“The workers... battle-cry must be: 'The Permanent Revolution.'” — Marx and Engels, 1850
Mon 26, July 2010 @ 22:18
The issue is already coming up as to how to build genuine anti-cuts campaigns and what their orientation should be. Lambeth has made a good start. It was set up by the local unions, involves the Right to Work Campaign (RTW), and has set out to draw in the local community groups, many of which will be on the frontline of closures when their funding is cut by the local council...writes Stuart King....
Thu 22, July 2010 @ 22:59
A hundred people lobbied against cuts in Children and Young People's Services in Lambeth on 19 July. Next lobby: 6.30pm, Monday 26 July, Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton (bottom of Acre Lane, a few minutes from Brixton tube)
Click here to download the first broadsheet produced by the new Lambeth 'Save Our Services' anti-cuts campaign, supported by Lambeth UNISON, GMB, NUT and Pensioners' Action Group among others.
Mon 11, January 2010 @ 23:33
Children around Britain have been
cheering on the snowy weather this week in the hope that their
school would be closed.
However in South East London there was one school, which was keen to open. The young students at Lewisham Bridge Primary School were gathered round the school gate at 8.45 this morning eagerly waiting to be let back in to their beloved school.
Hands Off Lewisham Bridge led a campaign, which involved parents and the local community, to bring our kids back to the now grade II listed building. This was a hard fought battle with Lewisham council who were determined to go ahead with the decant of the school despite the overwhelming hostility to the plan from parents and the many obstacles which stood in the way of their building plans, including a grade II listing awarded by English Heritage. And we won! Lewisham Council have re-opened our school and our kids are back
Thu 17, December 2009 @ 11:25
On 23 April, in opposition to our children being decanted from Lewisham Bridge Primary School, three parents occupied the roof of the school. The decant meant the school day would start an hour earlier, children would be bussed a mile and a half and there would be no parental contact with class teachers.
Tue 13, October 2009 @ 10:14
This autumn at the three main pro-business party conferences, Labour, Tory and Liberal Democrat leaders competed with each other on how they were going to cut public spending. "Savage" or "focused" was the only choice. The purpose was to tell the electorate – in Margaret Thatcher’s favourite phrase – “there is no alternative”, says Stuart King
Fri 31, July 2009 @ 17:04
On Thursday 30th July Ben Bradshaw´s (secretary of State at the Department of Culture Media and Sport) secretary called Hands Off Lewisham Bridge with “a very important message”; that the English Heritage Grade II listing awarded to Lewisham Bridge Primary School remains in place.
Thu 16, July 2009 @ 23:14
Around 60 parents attended a meeting on Monday 13th July that had been called by the local authority to canvass opinion on whether we want to remain at the Mornington Centre or return to Elmira Street in September. Chris Threlfall led the meeting and explained that Lewisham have not heard from English Heritage about their appeal against the Grade II listing of the Edwardian building at Lewisham Bridge.
Tue 07, July 2009 @ 21:41
On 26th June parents re-occupied their primary school in protest over its imminent closure by Glasgow Council.
They brought their first occupation during the Easter holidays to an end, as they did not want to disrupt their kids’ education. The council ignored them and other primary school parents and took the outrageous decision to close 22 primary schools in Glasgow.
It is now the summer holidays and when I spoke to Nikki yesterday she said parents were determined to stick it out until the end of the summer holidays.
Parents see off council vans
Fri 03, July 2009 @ 00:11
The Government's new white paper Your Child, Your Schools, Our Future is Labour's most explict statement yet for what they have in store for state education - it's complete breakup. What they outline is an explict business model of education, where children are commodities whose value in the market can be improved through 'efficiency' and 'productivity' and where 'time and motion' studies of the classroom (read factory floor) will be used to monitor 'outcomes' (read our kids). Big brother is watching you. But trading people in the market isn't straight forward. How do you coerce people? Fear. Alongside the wholesale sell off of our schools is a host of draconian measures aimed at putting us in our place argues Kirstie Paton...
Thu 02, July 2009 @ 11:37
Yesterday (1st July) lecturers at Manchester College took strike action against threats of compulsory redundancy. One of the lecturers threatened with redundancy is the UCU branch secretary David Swanson.
Tue 30, June 2009 @ 22:19
Those who have been fighting the privatisation of our schools through the Academy programme are well aware that Trusts are academies by another name. On Monday 29 June, over 60 people including teachers, lecturers, admin staff, teaching assistants, parents and activists from the local community agreed to launch a campaign to defeat Labour's plans to privatise our schools.
Fri 26, June 2009 @ 14:40
Hands Off Lewisham Bridge called on all our supporters to help us resist the threatened eviction on 25th June. The bailiffs were due to arrive at 10.30 am.
By 9.00 am there were about 20 of us in the occupation and about 20 in the park below us. The sun was shining and our spirits were high – it was going to be a good day...writes Eleanor Davies...
Fri 19, June 2009 @ 19:14
Our families continue to be disrupted by the decant to the Mornington Centre, our children tell us that they are not happy. Why?
• Classrooms are too hot
• They are not allowed to run in the playground
• Toilet facilities are inadequate
• They are tired of getting up so early
Fri 19, June 2009 @ 17:41
On 23
April parents took the dramatic action of occupying the roof of
Lewisham Bridge Primary School to protest against the council’s
decision to replace the school with an all through 3-16yr school
run by the private company Leathersellers....writes Eleanor
Davies....
Sun 26, April 2009 @ 11:46
Today Sunday 26th April is the fourth day of our
occupation of the roof at Lewisham Bridge Primary School.....it
follows a hectic week of activity, which included a visit from
Visteon strikers - pictured on the roof of the school...Parents and
school supporters are protesting against the council’s decision to
replace our local primary school with a 3-16 school that will be
run by the private company Leathersellers....
Sat 14, June 2008 @ 13:02
Tue 27, May 2008 @ 22:08
The Education Debate
Stephen Ball
Policy Press / 2008 / £12.99
Sun 16, March 2008 @ 18:23
Lobby the Council!
Westminster City Hall
Monday 17 March, 5.30-7pm
Council Meeting at 7pm
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Fri 02, March 2007 @ 00:06
This is the introduction to our extended article available for download here
The NHS - where has the money gone? With cuts and closures throughout the NHS, that’s the big question everyone’s asking. In 2000 Tony Blair committed his government to match the average spending on health across the European Union....writes Clare H...
Mon 29, January 2007 @ 18:59
Sat 13, January 2007 @ 11:40
“There is a real question about what is the destiny of Britain in a world where globalisation means you can buy almost any service anywhere. My passion is that Britain will become the great globalisation success story of this century." This was Gordon Brown, the most likely successor to Blair as leader of the Labour Party, speaking to the conference of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in late 2006....writes Mark H.
Fri 08, December 2006 @ 18:14
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