Plotting and scheming for Welfare not Workfare

On 12 November, it became legal to force unemployed people to work for their benefits – to do 40-hour-weeks for under a third of the minimum wage. The Government’s Welfare Reform Act introduced ‘Work for your Benefit’ pilot schemes, which once completed can be rolled out without any further debate. It also attacked single parents [...]

How will the Welfare ‘Abolition’ Bill affect us?

1.30pm-5.30pm, Sun 22nd November
Navarino Mansions Community Hall, Dalston Lane (near Hackney Downs), E8 1LB
Free to attend – tea, coffee and snacks free too!
Wheelchair accessible. Childcare available – see below.

Single parent?
Unemployed?
Sick or disabled?
In temporary or insecure work?
Working for Jobcentre Plus?

If so, the Welfare Reform Bill will target you.
The government want to make us pay for their [...]

‘Talk to us, not about us’

Abahlali baseMjondolo the shack dwellers movement from South Africa visit Hackney.
BENEFIT Fri 4 Sept 7.30pm-2am@ the Belgrade Social Centre, 2a Belgrade Rd, London N16 8DJ (google map)

In Solidarity With Enfield & Basildon Factory Occupations

Support Visteon Factory Occupation in London, Enfield
Short Report, 2nd of April 2009

After car parts manufacturer Visteon announced job cuts workers occupied plants in Belfast, Basildon and Enfield. In Enfield about 70 workers -
men and women from all kinds of backgrounds – are still inside the plant and on the roof. Last Tuesday the management [...]

Demonstrate with sacked cleaners Thursday 5 March 13:00 hrs

Willis cleaners are still sacked! They continue to fight and need your support! Please join them in the City, 51 Lime St EC3M 7DQ near Liverpool St Thursday 5 March 13:00 hours.

Please come and show support for sacked cleaners who were organising in Willis for better conditions. They are fighting for reinstatement without the support [...]