23 May 2018

How 'Prevent' training fosters racist paranoia

Recently work required me to complete online 'Prevent' training, supposed to help those who work with young people spot signs of "radicalisation."

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23 May 2018

Student leaders claim one million on the streets against Brexit - fight for a workers' exit

One hundred and twenty student union officers - who have so far failed to lift a finger in the fight against tuition fees and cuts, or to support striking lecturers during the recent University and College Union dispute - have made national headlines with the claim that "over one million students demand a people's vote on the Brexit deal".

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23 May 2018

May 1968: 'Communist' leaders hand power back to defeated bosses

France, May 1968: week four: By Friday 24 May 1968, ten million workers were on strike. The greatest general strike in history. On the same day, the president of France, General Charles de Gaulle, tried to address the nation. Nobody saw it. It was a victim of the TV workers' strike.

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23 May 2018

Victory: how school strike beat 'academy' privatisers

School workers in Newham, east London, stopped Avenue Primary School becoming a privately run 'academy' earlier this month

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23 May 2018

Stop Trump! Build for 13 July student walkouts

When Trump visits Britain we need to launch a unprecedented day of struggle

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Campaigning in Southampton for school and college walkouts when Trump visits Britain on 13th July

21 May 2018

Campaigning in Southampton for school and college walkouts when Trump visits Britain on 13th July

Campaigning in Southampton for school and college walkouts when Trump visits Britain on 13th July

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16 May 2018

Spain: Student general strike against sexist, capitalist 'justice' system

The general student strike on 10 May, called against the shameful light sentencing of the 'wolfpack' rapists, was a great success. More than one million students emptied classrooms and more than 100,000 attended over 60 demonstrations

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16 May 2018

May 1968: Revolutionary explosion as two thirds of workforce join strike

France, May 1968: week three: On Saturday 18 May 1968, General Charles de Gaulle, president of France, was forced to cut short his state visit to Bucharest.

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9 May 2018

Protest against Trump and May on 13 July

The reactionary US president plans to visit Britain

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9 May 2018

Defend Hull FE College - defend our city!

On 12 May striking lecturers and students from Hull College will be demonstrating together with the wider labour and trade union movement in Hull against the proposed axing of up to 400 jobs across the college.

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9 May 2018

France '68: History's greatest general strike erupts

France, May 1968: week two: The legacy of the French revolution of 1848, the second time France overthrew a monarchy, played an important part in the escalation of the demonstrations and street fighting in Paris.

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2 May 2018

Spain: 'We don't want to be brave, we want to be free!'

Protests rocked Spain on 26 April and for a further two days following the sentencing of 'La Manada' - five men accused of raping an 18-year-old woman during the Pamplona bull-running festival in 2016.

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2 May 2018

May 1968: Police attacks on students spark mass revolt

France '68 - week one: A wooden beam will appear quite solid and unchanged as termites chew away within it. But there comes a time when one step can bring down the whole rotten house. In May of 1968 the whole structure of capitalism in France was in jeopardy.

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2 May 2018

Hull college workers and students protest redundancy plan

Over 100 Hull College workers and students protested on 23 April against the planned axing of up to 400 jobs at the college. Walking out over their lunch break they heard speakers from the local trade union movement.

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27 April 2018

Stop Trump! Build for mass walkouts and protests on 13 July!

By preparing now for unprecedented resistance, we can stop Trump coming to Britain

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23 April 2018

College protest against job losses

Over 100 Hull College staff and students protested against the planned axing of up to 400 jobs

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11 April 2018

Moving look at school students' many perspectives on sexism

Fiction: The Nowhere Girls: 'The Nowhere Girls' is written from the perspective of a variety of young women school students at Prescott High School in the US, although it mainly chronicles the three founding members of the Nowhere Girls, Rosina, Erin and Grace

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11 April 2018

FCC Wilmington refuse workers' strike in hull stands firm

International solidarity from Spanish school students: The refuse workers at FCC Wilmington waste processing in Hull continue to stand firm in their demand for equal sick pay

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11 April 2018

NEU conference: Teachers vote to strike over pay and workload

The National Education Union (NEU) conference (NUT section - the last ever before fully merged conference next year) took place in Brighton against the backdrop of a perfect storm building in our schools

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4 April 2018

Bristol and Bath students join detained asylum seekers' protest

Detainees waved back after protesters chanted, drummed and kicked on the metal fences - the mood became more solemn as they spoke and led chanting from within via loudspeaker

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