National TUC demonstration – A Future That Works

Sparks – Dinner at the Grosvenor

From Socialist Worker

[…] As part of the campaign, up to 300 construction workers took their fight to the building bosses last night. They targeted the Electrical Contractors Association’s annual black tie dinner, held at the Grovesnor hotel on London’s posh Park Lane.

The people who profit from the construction industry came face to face with those who make them rich. And the bosses didn’t like it one bit.

Workers blocked Park Lane and held up rush hour traffic across central London for almost an hour.

N30 – Day of Action

The battle lines are being drawn for the biggest confrontation yet between workers and the Tory-led government. More than three million are set to strike on 30 November over the Tories’ plans to raid their pensions.

Unite the Resistance National Convention

Unite the Resistance – National Convention
Saturday 19 November, 11am – 5pm
The Royal Horticultural Halls
London

From uniteresist.org:

From Cairo to Wall Street and Athens to Barcelona resistance is growing. And on 30 November that resistance comes to Britain.

On that day three million trade unionists in Britain are set to strike to save their pensions, oppose the government’s austerity plans and save jobs. It is a struggle everyone should support.

Anti-cuts campaigners, students, pensioners and the unemployed will join them. It will be the most important battle for a generation.

A group of trade union activists have got together to launch a convention on Saturday 19 November. It will give everyone a chance to debate key questions such as how we build the most effective action on 30 November; uniting our communities against the Tory government’s cuts, and the international struggle against austerity.

We’re coming to get you, Cameron

Cover of Socialist Worker (2277, 12 November 2011).

The Hardest Hit – Demonstration

The Hardest Hit
Saturday 22 October
Rally 12.30 – 13.30
Old Market Square

Update (27/10/11): pictures from the demo (thanks to Notts TUC).

Occupy Nottingham in pictures

Various pictures of the Occupy Nottingham camp on Market Sq.

Occupy Nottingham

Starting from around 3pm today, Nottingham’s Market Square has been occupied by a gathering of people aiming “to show that we will no longer tolerate the corporate greed and Government corruption that threatens our way of life and everything we work for”.

The occupation is a part of, and in solidarity with, the hundreds of other occupations taking place in 82 countries on 15th October. The occupiers have been enjoying coming together in the sunshine, tents have been set up and a megaphone is being passed around to communicate their frustrations with the system.

Updates:

• 15/10/11: More reports on the global day of action
• 18/10/11: Lenin’s Tomb on Occupy London
• 19/10/11: Pictures of the Occupy Nottingham camp added.

Electrical construction workers’ protest at Ratcliffe power station

Mechanical and electrical construction workers, who are facing up to 30 per cent pay cuts because rogue employers are trying to de-skill their industry, staged a demonstration at Ratcliffe power station in Nottingham on Friday 7 October.

TUC March for the Alternative (26/03/2011)

TUC March for the Alternative – Images by Guy Smallman