Author: momentumint

Safe and Equal is an organisation of keyworkers and trade unionists that has been campaigning for full sick pay for all since the beginning of the pandemic. Now we want to coordinate campaigning for full sick and isolation pay.

A BBC survey has found nine out of ten major local authorities in England with not enough cash to cover their spending plans in the financial year 2021-2. Coronavirus could lead to them going £1.7bn over budget. To keep services going, say council leaders, billions cut from central government funding to councils over the last ten years must be restored.

On 16 February, Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions general secretary Lee Cheuk-yan went into court for his trial for alleged “unauthorised assembly” on 18 August 2019.

The protests at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul have continued: at the beginning of this year, President Erdoğan appointed a puppet rector against the wishes of students and university workers.

Around the world, young people are standing up and calling for greater solidarity with the ethnic minorities facing genocide in East Turkestan, occupied by the Chinese state as “Xinjiang”.

Meeting with John McDonnell MP, Tahmena Joyan, and others. 6pm on Zoom

Julie Ward condemns the military coup. (From North East Bylines)

Andi Brookes calls for governments to ensure that scientists and companies freely release all intellectual property associated with Covid-19 vaccines to maximise production

FBU general secretary Matt Wrack announced the call at an online meeting on 7 February

According to the Financial Times of 9 February, at least 12 further local authorities are on the brink of meltdowns like Croydon’s as budget-making for 2021-22 approaches.