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Campaigns against the 'Big Six' energy companies and for the nationalisation of energy companies have taken off recently as the issue of fuel poverty becomes more dire. Essential if the long term...
View ArticleLucas: Government cares more about corporate gambling industry than its victims
Ahead of today’s parliamentary debate on fixed odds betting terminals, Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion, said:The rapid spread of fixed odds terminals has created serious gambling...
View ArticleCopland teachers denied chance to see pupils through to their exams
We have got used to teachers' professional views being ignored or thought of as no consequence, as in the case of the recent Radio4 panel discussion about history teaching with Michael Gove and...
View ArticleCopland teachers striking for democracy on Tuesday
Teaching staff at Copland Community School, Wembley, will be mounting pickets lines from 7.30am on Tuesday morning as they strike once again to try and win a democratic ballot, independently run, on...
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Brent Council: Never mind the cuts we're spending more on PR
Unconfirmed rumours reach me that Cheryl Curling, head of communications has been summarily escorted from Brent Civic Centre. Two days ago PR Weekly LINK carried the story that she had been made...
View ArticleCrucial Executive vote on Monday on Princess Fred expansion plans
On January 4th LINK I wrote about the officer's report going to Monday's Brent Executive recommending the expansion of Princess Frederica Primary School in Kensal Rise, despite 90% opposition from...
View ArticleIPNA wounded but the danger remains
The House of Lords has defeated the Coalition's move to replace ASBOs with Injunctions To Prevent Nuisance and Annoyance (IPNAs) amidst much ridicule of the proposal's shortcomings and its potential...
View ArticleThe Green Party's Education Policy offers a real alternative
Tristram Hunt's proposals on licensing teachers ignited a furious Twitter firestorm last night with teachers declaring that this was the last straw: there was no one on their side and no party they...
View ArticleTeachers turn on Labour after Tristram Hunt announces licensing scheme
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Local campaigners join in Cambodian garment workers protest
Yesterday, workers’ rights, anti-poverty, student groups and members of Brent Fightback joined together to condemn the Cambodian government’s violent repression of garment workers’ strikes that led to...
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Loos, libraries, Humpty Dumpty and the fight against austerity
http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/As local people fight against cuts here in Brent there is often much to be learnt from other parts of the country. In this Guest Blog (first published in 'Speakers Corner;...
View ArticleCopland teachers stage unprecedented 5th strike against forced academisation
Copland Community School teaching unions remain solid in their determination to stop the ARK academy chain taking over their school in Wembley. They will be taking an unprecedented fifth day of strike...
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Greens back independent grassroots candidate for Willesden Green
Several members of Brent Green Party attended the Make Willesden Green campaign's policy discussion on Saturday as observers. The participants were local activists and residents, mostly non-party but...
View ArticleParent power overthrows school expansion plans
I had a clash of meetings tonight so was unable to attend the Brent Executive. However Cllr James Denselow has tweeted that they rejected the officers' recommendation to expand Princess Frederica...
View ArticleMuhammed Butt 'not prepared to ride roughshod over parents' concerns'
Some might dismiss it as a pre-election gambit but there was a vote, with Executive members taking different sides, at last night's Brent Executive.The vote was on the officer's report on the proposed...
View ArticlePreston Manor covenant costs approach half a million
Brent Council has incurred legal costs payable to Druces LLP of almost £170,000 including VAT and disbursements in the legal case over restrictive covenants at Preston Manor School an FoI request by...
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Brighton Greens throw down gauntlet to Pickles and Labour on Council Tax...
Brighton Greens have decided to call the Coalition's bluff and hold a referendum on raising council tax to protect adult social care in the city. The controversial move will also put Labour on the spot...
View ArticleEDL threaten demo in Cricklewood on Saturday
The Mapesbury Safer Neighbourhood Team have circulated the following information:* EDL Demo Cricklewood Broadway on SaturdayUpdate from Mapesbury SNTThe media has published details on the 14/01/2014...
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Protest at Council Tax Scheme that hits the poor: Monday Brent Civic Centre
The protest outside Willesden Magistrates Court when non-payers were summonsed by the CouncilBrent Housing Action will be holding a protest at Brent Civic Centre before the Brent Council meeting on...
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