Reading District Labour Party
Stop West Berkshire Council Redundancies
West Berkshire Council are proposing to make staff redundant to help balance their books. Please support the petition being organised by West Berkshire UNISON. http://chng.it/cLzrwq6B
Read MoreIs 20 Plenty?
West Reading Councillors want your views on speed limits. Labour councillors in Battle, Kentwood and Norcot wards are launching an on-line survey seeking residents’ views on whether the residential streets off the Oxford Road between Reading West Station and Norcot Roundabout should become a 20mph zone. Currently the limit is 30mph except for sections of…
Read MoreReading Labour Party Orders “Just Desserts” for Rogue Caterers
LUNCH IS SERVED:: 20g of cheese balanced on top of a raw potato, followed by a tin of tomatoes, garnished with a microscopic segment of carrot. (source: Good Law Project) When a photograph of a small quantity of random, incompatible and not very fresh looking food items appeared on Twitter; Chartwell UK, the FTSE 100…
Read MoreMove learning online: Reading Labour support NEU calls to close primary schools
Reading Labour fully supports the statement made by the National Education Union (NEU) “The National Education Union is calling upon Government to move learning online in all primary schools including primary special schools in England for at least 2 weeks and issuing advice to all members informing them of their legal rights not to have…
Read MoreDJ N:Fostell Presents Reading Black Lives ! 6pm Wednesday October 21, 2020
Join hosts Boubacar Dembele and Charlene Chetty for an evening of music, dance and stories – enjoying music, sharing stories, impacting black lives because they matter.Guests Michaela Jones, Cllr Ayo Sokale, campaigner Glenn Dennis, Syreeta and Syrai, Michael Ogunseye, Sonia Walker and Matt Rodda MP. Caribbean music and Afrobeats.Soca dance lesson by Michaela Jones. Discounts:JB…
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Young Labour Book Review: The Dispossessed, Ursula Le Guin
In the aftermath of the crushing 2019 General Election, I felt I had to get ‘active’ in a political sense. To put my money where my mouth is, so to speak, which led me to join the Labour Party. It came at a time of great uncertainty. I’d recently moved back to my home town…
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Reading event shows that Black Lives Matter
Several hundred people joined forces to attend a Black Lives Matter event in central Reading on Saturday 13 June. It is the second event in the town marking the recent death of George Floyd at the hands of the police in the US state of Minnesota and was part of a series of national protests…
Read MoreSTATEMENT OF SUPPORT AND JUSTICE FOR GEORGE FLOYD
Black and Asian members of the Reading and District Labour Party wish to express their outrage over the callous murder of George Floyd which took place on 25 May 2020. This horrific and abominable event is not isolated. It personifies systemic racism and police violence all over the world including here in the UK, on…
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