Bradford, photo Paul Mattsson
1 September 2010
Fighting the far right in Bradford
ON SATURDAY 28 August, the racist and hooligan English Defence League (EDL) could only muster 700 supporters to their Bradford demonstration for what was meant to be their 'Big One'...
18 August 2010
Bradford must organise against the EDL
The racist English Defence League (EDL) plans to march through Bradford on Saturday 28 August. In a deeply provocative move the EDL has specifically targeted Bradford because of its large Asian and Muslim...
9 June 2010
Bradford murders and prostitution
Comment: THE MURDER of three women in Bradford once again draws attention to the plight of women who take up prostitution, writes Jane James.
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...
13 July 2001
Racism: Oppose The Bosses' Divide And Rule
JUST TWO decades after the 1981 riots, clashes such as those in Bradford last weekend show the deepening anger and bitterness amongst Britain's Asian population about hostile policing, racist attacks and poor social conditions...
13 July 2001
Racist Match That Sparked Growing Anger
LABOUR HAS been quick to provide its knee-jerk solution to the recent inner-city riots; bring out the water cannon...
13 July 2001
Police tactics spark Bradford riots - Eye-witness reports: ALMOST 20 years to the day after Britain's cities simultaneously erupted against the policies of Thatcher's Tory government, there has been a series of explosions revealing the simmering anger against Blair's Britain...
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