Durham Miners’ Gala

The Wesley Euston Hotel & Conference Venue, 81-103 Euston Street, London, NW1 2EZ

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Resistance against academisation has never gone away, but recent months have seen a sharp increase across the country in the number of strikes and campaigns against academisation and a renewed mood to bring all schools that have converted back under local democratic control.

With the idea of a National Education Service under a future Labour government, the issue of academisation must take centre stage.

We face an entrenched ‘education ruling class’ who have power and control over vast swathes of the education system. It will take a huge social movement of staff, parents and students to shift them.

This event, with speakers and workshops, will focus on why we must resist academisation and how we do that. There will be speakers from campaigns against academisation and from leading figures in education and the opportunity, through workshops, to share ideas and strategies.

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JUSTICE4GRENFELL AND FBU CALL ON PEOPLE FROM AROUND BRITAIN WHO DEMAND JUSTICE FOR GRENFELL TO JOIN US.

One year on and after 72 people have died and 70 injured in the Grenfell Tower fire, the government leaves behind a trail of broken promises: 

• 50% of survivors and displaced families are still in emergency accomodation
• There has yet to be a diverse decision making panel appointed to the Public Inquiry
• No arrests yet, despite RBKC and Kensington and Chelsea Tenants Management Organisation being charged with corporate manslaughter
• A Public Inquiry that a year on has only just begun, so we are no closer to the truth
• 300 tower blocks across the country covered in dangerous cladding used on Grenfell Tower. Building & safety regulations still not fit for purpose
• A local council who should be put into special measures because of its callous and ineffective management of the impact of the fire

THERE ARE COMMEMORATIVE EVENTS IN THE COMMUNITY WHICH WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO JOIN IN.

• 16 June at 12:00–16:00pm, 10 Downing Street, SW1V 2 London, United Kingdom

A new deal for working people - TUC march and rally

On 12 May 2018, thousands of people will march through London to demand a new deal for working people. Come and join us.

https://www.tuc.org.uk/new-deal-working-people-tuc-march-and-rally

• Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party could well win the next General Election - whenever it comes.
• Are Labour's policies “mainstream European social democratic” or more "radical" or "extreme" than that?
• And will a Corbyn government in practice be able to achieve what it wants given the implacable opposition of rich and powerful interest groups:- the press barons, the City and others? What is Labour doing to prepare for these challenges?
• We are delighted to host a discussion with three people with great insight into the Corbyn project.
• Jon Lansman, Chair of Momentum and member of NEC
• Alex Nunns, author of The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s improbable path to power
• Maya Goodfellow, writer and researcher. Contributor to The Corbyn Effect
• There will be plenty of time for questions and contributions from the audience.
• St Lukes West Kilburn, Fernhead Road, London W9 3EH
• To register, please click here

On 30 March 2018, Land day, peaceful Palestinian protestors were fired at with live bullets by Israeli snipers that killed 17 people and injured over 1500.

Join us this coming Saturday to call for an end to the siege of Gaza and ask UK government to condemn Israel's actions.

#GreatMarchOfReturn

When: Saturday 7 April, from 1pm - 3pm.
Where: Opposite Downing Street, SW1A 2AA.
Nearest Station: Westminster.

Organised by Friends of Al-Aqsa, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Palestinian Forum in Britain.

Supported by Stop the War and EuroPal.

19:30 to 21:00 (GMT) Marchmont Street Community Centre, 62 Marchmont St WC1N 1AB London

Book launch and discussion with Peter Purton, author of Champions of Equality and Jane Connor, Lesbian and Gay Support the Miners.

Peter Purton was the TUC’s first LGBT officer. His book, of interest to everyone interested in equality and trade union history, reveals how LGBTtrade union members organised to win recognition, then support, and how trade unions supported the struggles of LGBT communities in Britain and across the world.

This is an inspiring tale, and in the dangerous world of the twenty-first century, it is a warning call to the LGBT community and those supporting it, to wake up to new threats, to remember how past victories were achieved. The labour movement has much potential as an active participant in the unfinished fight for equality, but this book shows the need for mutual engagement to make change possible.

Champions of Equality: Trade unions and LGBT rights in Britain, by Peter Purton, Lawrence & Wishart, London.

