Several West Yorkshire IWW members and friends braved the snow today to picket the Cineworld Pizza Hut in Bradford in solidarity with Sheffield Pizza Hut Workers.

Pizza Hut workers at the Crookes store are taking action outside in the snow today to raise awareness of por pay conditions.

Billboards in Manchester were transformed today as anger against the ‘Big Six' energy companies rises. DIY modifications were made in protest about the thousands of people who die each year due to fuel poverty, and the hikes in heating bills. [1]

The RMT asked for the motion below to be discussed at the Northern TUC on 21 January and it was passed unanimously.

In a nutshell: Equity Partnership is a Bradford LGB organisation that works with and supports groups and related issues for the community. It has previously explicitly not included Trans in its descriptions and implicitly in its efforts. There has been a proposal to include Trans people in the constitution. Before the amendment can go through, there will be a re-vote on the proposal on Monday…

Staff at Unilever IT headquarters at Ewloe, Deeside, N. E. Wales joined workers in action across the UK to strike against the company from 7am today 18/01/2012

Last week saw protests against a UK charter flight to Sri Lanka, in which activists struck at the heart of the Government's "unjust deportation machine", and blocked the road outside Colnbrook and Harmondsworth immigration prisons with ‘lock-on' devices and a tripod.

On Monday 19 Dec, a protest was held at the UK Borders Agency Reporting Centre in North Shields, Tyne & Wear, against a UK-sponso…

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URGENT! The flight is now leaving from Gatwick not Heathrow. Also phone calls are best now, as she has been already taken to the airport. To speak directly to Sam Okwulehie, ignore the general admin numbers given on the article and call 0208 2831 831 and ask to speak to his PA called Shiela. She will out you through to him, if you give some excuse.

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I would like to URGENTL…

None of the council or government buildings were closed today, but all were running with drastically reduced staff and most had pickets outside.

In one sweeping stroke the false consciousness of consumption was served a mortal blow in the streets of Bradford today. As the worldwide ripples of Buy Nothing Day crashed upon the shore of BD1, multinational capital trembled in it's bloodstained boots.

The UK's premier freshwater resource - the Lake District is struggling to find enough freshwater to cool the heels of existing nuclear wastes.

The Environment Agency's suggestion to accomodate the government's pronuclear ambition is:

BUILD A DESALINATION PLANT! 

News from Sheffield, West Yorkshire & Doncaster Sabs

Earlier this week NARN and our supporters called upon the Leeds fashion boutique, Dusty & Dylan, to adopt a fur-free policy following fox coats being sold in the shop.

Leaked government document shows how the privatisation of the Narional Health Service for England and Wales is to be completed.

Dave Douglass spoke on the history of the 1984/5 miners strike at The Space Project in Leeds (see event details). Douglass is an ex-miner, working class militant and union organiser. As an NUM branch delegate since 1979, Dave has been involved in many campaigns most notably the 1984 miners strike. Throughout that time he has been a member of Class War and the IWW, as well as having written a numbe…

Leeds PSC Statement on Council’s Selection of Veolia for Incinerator Contract

Leeds Palestine Solidarity Campaign (Leeds PSC) expresses its profound disappointment at the decision of Leeds City Council officers to recommend to Councillors the selection of Veolia as preferred bidder for the city’s incinerator (Residual Waste Project), with the council’s executive board expected to rubber-stamp t…

Occupy Manchester will shortly return, at a new location in the city centre.

  Activists across the UK yesterday took part in the National Day of Action Against

SRCL, a company which collects and incinerates beagle dogs killed at Harlan

Interfauna.

Leeds now has an occupation! City Square, opposite the swanky Queens Hotel, right in the middle of the financial district.

A gathering of radical bike projects happen in Bristol over the weekend 5/6 Nov.  The gathering brought together ~20 people involved in spaces which in some way link politics and bicycles together.  The last gathering was in Manchester.

 "ALL THAT IS NECESSARY FOR EVIL TO TRIUMPH IS FOR GOOD MEN TO DO NOTHING"

- Edmund Burk

On Monday the 10th of October Wharf Chambers, a new workers co-operative based in Leeds, had its entertainment license hearing. The result of the hearing has now been made public. 

The three councillors granted the not-for-profit space a license on the grounds that they closed at 11pm, had two registered door staff and full CCTV throughout the building (full conditions are available by seaching …

The Dale Farm eviction was the first large time that a large group of settled and traveling people worked together to resist an eviction.  At a talk in the Space Project on Wednesday the 2nd in Leeds some of the settled people who went to support give an account of their time at Dale Farm.  There was then a phone interview with Pearl who is one of the Irish Travelers at Dale Farm. 

Compilation of the answers and proposals about the current democratic and financial system provided by the participants to the Leeds Street Assembly for Global Change on the 15th of October.

Ryanair had to cancel a marketing event at the University of Manchester Students Union earlier this week after students dismantled their promotional stall in protest against the company's record on the environment and workers' rights.

Early this afternoon a couple of dozen activists began to set up an occupation in Bradford in front of the town hall.

This morning's BBC NW Politics Show discussed the impact of Pylons from proposed new nuclear build at Sellafield on the countryside .  This is a bit like discussing the impact of new buttons on the toxic emperor's coat. No doubt the great and the good in Cumbria who have been eerily silent on nuclear developments will vigorously campaign for pylons to go underground - this of course assumes that n…

Radio for the great unwashed!

Background

The local community has been protesting against the destruction of an 80+ year old Beech Tree in Irton, North Yorkshire for several years.

Irton is a village which has a strong community spirit. Residents and outsiders have come together to show their opposition to a North Yorkshire Council decision which goes against common sense.

One visitor to the village stated “ I went prepared …

URGENT: Fracking company Cuadrilla Resources will announce the findings from some of its Lancashire test sites tomorrow (Weds 21 September) at 11am at the Imperial Hotel in Blackpool. Local people are organising a demonstration outside the hotel at 11am – get there if you can.