Over 100 people met at the North East London Council of Action Conference on Saturday 1st October 2011 and voted unanimously to occupy Chase Farm Hospital if planned closure goes ahead. Will TSG vans be commandered and turned into something useful, like ambulances??

Reports started to come in around 7pm about trouble in Enfield, North London, continuing on from last nights disturbances in Tottenham. A police car and shop windows have been smashed up, and several shops ( Tesco, a chemist and a jewellery shop) being looted. Police in riot gear are in the area and talk of a large crowd hanging around.

Around midnight, after the end of Bixton Splash, clashes wit…

Workers at the car part manufacturers who won a momentous battle for redundancy payment from Ford motor giants last year are still locked in a bitter dispute with their ex-employers over money owed through the pension fund after the collapse of Visteon UK.

The latest issue of Freedom newspaper has an indepth interview with one of the Enfield workers active in the recent Visteon dispute who won a major victory recently against car giants Ford over redundancy payments when the enire UK forceforce was made redundant.

Sacked workers occupying Visteon's Enfield plant vacated the premises following announcement of a "deal" discussed with the Unite union.

Visteon workers occupying the factory at Enfield left the building together at midday today. There were around 200 supporters to greet them with rousing cheers, applause and chants as the occupiers descended the spiral steps at midday (the time the eviction notice became active).

Despite the difficult decision to leave the factory, which was fraught with legal implications, the workers are determ…

4th April Update: At least 150 people turn out on march, occupiers say they are overwhelmed by support.

21:45: Visteon occupation now on Twitter: "Visteon occupation of enfield. Going from strengh 2 strengh. Had demo outside plant 2day. Very popular. Public super generous. Thanks 2 all."

Workers at the Visteon factory on Morston Road in Enfield are occupying their factory after being sacked with…

As heads of state met in London this week to argue about how much money they should give to the bankers who caused the current economic depression, workers took direct action, pointing towards a different way out of the crisis.

Sacked auto workers at the Visteon car-parts factory in Enfield continue to occupy their factory despite the arrival of bailiffs at the site early this afternoon.  The wor…

Ford Visteon workers have occupied the Ponders End factory since Wednesday 1st April.  The previous day in a meeting lasting just 6 minutes we were told that the European company, with plants in Belfast, Basildon and Ponders End, Enfield, was going into administration and that we were to leave - without our wages being paid.  Personal possessions could be collected the next day, but at 10 o'clock …

Workers at Visteon factory Enfield London have seized control of the factory following major lay-offs and need help to resist eviction expected very soon.

The Visteon automobile factory (owned by Ford) in has been occupied this morning by workers who were sacked yesterday.