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UK: SNP-led Glasgow City Council uses gender politics and threats of blacklisting to isolate equal pay struggle By Stephen Alexander
The major parties, together with the trade unions and the capitalist media, have presented the dispute solely in terms of “institutionalized” gender discrimination and “sexism at work” to divide men and women workers and obscure the fundamental class issues at stake. Continue reading
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Book/Event: All Knees and Elbows of Susceptibility and Refusal: Reading History From Below
The book All Knees and Elbows of Susceptibility and Refusal: Reading History From Below began as a discussion between two friends, Anthony Iles and Tom Roberts, about the politics of writing history. Neither are trained historians. They have assembled a critical and necessarily partial picture of the practice of ‘history from below’: historiographical tendencies which… Continue reading
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November 30 Strike: student planning meeting tonight, plus demo details
As you’re probably aware, on Wednesday 30 November millions of public sector workers will be taking strike action across the country. A full list of unions taking action on the day is available here, but what’s clear is that N30 it set to see a major stepping up of resistance to austerity in the UK. Continue reading
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Glasgow against education cuts
The demonstration at 12:00 (noon) today at Glasgow University is still going ahead. Please come down for some company, training and so on. Join this, or your nearest demonstration, if there is no large event going on at your own institution. THIS IS IN JUST OVER AN HOUR, GET YOUR WELLIES ON. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 