MONDAY 21 MAY Join Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty in visits to companies using forced unpaid labour under the government’s workfare schemes. Meet 12 noon Hunter Square. More info on resistance to workfare at www.edinburghagainstpoverty.org.uk (If you’re reading this Sunday, maybe still time to meet us down Portobello way)
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Vidal Sassoon & 2 uses for a pair of scissors
I was about to write a tribute to anti-fascist hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, who died today, but I see that LibCom beat me to it. Sassoon, dubbed the “anti-fascist warrior hairdresser” by the Telegraph joined the East End-based 43 Group as a 17-year-old trainee hairdresser. The 43 Group was formed by Jewish ex-servicemen in the...
MAY DAY: A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF PROTEST
Produced by the Graphic History Collective and Published by Between the Lines Books. May Day: A Graphic History of Protest traces the development of International Workers’ Day, May 1st, against the ever-changing economic and political backdrop in Canada. Recognizing the importance of work and the historical struggles of workers to improve their lives,...
Police Against Cuts: London & Athens
Lots of liberal hand-wringing over this week’s march by off-duty police in London as part of the PCS pensions strike. “If they’re against cuts, then why won’t the left support them?” asks this typical flamebait piece (guardian, obv.). Let’s put dogma aside. Let’s also put aside the 1000s of unsolved, “mysterious” deaths in police...
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