Last night’s meeting (January 16th), organised by supporters of Communities Against The Cuts in Birmingham , may well prove to be a watershed in the anti-cuts struggle in the city, writes Rob Marsden The meeting greatly surpassed its organisers’ expectations [...]
Based primarily in South West Birmingham, Communities Against the Cuts has stabilised itself as a small but very dynamic left of Labour/anti-austerity party and has begun to draw around it a layer of experienced activists and younger people writes Bob Whitehead. At [...]
Socialist Resistance Forums 1. Tuesday 15th November Feeding the World Maria Neri from Mindano Philippines 7.30 pm committee rooms 3 &4 Council House 2. Tuesday 13th December ‘Russia today’ Rick Simon 7.30 pm Bennetts Bar 3. Wednesday 18th January New [...]
Hatcher, R. and Jones, K. (eds) (2011) No Country for the Young: education from New Labour to the Coalition. London: Tufnell Press. £12.95. The Coalition government’s programme for education is a fundamental challenge to the idea of social justice. It [...]
To tie in with our forthcoming forum Nuclear Power: An ecosocialist critique, Birmingham Socialist Resistance have produced this 32 page pamphlet featuring articles from our Japanese comrades and from leading eco-socialists and supporters of the Fourth International in Europe. Click the [...]
Speakers: Fred Leplat, Stop the War Coalition & Spocialist Resistance, Dr Sami Ahmed, Midlands Egyptian Society Tuesday 17th May, 7.30pm “Bennetts” Bennetts Hill, Birmingham City Centre, B2 5RS. The revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt constitute a historic turning point in [...]
Bob Williams-Findlay of Disabled People Against the Cuts will be speaking at a Birmingham Socialist Resistance Forum on Tuesday 15th February, 7.30pm Bennetts Bar, Bennetts Hill, Central Birmingham. October 3rd saw the first mass protest against the austerity cuts outside [...]
Bob Whitehead wrote this for the site of Birmingham Socialist Resistance. How do we stop the cuts? There is no realistic answer outside of huge mobilisations that unite service providers and users. The recent uprising of the students needs to [...]
The Wikileaks organisation should be congratulated for their latest brilliant exposés of establishment politicians. We should have more examples of this with British secret documents. What these documents show is that establishment politicians systematically lie to the general population. The [...]
The threat of redundancy hangs over all 26,000 Birmingham City Council (BCC) workers who have been given Section 188 notices warning of cuts in pay and conditions. That is the whole council workforce, excluding school staff. BCC faces cuts of [...]
The erection of over 200 CCTV and Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) spy cameras in the Sparkbrook and Washwood Heath areas of the city, including 72 covert or hidden cameras, combines state racism, Islamophobia, the surveillance state and the “war [...]
Tuesday, 19th October at 7.30 pm Socialist Resistance Forum: ‘Latin America: the Ecosocialist Alternative’ with Hugo Blanco. Venue: Bennett’s Bar, Bennetts Hill, Birmingham B2 5RS
Saturday, 11th September Green Left/Socialist Resistance (fringe meeting event during the Green Party conference in Birmingham) ‘The Rise of the Green Left: Inside the Worldwide Ecosocialist Movement’ with Hugo Blanco and Derek Wall. Venue: Cascade Suite, Copthorne Hotel, Paradise Place [...]
Birmingham’s ruling Tory / Liberal coalition are threatening to cut 2,000 jobs this year with 1000s more to follow, freeze the pay of 25,000 low paid workers and slash £75 million from the budget- cutting services to the bone to [...]
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