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Calls for Home Secretary to Ban the EDL from Bradford

The Telegraph & Argus, trade unions, Bradford University, political parties, faith leaders, the Chamber of Commerce, dozens of community groups and Bradford Council have all spoken out against the proposed English Defence League demonstration calling for it to be banned.

Local authorities face devastating cuts and rationalisation

Stephen Alexander | 24-07-2010 19:48 | Other Press | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

A report by the New Local Government Network (NLGN) has warned that local authorities could lose at least a third of central government funding over the life of the current parliament. It warns that the £1.165 billion cuts to local authority grants already announced by Chancellor George Osborne will be small “compared with the tsunami of funding cuts that will hit councils.”

Freemovement - Say No to Removals/Deportations

Important Information for Refugees granted leave to remain for 5 years in 2005

From 30 August 2010, those granted refugee leave or humanitarian protection in 2005 for 5 years will start to come to the end of their 5 years leave.

They will need as a matter of urgency to renew their application for indefinite leave to remain.

Someone who does not do so before his/her 5 years leave expires may suffer several problems - including losing any entitlement to work or receive benefits, or that any application for indefinite leave to remain is dealt with more restrictively, could also lead to their status being revoked and removal from the UK.

The UK Border Agency has published information about making applications for indefinite leave to remain for these people. See:
Refugees and those with humanitarian protection - route to settlement

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/asylum/outcomes/successfulapplications/leavetoremain/

Plus
For information on how to apply for indefinite leave to remain before your leave expires, you should go to:
Completing application form SET (Protection Route)

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/settlement/applicationtypes/completing_set_protection_route/

Attack on civil service redundancy pay anticipates massive job losses throughout public sector

Chris Marsden | 09-07-2010 11:21 | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

The Conservative-Liberal Democrat government is to implement legislation slashing the redundancy pay of civil servants by as much as 85 percent. The aim is to pave the way for the 600,000 public sector job losses required by its savage cuts package to government departments of between 25 and 40 percent in the next four years.

Spending cuts in Britain worst since World War II

After detailed examination of the UK coalition budget measures, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the country faces the “longest, deepest, sustained period of cuts to public services spending at least since World War II”. It is the first time that a British government has proposed six consecutive years of spending cuts.

DAN Defend Welfare action in Manchester, 16th June 2010

Danner | 17-06-2010 23:20 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

Yesterday (Wednesday 16th June), DAN (Disabled People's Direct Action Network), along with members of Manchester Anarchist Federation and Manchester Unemployed Workers Union, took action in Manchester city centre as part of the National Day of Action against the Flexible New Deal called by the No to Welfare Abolition coalition (see

http://www.defendwelfare.org).

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Chesterfield Mayday 2010

Disillusioned kid | 03-05-2010 15:44 | Mayday 2010 | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

Chesterfield Mayday is traditionally one of the largest celebrations of International Workers’ Day in the region if not the country. Although substantially smaller than at its peak, the event continues every May bank holiday weekend.

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Arthur Scargill addresses Dublin Mayday rally

On a miserable wet day around 400 workers marched through Dublin in the annual Mayday march organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions. Speakers at the end included Arthur Scargill, president of the British National Union of Mine Workers during the bitter year long 1984 strike in which 10 people were killed.

Corporate Watch: The Unemployment Business

Corporate Watch | 23-04-2010 16:34 | Other Press | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

The latest issue of the Corporate Watch Newsletter is out. The double issue looks at the 'unemployment business'; its protagonists, ideological, political and economic premises and how it is being utilised by the New Labour government to dismantle what’s left of the welfare state. Examining the old and new benefit and employment regimes, it also provides new details and figures about the winners and losers, or the private contractors and their victims. The full text of the articles can be read online or downloaded at

http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=3572 .

What fascism is and how to fight it - a dayschool, Sheffield, 24 April

Two years of capitalist economic crisis have seen a sharp growth of the BNP and the rise of groups like the English Defence League. Existing anti-fascist campaigns have been totally ineffective at stopping these developments. Why?

