The March For A Future That Works is expected to bring together many thousands of trades unionists, community groups, and concerned individuals. We’ll have seasoned activists, but also plenty who’re totally new to protest. We think it’s important to be prepared, so the day is both as successful and...
In defending benefit cuts, George Osborne said yesterday: Where is the fairness, we ask, for the shift-worker, leaving home in the dark hours of the early morning, who looks up at the closed blinds of their next door neighbour sleeping off a life on benefits? It's a...
As I’ve been following the electronic and paper trails around the South West Pay, Terms and Conditions cartel (SWC), trying to find out some of the truths about their aims and motivation, and their communications with the Department of Health, I’ve encountered a variety of responses from the cartel’s...
I’ve spent much of my weekend ploughing through the information I’ve started to receive from the South-West NHS Pay, Terms and Conditions Consortium (from here on SWC or ‘the cartel’) member Trusts. The majority of the Trusts have claimed exemptions and refused to reply; some have not yet answered,...
Peter Reynolds, of Weymouth, who was elected as leader of CLEAR in February 2011, will stand as a candidate in the forthcoming Corby & East Northamptonshire by-election, expected to take place on 15th November 2012. CLEAR is a single issue political party which seeks an end to the prohibition of...
Dorset Echo article on standards monitoring of local councillors
Dear Dave, It’s rare for me to write to a politician, rarer still for that politician to be the Prime minister. Today, however, has seen a new low in your disgusting government’s ongoing offensive against the nation’s working class. So, rather than content myself by only venting my spleen...
Stir to Action is the international online magazine set up by Jonathan Gordon Farleigh and his partner Abby McFlynn. Jonathan from Dorchester and Abby from Colorado now reside in South London. Stir is a magazine for activists and those with an interest in social change. Whether it is growing...
