February 15, 2009
The recent wildcat strikes, which began at the Lindsey oil refinery, were based on legitimate demands. Just a small amount of research would reveal this. However, rather than addressing real issues, politicians and the media have chosen to systematically accuse the strikers of being racist. Deconstructing the myth and re-establishing a few truths This will […]
Category: Uncategorised
Tags: workplace organising
February 1, 2009
The Haringey Independent Cinema February films will be on Thursday 26th February 2009. Doors open7pm, films start 7.15pm. Cost £3 (waged) or £2 (low and unwaged): Private Lives Directed by Abbe Robinson Made in 2006 (16 minutes) Leaving behind the monotony of her textile mill job on a Friday afternoon in the early 50’s, Ruth […]
Category: future events
December 30, 2008
It’s Christmas time in Haringey, and that usually means you can’t move for UCKGers shaking a bucket at you. It’s not enough that they tap their own members for cash (10% tithes, before tax, and even if you’re claiming benefits), but in December they see fit to empty the pockets of cash-strapped passers by as […]
Category: Uncategorised
Tags: religion
December 8, 2008
At the Lordship Rec Festival in September was the recently formed Tottenham Food Co-op, which is organized and run by members of the Sustainable Haringey food group and the Back To Earth charity, with support from Broadwater Farm Community Centre. This not-for-profit food market aims not only to provide fresh locally grown organic produce, fair […]
Category: Uncategorised
Tags: environment
December 8, 2008
Everyone is entitled to comprehensive and decent public services of all kinds. But public services are in a constant financial crisis. Told to make ‘efficiency savings’, the result is cuts and closures, land sell offs, attacks on staffing levels, wages and conditions, and moves towards privatisation and ‘contracting out’. Private companies and property speculators circle […]
Category: Uncategorised
Tags: local services
December 8, 2008
In June and July this year over 700 cleaners on London Underground organised by the RMT union went on strike for a living wage and other demands, in one of the first actions by mainly illegal migrant workers that this country has ever seen. Previously kept in silence and poverty pay by brutal employers, ISS, […]
Category: Uncategorised
Tags: workplace organising
November 26, 2008
The campaign to stop privatisation at the Laurels health centre stepped up a gear today (Wed 26 Nov). At the board meeting of Haringey’s Teaching and Primary Care Trust, local residents demanded that they reverse the decision to privatise one of the GP practices at the Laurels. About 20 campaigners gathered inside the grounds of […]
Category: Uncategorised
Tags: local services
November 18, 2008
Before looking at why there’s a financial crisis in most of the industrialised world, let’s get one thing straight – the rich are not in any financial crisis. Ok, a billionaire may lose the odd house or two, or some millionaire may top themselves, but they will always have more money that we will ever […]
Category: Uncategorised
Tags: debt / welfare benefits
November 18, 2008
For the first time in Haringey’s history, the British National Party (BNP) stood a candidate in a by-election (see related article). Gaining confidence from the seat won earlier this year on the Greater London Assembly, and aided by the increasing inability of traditional parties to tackle social issues locally, the BNP are now trying to […]
Category: Uncategorised
Tags: race and immigration
November 18, 2008
Being stopped by the police can be pretty intimidating, so to counter that we’ve compiled this brief guide to your rights. Before you are searched, the police must inform you of the following: a) their name and the police station they work at b) the purpose of the proposed search c) the grounds for […]
Category: Uncategorised
Tags: state control
