LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

SERCO Institute, 22 Hand Court, off High Holborn, WC1V 6JF

Staff and students come together to fight the massive cuts proposed to provision of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) at Tower Hamlets College.

http://www.freesoascleaners.blogspot.com/

Our revised list of demands (unfortunately our computer had a trojan horse which meant we lost the document that we had worked hard on to word water tight so had to re-write it again late last night. We hope the school take it on face value based on the general gist and dont conitune to provaricate over the odd incorrectly worded statement.)



This morning the school responded by saying no to all …

SOAS directors office occupied to demand release of 9 cleaners! Rally called for 4.30pm today‏

DEMONSTRATION Monday 15th June at 8.30am on SOAS Steps. Please bring banners and other visual, audio aids.



We denounce the actions of the school and demand that academic institutions should not be complicit in assisting the Government in implementing their racist immigration programme. We find this particularly disgraceful given SOAS’s attempt to shake the reputation leftover from its colonial pas…

On Friday 12th, SOAS University was raided by immigrantion police, who rounded up several cleaners employed by ISS contractors amidst threats of immediate deportation. The detained persons are held at Old Street and Borough Immigration Centre and are set to be deported on Monday. SOAS staff and students have condemned the raids in a press release.

Updates Monday morning: A demonstration has taken…

At 6.30am on Friday the 12th June, ISS (the company who contracts SOAS’ cleaning staff) called a meeting for all SOAS cleaners. Within minutes the meeting was raided by approximately 40 immigration police, who detained all cleaners and arrested 9 people accused of working without proper documentation. These 9 people are now on fast-track to be deported from the UK.

Without any advance warning from their ISS bosses nor the university management, SOAS cleaning staff were confronted by a hefty team of immigration officers at 6.30am this morning (Friday 12 June). Fearful cleaners were detained on SOAS premises as the officers demanded to see their papers. Some were taken into rooms of the university to be interviewed. A shocked witness said that someone had to i…

This morning at 8, SOAS University was raided by Immigration police who rounded up 9 of our cleaners and are threatening to deport them tonight.



We have fought hard with the cleaners to get them union representation and a decent wage (which we have now got). many of them have been working here for years, and have their whole lives here in london..

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Lecture Theatre 106, First Floor, Roberts Building, UCL, Torrington Place (opposite Waterstones, Malet Street).

Meet 12pm at Cleopatras' needle, Embankment, SW1, for march, followed by a rally at Trafalgar Square from 2pm to 4pm.

The following notes are an attempt to capture the spirit of the discussion of one of the groups at the Anarchist Conference 09.  The format of the conference was novel and worked very well - everyone who joined was taken away from their "normal" affinity group and placed in a discussion group with a selection of other people who weren't in the same organization, so that each group became to some e…

With the economic crisis hitting people hard, there's no need any longer to explain to people that capitalism is a crazy and destructive way to run the economy - people are talking about it all over the country. Against this backdrop, 300 people met for the Anarchist Conference '09 at Queen Mary, University of London during the weekend. People shared their ideas about fighting repossessions and ev…

Upper St, N1, Outside Angel Station

London & Brighton pub, 139 Queens Road, Peckham, London SE15 2ND

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On 12th May 2009, a dozen anti-deportation campaigners from the Stop Deportation network and the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees blockaded the entrance to Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres near Heathrow, to try and prevent the mass deportation of 45 Iraqi Kurdish refugees held at Colnbrook via charter flight. Six activists locked themselves together, using glass and plastic …

Another good piece of work by the Schnews crew, on the upcoming Noborder camp in Calais.

School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square (nearest tubes Holborn and Russell Square)

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Parliament Square.