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Sparks national day of action: police run ragged all over London

In the continued battle over a 35% pay cut and the tearing up of the national agreement, rank and file sparks battle through police lines to hold pickets at 5 building sites, visit the occupation at St. Pauls, occupy Cannon St. station themselves and almost join the student demo before being stopped by huge numbers of police…or were they?? Email jointsitescommittee@gmail.com to keep up with the most important industrial dispute for years.

Issue 28, April 2011

  1. TUC demo March 26 (Reel News) 10:46 The second largest demonstration in British history as the anti-cuts campaign begins in earnest.
  2. Tower Hamlets joint strike action (Reel News) 11:30 Teachers and council workers coordinate strike action against the cuts.
  3. EMERGENCY! The battle to save the NHS (Reel News) 26:07 The government is trying to privatise the NHS, but the resistance is growing. Everything you need to know about Lansley’s bill, NHS cuts and how to fight back.
  4. Royal Cleaners fight for a living wage (Reel News) 11:18 While millions are spent on the Royal wedding, the cleaners in Buckingham Palace have to make do with poverty pay.
  5. London Met fighting for education (Reel News) 15:57 70% of courses and hundreds of jobs are being cut as London Metropolitan University becomes a testing ground for the Tories’ education policies.
  6. The Hardest Hit march (Reel News) 4:00 The biggest march of disabled people in history against cuts in welfare.
  7. Rubbish Action (Issy Harvey) 1:30 There’s not enough workers to pick up the litter in Haringey parks, so campaigners dump it on the civic centre steps.
  8. Guilty and Proud of it! Poplar’s rebel councillors (Janine Booth / Reel News) 16:16 From 1919 -1925, Labour councillors in Poplar went to jail for defending their working class communities – and won. A key episode of our history.
  9. Alabama 3 – Bad to the Bone (Reel News) 3:28 Recorded live in Manchester on last year’s Revolver Soul tour.

Issue 26, January 2011

  • Tory Scum Here We Come – short version (13:36)
  • Tory Scum Here We Come – long version (66:03)
  • Ireland: Trade Union March (5:46)
  • Ireland: Police Attack Student Demo (5:11)
  • London Firefighter Strike (14:17)

Issue 25, October 2010

  • Detroit: Rising from the Ashes (32:30)
  • Detroit: Art Explosion (17:48)
  • Movement for Justice in El Barrio (16:50)
  • Gulf, trailer (1:38)
  • Save our Schools (13:31)
  • RMT/TSSA Strike (10:00)
  • John Sinclair and friends: Live in Detroit (9:21)

Issue 13, April 2008

  • Iraq: Speaking out against the war
  • Save our Schools!
  • The Stoned Master: Performance Poetry
  • No third runway!
  • Coastguards strike
  • On the Verge: The anti-war film the Police want to ban

Issue 12, January 2008

  • Stop them privatising our schools
  • Communities against guns and knives
  • After Sangatte
  • From Jerusalem to Haringey
  • Holloway Prison: Another death
  • Volviendo
  • Policing the pollution
  • Tara: Skulduggery

Issue 5, March 2007

  • Oaxaca 1: Teachers’ history
  • Oaxaca 2: Uprising!
  • Coca Cola in Kerala
  • ESOL students speak out
  • Voluntary sector under threat
  • Save Whipps X Hospital
  • Fluffy Smiff
  • Genova Libera (2001)

Issue 3, December 2006

  • Conference for fighting unions
  • Justice for cleaners: Victory!
  • Venezula today, the world tomorrow (extract)
  • Save Adult Education
  • Palestine: Bethlehem
  • Fluffy Smiff: A Christmas poem
  • Bolivia: Justice for Goni now!