This dayschool, organised by Workers' Liberty, is an attempt to locate a socialist understanding of the BNP and EDL in the classical Marxist tradition of analysing fascism, and use that tradition to get to grips with the issues confronting anti-fascists so urgently today.

Audio: Communist Discussion Group - Alienation

Attached is a recording from the Communist Discussion Group meeting held in Sheffield on 15th April 2010, the subject was alienation.

Communist Discussion Group: Alienation - 14th April

The next Communist Discussion Group meeting will be held at 6:30pm, Wednesday 14th April in The Rutland Arms (Sheffield). The topic of the discussion is “Alienation”. Below is a reading list to give you a general introduction to the topic, but by all means also look elsewhere for further information to enrich the discussion.

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WWOBB: Open Meeting About Bus Services

We Want Our Buses Back | 17-03-2010 14:50 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

Join us for an
OPEN MEETING ABOUT BUS SERVICES
to discuss: What can we do to press for change?

Wednesday 17th March 2010
7pm to 9pm
The Quaker Meeting House
St. James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW (near cathedral)

Refreshments provided.

An anarchist book fair for Sheffield

Announcing Sheffield's first anarchist book fair.

Coal Mining Heritage and Issues March 12-14th 2010, Newcastle

Coal mining has never been more important around the world than it is today, and it looks set to expand further on a global scale. In this context energy debates, coal mining communities and associated issues and so on, need further examination.

Class War Greece updates 7th & 8th of March 2010

clashes in Volos and Xanthi, NationalBank Occupations in Komotini, Occupations in Athens (note: as long as the "measures" law isn't published it's not legal, therefore the workers of the NationalPrintFactory occupied their workplace, the other one is occupied by the sacked workers of olymic airs)
AND SO ON, strikes continue, bigger one on 8th and General Strike on 11th

Fargate Speaker #12 out now

In This Issue: More rises in bus fares, discontent in the fire service, continuing look at Sheffield’s radical history, film review and more ...

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the rise of the far right and anti-fascism: february 16th, sheffield

Anarchist Federation (Sheffield)/the Commune | 01-02-2010 12:52 | Education | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

Next meeting of Sheffield's communist discussion group.

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Syndicalism Resurgent: the IWW responds to capitalism’s latest crisis

Adam IWW | 30-01-2010 18:29 | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

The following article is reproduced from The Commune newspaper with the permission of the author.

Protocol Temp Agency Implements Overt System of Age Discrimination

Anon | 24-01-2010 17:31 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

Protocol is a temp Agency used up and down the county by public sector employers to provide temp staff- primarily to avoid staff accruing pension rights- it is therefore especially insidious that they are allowed to discriminate on the basis of age.

Sheffield Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

Calls for Home Secretary to Ban the EDL from Bradford

Local authorities face devastating cuts and rationalisation

Freemovement - Say No to Removals/Deportations

Attack on civil service redundancy pay anticipates massive job losses throughout public sector

Spending cuts in Britain worst since World War II

DAN Defend Welfare action in Manchester, 16th June 2010

Chesterfield Mayday 2010

Arthur Scargill addresses Dublin Mayday rally

Corporate Watch: The Unemployment Business

What fascism is and how to fight it - a dayschool, Sheffield, 24 April

Audio: Communist Discussion Group - Alienation

Communist Discussion Group: Alienation - 14th April

WWOBB: Open Meeting About Bus Services

An anarchist book fair for Sheffield

Coal Mining Heritage and Issues March 12-14th 2010, Newcastle

Class War Greece updates 7th & 8th of March 2010

Fargate Speaker #12 out now

the rise of the far right and anti-fascism: february 16th, sheffield

Syndicalism Resurgent: the IWW responds to capitalism’s latest crisis

Protocol Temp Agency Implements Overt System of Age Discrimination

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