Politics

ONLINE PETITIONS in support of Jeremy Corbyn are gathering support in the face of Starmer’s refusal to accept the verdict of the Labour Party and accept Corbyn back as a Labour MP. Corbyn was initially suspended from the Labour Party ...

THERE’S A WEEK of virtual debate taking place from Monday, 16th November to mark the ongoing battle to persuade world leaders to tackle climate change – with the urgency it deserves. The UN Climate Change Conference, COP26, due to be ...

Tom Zagoria, Labour Homelessness Campaign FROM TOMORROW, the homelessness crisis is set to escalate further as the ban on landlords evicting tenants ends today, 20th September. Across England, thousands of homeless people have already been sent back to the streets ...

IT’S TIME TO TALK! After months of insisting that it was the end of the road for negotiating over new contracts for Council staff, Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs has agreed to meet Unison to talk about the ongoing ...

JOURNALISM is not a crime! Nonetheless, Julian Assange will attend an extradition hearing at the Old Bailey on Monday, 7th September – and the Stop the War Coalition is among the groups supporting a protest which will gather from 9am ...

PRESSURE IS mounting on Labour Councillors as Tower Hamlets Unison branch conducted its third set of three days of strike action in protest at management imposing new contracts on the Council workforce. As strike action began, ten Labour Councillors signed ...

ONE OF THE changes which the Tower Rewards contracts have brought into Tower Hamlets Council staff terms and conditions is a massive reduction in the contractual redundancy pay to which staff were previously entitled. Unions and service users alike are ...

OVER HALF A year ago, the late John Lennon sparked controversy by telling the press that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus” – a remark that erupted, on their arrival in the USA some five months later, into the ...

THROUGHOUT the month of July, our “thought for the day” spot featured individual Tower Hamlets Councillors – recording something they have said and giving their apparent position on the Tower Rewards dispute with the Council workforce. Now the month is ...

THE 75TH anniversary of Hiroshima Day took place this week – on 6th August. Up to a quarter of a million people died as a result of two nuclear bombs which the US dropped on Japan in the Second World ...