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The grassroots opposition to President Donald Trump is hitting the streets everywhere.
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Alexander Van der Bellen, an independent candidate backed by the Austrian Green Party, fought neck and neck with far-right Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer and scratched out a narrow victory in the historic election.
“It is a complete bonfire of pay and conditions," said David Gilchrist of the Anti-Academies Alliance, who claims the government has "no evidence to back up the claim that academies improve educational standards – in fact the opposite is true."
The government's new contract is "a deliberate process to undermine, fragment and cheapen the entire workforce and enable a transition to a U.S.-style, insurance based system – which is less fair and is not cheaper, far from it."
Defying an unprecedented wave of strikes by the British medical establishment, the government announced last week that junior doctors must accept increased working hours, reduced pay and a removal of safeguards against overworking.
Students at University College London announced this week that they'd be withholding a total of £250,000 in rent payments unless their school reduced rent costs by 40%.
Unionized doctors across the U.K. have committed to strike today, providing emergency care only as they challenge government healthcare in a way unseen since the 1948 introduction of Britain's National Health Service.
Following terror attacks on Paris last month, the spectre of a Draft Investigatory Powers Bill now looms over Britain as lawmakers debate instituting the most invasive cyber-surveillance regime to date.
Britain's media has been flooded with petitions, emotional speeches and general confusion about the government's proposed changes to Freedom of Information requests, which signal a chilling of press freedom.
For the first time in a century, the House of Lords voted down a financial package approved by the House of Commons – as the Green Party's Jenny Jones said, "the proposed changes to tax credits were another example of Tory economic illiteracy."
The election of the outspoken left-wing leader marked a sea change in British politics and encouraged droves to jump into party activism – now there's a new way for them to do it with the launch of the grassroots network Momentum.
The grassroots opposition to President Donald Trump is hitting the streets everywhere.
It is not hyperbole to say that the world’s richest man has now illegally seized control of America’s checkbook and the entire federal workforce.
Over the next four years, we’re about to be inundated with a flood of lies—including from federal agencies themselves.
We have to be smart in how we fight against Trump and the Republican Party this time around. That means picking our battles wisely, and not taking bait that’s dangled in front of our faces.
Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
The grassroots opposition to President Donald Trump is hitting the streets everywhere.
Protests are set to take place in several major cities across the U.S. on Monday, the Presidents Day holiday, according to activists.
It is not hyperbole to say that the world’s richest man has now illegally seized control of America’s checkbook and the entire federal workforce.
Over the next four years, we’re about to be inundated with a flood of lies—including from federal agencies themselves.
We have to be smart in how we fight against Trump and the Republican Party this time around. That means picking our battles wisely, and not taking bait that’s dangled in front of our faces.
This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
Over the next four years, we’re about to be inundated with a flood of lies—including from federal agencies themselves.
We have to be smart in how we fight against Trump and the Republican Party this time around. That means picking our battles wisely, and not taking bait that’s dangled in front of our faces.
The way the urban commons create a space to solve material problems and enable social movements to forge city-wide networks are antidotes to people being attracted towards the far-right.
We have to be smart in how we fight against Trump and the Republican Party this time around. That means picking our battles wisely, and not taking bait that’s dangled in front of our faces.
The way the urban commons create a space to solve material problems and enable social movements to forge city-wide networks are antidotes to people being attracted towards the far-right.