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We are a group of local people who want to get rid of the current system which places profit and power before people’s real needs. To do this, we believe we all need to get organised, fight back and take over the decision-making in communities and workplaces. We support and participate in local campaigns, spread ideas and help create effective opposition to the powers that be.

 
Haringey Fuel Poverty Warm-up Action (Sun 29 Jan) Print E-mail
Wednesday, 25 January 2012 20:17

Meet at 12 noon outside Boots, Wood Green High Road (next to Shopping City), N22

Come and join us - don't sit in the cold alone!

We will be calling on all shops, pubs and public buildings to welcome those who wish to get warm.

Please bring flasks of tea, nibbles, folding chairs, board games, placards etc...

* No more deaths from hypothermia * Reduce fuel bills now - no to cut-offs * Insulate all homes effectively * Reclaim public space * Expose energy companies' profit scandal  * Yes to renewable energy - phase out fossil fuel energy production to prevent climate catastrophe

Fuel Poverty ActionFuel poverty should be seen as a public scandal, not as a private problem. One in four families in the UK is shivering, out of sight, behind closed doors. There were a shocking 25,700 additional UK deaths last winter compared with other seasons. Yet the 'Big Six' energy corporations are making massive profits. The government and energy companies may want to keep it this way, but we say this can't go on.

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Standing room only at anti-academies meeting Print E-mail
Tuesday, 10 January 2012 00:14

No one we spoke to could remember a bigger meeting in Haringey. You'd probably have to go back to the '80s, when hatred of the Iron Lady and her Tory henchmen united huge numbers of people across the borough.

But here we were, fresh into 2012, with well over 600 people packing out the hall at Downhills to find out about, and overwhelmingly to voice our opposition to, Michael Gove's proposal to force academy status on our community school.

Gove had branded those behind the campaign as idealogues. But tonight we heard from teachers and parents, of this and other local schools. One after the other they talked of the fallacy of the government's suggestion that forcing a structure change on a school can improve the outcome for the children.

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November 30 - biggest strike day EVER Print E-mail
Thursday, 24 November 2011 00:31

All Out N30There's still a week to go, but it's looking like next Wednesday will see about three million public sector workers walking out on strike, as civil servants join teachers in opposing government cuts to pensions.

PCS, UCU, NUT and ATL had all previously balloted for further industrial action, so their members will be out.  But added to them are a seemingly ever-growing list of other trade unions, including Unison, GMB, Unite, UCATT and NASUWT. (To see a more comprehensive list with breakdowns of ballot results, see Who's out on Nov 30 on libcom.org.)

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Support the Sparks, Wed 19 Oct 7am, Blackfriars Print E-mail
Monday, 17 October 2011 23:22

Balfour Beatty are currently the lead company withdrawing from the electrical contracting Joint Industry Board (JIB) national agreement. They have issued 1,690 termination notices to their electricians and, from December 7th, intend to re-employ them on £10 an hour, rather than the current £16.25 (that's a 35% pay cut). Anyone who refuses to accept the new pay rates will be sacked.

This dispute has been running for eight weeks now with hundreds of workers involved in unofficial walkouts, site occupations and protests with a virtual media blackout. Perhaps they don't like showing footage of workers actually fighting back.

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Launch of Tottenham Defence Campaign Print E-mail
Friday, 30 September 2011 22:56
The Tottenham-based families of Mark Duggan, Roger Sylvester, Cynthia Jarrett and Joy Gardner - whose loved ones all died following detention by police officers - will speak at a press conference for the launch of the Tottenham Defence Campaign on Wednesday 5th October. This is two months since the shooting of Mark Duggan and the 26th anniversary of the death of Cynthia Jarrett.

The four families, speaking alongside local community activist Stafford Scott, will discuss the struggle for truth and justice they have faced.
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Shut Guantanamo - 10 Years of Shame Print E-mail
Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:16

Guantanamo 10 yearsAs friends gather in Washington D.C. to demand the closure of Guantanamo, we take to the streets in Haringey

This morning, 11 January, on the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo, folks from Veterans for Peace, No Borders, Haringey Solidarity Group and Giuseppe Conlon Catholic Worker House gathered in Turnpike Lane, Haringey to demand the immediate closure of Guantanamo and other US gulags.

Our gathering included three former prisoners and a British veteran of the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan.  We made a specific call for the release of Londoner Shaker Aamer.

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Downhills School campaign against forced academy status Print E-mail
Wednesday, 14 December 2011 01:10

by Janet Lallysmith, parent

Parents, teachers and governors at Downhills Primary School, Tottenham have launched a campaign to prevent the Department for Education (DfE) forcing the school to become a sponsored academy by September 2012. Although no Haringey primary schools were identified in Michael Gove’s original list of 200 ‘underperforming’ schools, this hasn’t stopped the DFE targeting schools in the most deprived parts of Haringey.

Downhills’ governors, teachers and parents found out about DFE plans through a leak in the local press a few weeks ago. We mobilised rapidly and organised meetings for interested parties – the first one was attended by over 120 people and addressed by Alasdair Smith from the Anti-Academies Alliance. It quickly became apparent that most people had no idea of the Secretary of State’s agenda for privatisation in our schools or the implications for their children.  Most people signed up to be involved in the campaign.

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Occupy Local Communities Print E-mail
Tuesday, 15 November 2011 23:24

by Kwadwo Kari-Kari

“All day, all week, we sleep on London’s freezing streets.” - Occupy LSX placard

Let me start with a confession: I have not spent a single night sleeping at any of the occupations. If that appalls you I can only apologise, but I was one of two protesters that successfully “occupied” Paternoster Square (ok hung around in Starbucks) from midday to 2pm on 15th October. I do see myself as part of the Occupy Movement, and admire those who camp in the City of London. I think that the majority of sympathisers and supporters aren’t attracted to sleeping on freezing streets of London as a method of enabling social change. So I want to suggest not that we do something different, but instead diversify our tactics to engage more of the “99%” we claim to represent.

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Andrew Lansley ambushed at North Mid Print E-mail
Thursday, 13 October 2011 23:38

Andrew Lansley MP accused of being 'a liar' as demonstrators demand an end to hospital cuts and a halt to the controversial Lansley 'NHS privatisation' Bill currently going through Parliament

On Monday 11th October a dozen members of the Save Chase Farm Hospital campaign and the Defend Haringey's Health Services coalition ambushed Government Minister for the NHS, Andrew Lansley MP, at the North Middx Hospital on the Enfield/Haringey border. As Mr Lansley got out of his chauffeur-driven car and strode past them they proudly wielded placards saying 'OUR HOSPITALS - SAY NO TO CUTS', and handed out over 300 'Defend the NHS' leaflets to staff and patients. The highly popular leaflets condemned cuts at Chase Farm and called for the scrapping of the 'Lansley Bill' promoting privatisation of the NHS.

A number of staff spontaneously joined the protest, saying that they supported opposition to cuts and privatisation and complaining that staff had not been informed about the Minister's secret visit. The protests were highly embarrassing to the Government and featured on BBC news bulletins with Mr Lansley being accused of breaking promises made before the general election to halt the previous Government's threatened closures.

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