We are facing the worst cost of living crisis in generations. Inflation is at a 40 year high, and the government’s own forecaster predicts an average fall of 7% in household income over the next two years. Many will lose much more than 7%. But there has been incredible resistance to the employers’ offensive. In the last few months hundreds […]
With economist & writer Michael Roberts. Here in Britain and around the world the economic crisis is deepening - was Marx right about capitalism after all? Join Michael Roberts for debate and discussion - Michael worked in the City of London as an economist for over 40 years. He has closely observed the machinations of global capitalism from within the […]
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT) encourages remembrance in a world scarred by genocide. We promote and support Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) – the international day on 27 January to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi persecution of other groups and in genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. 27 January marks the anniversary of […]
Overview An online event presented by the TUC and Michael Rubenstein Conferences Ltd. The Discrimination Law Conference gives trade unions, law centres, Citizens Advice Bureau and other voluntary organisations the chance to hear from leading barristers about the latest legislative developments and landmark equality cases. The event will be held online, tickets for trade unions and NGOs to be charged […]
Overview: Course duration: 3 days of learning (1 day per week spread over 3 weeks). This course will take place online on 3 consecutive Mondays - the 30th of January, 6th and 13th February 2023 - learners will need to attend each session. Course delivery: Online group sessions, facilitated by a trade union education tutor via Microsoft Teams. Who should attend? This course is aimed at both new and […]
Claiming our past – Celebrating our present – Creating our future LGBT+ History Month is for everyone; whether you work in education, a museum, library or art gallery, a business, a service, are a member of a network/social group or an individual. It is celebrated every February across the UK, and was founded in 2004 by Schools OUT co-chairs, Paul […]
Online rally with: Mark Serwotka, PCS General Secretary // Richard Burgon MP // Helen O'Connor, GMB Southern Region & Peoples Assembly // Liz Cabeza, Acorn (Haringey) // Nabeela Mowlana, Young Labour // Holly Turner, NHS Workers Say No & more. Now is the time to build the growing fightback, co-ordinate the resistance & popularise policies that put people before profit. Hosted […]
Members can now request to be register to attend the 2023 National Higher Education Conference. The Online Conferencing System (OCS) is now open to allow branches to register delegates and submit motions in line with the rule-book requirements.
After a year of economic turbulence, and a decade of pay stagnation, workers are once again being told that pay rises are unaffordable. This conference will examine the economic debates behind workers’ current demands, and set out an agenda for how to develop an economy for workers not wealth. What do the current state of the public finances mean for […]
One Man Magic Lantern show of the classic book THE RAGGED TROUSERED PHILANTHROPISTS by Robert Tressell Actor Neil Gore brings this humorous and absorbing book to life in his one person magic lantern show. Based on the 1914 novel by Robert Tressell, it's story is set in the building trades of Edwardian England where painters and decorators struggle to maintain […]
