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Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
9 February 2012
NUT and PCS launch consultative surveys to build for ongoing pensions action
The NUT and PCS national executives have agreed to proceed with consultative surveys to confirm support - and to mobilise members - for an ongoing campaign of action to defend public sector pensions. If the results show support, they are proposing that 28 March would be the next day of coordinated national strike action, reports Martin Powell-Davies
November 24th student demonstrations against tuition fees rises and the abolition of the EMA, photo Senan
8 February 2012
Students drop out of college without EMA
In late 2010, as thousands of college students took to the streets against the vicious scrapping of weekly EMA payments for 16-19 year old students, the government insultingly labelled the grant as 'frivolous', writes Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Students national organiser.
Student protest 29 Jan
1 February 2012
NUS: name the day for student walkout
This week there has been another set of statistics showing that £50,000 worth of debt is enough to make many people rethink plans to go to university
25 January 2012
Victory against Dorries' abstinence education bill
On Friday 20 January a demonstration against Tory MP Nadine Dorries' Sex Education (required content) Bill 185 was interrupted mid way through when a victory was announced, writes Beth Granter.
18 January 2012
Protect women's rights - oppose the abstinence bill
In May 2011, Tory MP Nadine Dorries made an attack on sex education via a private member's bill. Dorries proposed that girls be given "information and advice" on the benefits of abstinence from sexual activity...
18 January 2012
Save community schools - no to academies
Six hundred parents, teachers, governors and other local residents were at a meeting at Downhills primary school in Haringey, north London, to build the campaign to stop the school from becoming a 'forced academy', writes a Haringey Socialist Party member.
18 January 2012
Bonus restraint? Fat chance!: I have just seen with disgust that Bob Diamond, the boss of Barclays Bank, is in line for a £10 million bonus (on top of his £1.3 million a year salary) for his efforts in the financial world this year, writes Lin Black, Swansea.
The Jarrow March for Jobs 2011 ends with a demonstration in London on 5 November , photo Sujeeth
11 January 2012
Reject slave labour for young unemployed
"Thanks but no thanks": In October, Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) activists, marched over 300 miles from Jarrow to London to hand a petition into Downing Street demanding job creation instead of workfare, bringing back EMA student payments, scrapping tuition fees, saving youth services and building affordable housing...
11 January 2012
Haringey - Save community schools, No to academies
Six hundred parents, teachers, governors and other local residents were at a meeting at Downhills primary school in Haringey, London, to build the campaign to stop the school from becoming a 'forced academy'
9 December 2011
Job cull at the Oasis Academy, Salford
The only thing that Santa is bringing the staff at the Oasis Academy in Salford, is P45s. Thirteen staff are to lose their jobs this Christmas
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