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is a political organisation aiming to build workplace and community democracy through direct action and struggling with all those fighting for change.
We stand for the power of workers and local people against the bosses and politicians in order to bring about radical social change, to build a society based on freedom, democracy and cooperation.
Last week I was honoured to be invited to speak in Rome at the Independence Days conference held at a number of venues in the Italian Capital. I was invited not on the basis that I am an expert but that they wanted to hear from activists working on the similar issues and in the same ways, to share tactics. Just as important was the need to tell each other face to face what the situation in our home countries was like – and I was literally speechless at what I discovered, both in terms of their movement and in terms of what they face.
Featuring some L&S activists.
Ambition and maturity, this was the tone of the 2nd L&S National Conference, held last weekend in Reading.
An L&S member interviews a school teacher about the government's "City Academies" scheme.
Glasgow council recently announced it's planned closure of numerous schools across the city. This article reflects on two previous campaigns against school closures, and attempts to draw out the lessons that can be reapplied in stopping these planned closures.