For information about Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, go to http://lgsm.org

Meeting hosted by Socialist Resistance

Join the Stop Trump Coalition on March 17

Demonstrations are already being planned by the broad-based Stop Trump Coalition, which involves more than 40 campaigning organisations, a dozen MPs, the TUC, 13 individual trade unions, academics, journalists and others.

Public Meeting and AGM on Saturday 10th March, Unite The Union 128 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8TN at 1 pm.

Ceremonial roar 4 matriarchy scheduled for 5.30 pm on SOAS front steps, Thornhaugh St, London WC1H 0XG. All welcome

TIME’S UP ON PATRIARCHY

Modern science is showing this was the world which made us human. Our Palaeolithic heritage enabled us to invent music, language, art, religion – pretty much everything that matters.

Patriarchy is not natural and hasn't always been there. It arose recently in the life of our species, with the increase of inequalities in the Old World about 5,000 years ago.

Patriarchy is a cancer on the body of humankind and the surface of the earth. Since humans created it, humans can decide to get rid of it.

Donald Trump is threatening to visit London later this year. Let’s give him the welcome he deserves!

Come on March 8th and then join us in making sure that

MATRIARCHY TRUMPS PATRIARCHY

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/roar-4-matriarchy-on-international-womens-day-tickets-43284266406

If you can’t roar from central London, ROAR from wherever you are. Let’s synchronise our roars!

Register for tickets at: bit.ly/LAAA2017

Sat, 28th October

Student Central (formerly ULU), Malet St, London, WC1E 7HY

With: Diane Abbott MP, Shadow Home Secretary // Richard Burgon MP, Shadow Justice Secretary // Jon Trickett MP, Shadow Lord President of the Council and Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office // Chris Williamson MP, Shadow Minister for Fire & Emergency Services // Cat Smith MP, Shadow Minister for Voting Engagement & Youth Affairs // Lucy Anderson MEP // Karen Lee MP // Kelvin Hopkins MP // Steve Turner, Unite Assistant General Secretary & People’s Assembly Against Austerity // Roger McKenzie, UNISON Assistant General Secretary // Mick Whelan, General Secretary ASLEF // Rehana Azam, National Secretary for public services, GMB // Mike Hedges, Unite London & Eastern Region Political Committee // Tosh McDonald, ASLEF President // John Hendy QC, Campaign for Trade Union Freedom // Maya Goodfellow, Guardian & Independent writer // Danielle Tiplady, nurse & NHS campagner // Lara McNeil, Vice-chair Labour Students // Huda Elmi, Momentum NCG // Sian Errington, Labour Assembly Against Austerity // Seema Chandwani, CLP representative, Labour CAC // Murad Qureshi, Stop the War Coalition & former London Assembly member // Sabby Dhalu, Stand Up to Racism // Shabbir Lakha, Stand up to Trump // Lewis Bassett // Amy Dunne, Jeremy Corbyn 4 PM // Nathan Akehurt, writer // Matt Willgress, Labour Assembly Against Austerity // Maryam Eslamdoust, Camden councillor // Emine Ibrahim, Greater London Labour Party board member // Peray Ahmet, National Policy Forum member // Christine Shawcroft, Labour Party NEC & Momentum NCG // Claudia Webbe, Islington Councillor & Labour NEC

Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Russian October Revolution.

Public meeting and book launch

1917 - The Russian Revolution, Reactions and Impact
 

The Socialist History Society will be holding a seminar to mark the launch of
its Occasional Publication no. 41

Saturday 21St October
Marx Memorial Library, Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R,
2.00pm - 6.00pm. Free to attend, all welcome.

Speakers will include Tobias Abse, Willie Thompson, David Morgan, Greta Sykes, Francis King and John Partington

The Russian Revolution of 1917 changed the world forever. For once, it
appeared that the oppressed workers were within grasp of the levers of state
power and for a while the prospect of permanently ending exploitation seemed
a real possibility. The revolutionary mood swept across continents and its
impact was felt far beyond the parties of the left and the organised labour
movement. The revolution inspired writers, poets, intellectuals and
philosophers as much as it did workers and activists. With this special
Occasional Publication the Socialist History Society commemorates these
momentous events of one hundred years ago with a series of specially written
articles that examine the reactions to the revolution and its impact in
different areas.

Further information here:

 [1] http://www.socialisthistorysociety.co.uk/