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27 June 2013
Hackney & Islington TUSC: film presentation
The film "Don't mention the 47" is being presented as part of a series of discussions about standing candidates in the 2014 council elections who will refuse to implement cuts, writes Thursday 27 June 2013.
Strike at Horizon and Downsview special needs schools, 26.3.13, photo .
27 March 2013
Teaching Assistants strike for agreed pay level
Fifty teaching assistants at two special needs schools went on strike for Scale 5 pay
24 July 2012
Austerity Games highlights plight of young people
As the world's eyes focus on the Olympics, young people from across the country arrived on Hackney Marshes, east London, to compete in the alternative Austerity Games.
27 June 2012
Protest for affordable housing - join the Austerity Games
Claire Laker-Mansfield, Youth Fight for Jobs, said: "Cameron's latest comments on housing benefit for under 25s represent a cruel and vicious attack on young people...
13 June 2012
'Austerity Games' to highlight young people's plight
Young people and trade unionists from across the country will be sending teams to Hackney Marshes to compete in the 'Austerity Games' in the week before the Olympics
Hackney-Tottenham demo, 13 August 2011, photo Paul Mattsson
16 August 2011
North London Unity demo - 'Workers and youth, unite and fight'
At the north London Unity demonstration on 13 August, YFJ and Socialist Party members called for jobs, EMA, and an end to Stop and Search
Firefighters in Tottenham, August 2011, photo Paul Mattsson, photo Paul Mattsson
16 August 2011
Con-Dems to blame for anger of youth - mass, trade union-led workers' response needed
The four days of riots that followed the shooting dead of Mark Duggan by the police in Tottenham sent a massive shock wave across the country
6 July 2011
Day-Mer festival support for 30 June pensions strike
The 22nd Day-Mer Festival, organised by the Turkish and Kurdish community organisation Day-Mer, took place in Hackney, north London, on 3 July, writes Suzanne Beishon.
6 April 2011
Youth workers and young people from Hackney, east London, protested outside the council's Children and Young People's Scrutiny Committee to demand an end to the savage cuts that will decimate the services used by young people in the borough, writes Suzanne Beishon, London Youth Fight for Jobs.
16 March 2011
As council budgets are being revealed around the country, youth services are facing some of the biggest cuts. Haringey's youth services face a 75% cut, whilst in Hackney jobs will be cut by 50%, writes Suzanne Beishon.
23 February 2011
Council workers face pay freeze
Local government employers are imposing another year's pay freeze on local authority workers. They are also saying they can't afford to give the paltry £250 one-off payment for public sector workers...
Lewisham protest against cuts, photo by Chris Flood
23 February 2011
Opposing all cuts: Thousands march across England and Wales
What we think: Cuts-making councillors must be challenged:
Barclays Bank made £11.6 billion in profits in 2009 and paid just 1% of that in UK corporation tax...
Demonstration reports from Bristol, Hackney, Hillingdon, Shrewsbury, Waltham Forest, Lewisham and Rhondda Cynon Taff
Unions protest at Hackney town hall, photo The Socialist
4 February 2011
Hackney Unison condemns union witch-hunt and calls on Labour councils to set 'needs budgets'
A rapturous cheer rang round the crowded meeting hall of over 250 trade unionists at the Hackney Unison AGM on Wednesday 2 February, as the secretary announced the ET victory of the four Socialist Party members wrongfully barred from holding office in Unison
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