Scotland
Glasgow: Mums occupy Carnwardic school against closure
Determined mothers are undertaking a series of overnight occupations of their working class neighbourhood school in a bid to save it from closure.
Carnwardric Primary School has 239 students – which would normally be a healthy size for a primary school, with an average of 34 students in each of its seven year groups. But with a regulation limit of one teacher to every 33 students, some Carnwardric year groups get two teachers. A larger merged school will have larger class sizes and fewer teachers.
Edinburgh council tenants fighting privatisation speak
Council tenants from Edinburgh speak about their recent victory against the sell-off of council housing, and the fight for more investment they still face.
Tenants, trade unionists and councillors from around the country were set to attend a mass lobby of parliament on Wednesday of this week to protest against the government’s policy of handing council homes to private companies.
The lobby was called by Defend Council Housing (DCH), a national coalition of housing campaigns.
Glasgow mums' school sit-in
In Glasgow on Friday, a sit-in protest was organised by mums at Carnwadric Primary school to protest against its closure.
The 239-pupil school is threatened with a merger with another school onto a new site one-and-a-half miles walk away for students, next to a motorway and mobile phone mast.
The Evening Times recorded the incident:
ANGRY mums staged an all-night sit-in protest at a Glasgow primary school.
Morrison, Walter, 1924-2004
A short biography of community activist Walter Morrison, a Scottish former soldier who rejected war.
Walter Morrison
Born 20 March 1924, died 6 February 6 2004
Resist G8 2005
Archived libcom.org web feature on the demonstrations against the G8 summit in Gleneagles.
