Category Archives: News
Sparks one up
Balfour Beatty Engineering Services (BBES) the giant construction company at the heart of the battle to impose new rules and conditions on mechanical and electrical site workers has pulled out of the proposed new contracts saying it no longer sought to force workers to sign the BESNA agreement.
Organising against workfare
Liverpool Solfed is putting its energy behind supporting benefit claimants and the unemployed in the area against the imposition of the new workfare policy instituted by the coalition government. Workfare is a means where benefits claimants must work a set amount of hours for companies in order to receive their benefits; in return these government [...]
Recent News articles round up
A list of recent news articles from Freedom newspaper featured on the website: The Sun Goes Down on Murdoch » 5 senior tabloid journalists arrested for illegal payments to police for information Total policing: Rave On » New riot shield being developed with sound to incapacitate protesters
The Sun goes down on Murdoch
Five senior Sun newspaper employees were arrested this morning over the scandal of payments to police for information. As part of the ongoing police investigation Operation Elveden, which began after the News of the World phone-hacking scandal saw the Murdoch Sunday paper close, a number of high profile journalists were arrested in a series of [...]
Total policing: Rave on
A new technology is being developed that will allow police the opportunity to disperse crowds with an electronic sound system fitted to riot shields. A US company is in the process of testing the new patented device that emits a low-frequency sound which resonates with the respiratory tract, making it hard to breathe.
Grassroots community action round-up
Schools, health and nuclear waste dumping – communities fight back! Parents in Sheffield have joined together and formed a protest group to campaign against their local secondary school becoming an academy. The group KES PLEAS (King Ecgbert School Parents for Local Education Authority Status) is angry at the school Governors going behind parents’ backs in [...]
Cracking the whip – case against the ‘Atos Two’
Two Nottingham residents, a wheelchair user and a retired paediatric nurse, dubbed the ‘Atos Two’, have been charged with aggravated trespass following a protest at the local offices of Atos ‘Healthcare’. They will stand trial at Nottingham Magistrates Court on February 27th and 28th.
The Return of Rank and Filism
Can the electricians’ dispute reinvigorate grassroots militancy Just before Christmas over 50 mechanical and electrical workers occupied the headquarters of BBC Scotland in Glasgow. It was part of an ongoing campaign of co-ordinated protests by electricians and other skilled workers, over the decision by the big eight construction companies to withdraw from the 40 year [...]
Sparks week of protest: Wed 25th Jan
NGBailey sites: NGB/No Go Besna Ballot papers gone out for BBES a yes vote is imperative for strike action to be able to begin on 9th February. This week coming is ‘NGB’ week where Rank and File sparks are hitting ‘NGB’ sites countrywide. It’s time to up our game. This is an important week of [...]
Gang Warfare
Welcome to a new era of political policing When Oxbridge graduate Bernard Hogan-Howe began his new job as Metropolitan police commissioner in September he brought with him the quaint PR phrase ‘total policing’ (that he himself coined when chief of Merseyside police) as a way of introducing himself into the new role as top cop.
