Newcastle

Projectile debating

Rob Ray — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:36:41 +0000

For those of you who aren’t up on what the Newcastle-based Projectile anarchist film festival does, it really provides the main northern answer to the London Anarchist Bookfair as the place for libertarians to get together (though Manchester, Bradford and Glasgow all have their own regular bookfairs, none are on quite the same scale).

Royal Mail wildcats spread to north of England

catch — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 23:17:35 +0000

Liverpool:
Managers drove mail into the building, which resulted in a wildcat at the Liverpool Mail Centre when workers refused to unload the lorry. The wildcat was supported by Polish agency workers who refused to cross the picket line, and instead went to the pub.

Newcastle:

Jack Common - selected articles

Ret Marut — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:13:45 +0000

A fascinating writer, his analysis of the emerging mass consumerism of the 1930s & 40s seems to closely anticipate the concept of the 'society of the spectacle' later developed by the situationists.

From the endangered phoenix.com website; http://www.endangeredphoenix.com/

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A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Projectile anarchist film festival 2006

Steven. — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:18:43 +0000

Archived web feature about the Projectile Film Festival in Newcastle, Friday 16th June - Sunday 18th June, 2006.

NHS workers strike in Newcastle

Steven. — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:40:01 +0000

The industrial action is the result of new Agenda for Change rules which allow new staff to earn more than staff with many years of experience.

This has seen staff with more than 20 years of experience being paid 20p an hour less than colleagues who are new to the job.