Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Fund
Rodney Bickerstaffe – Patron of the campaign to raise a statue to Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette, internationalist, socialist, anti-racist It began on a bright sunny July...
Category: Causes
Keeping the memory and spirit of the International Brigades alive
Rodney Bickerstaffe was a great champion of the International Brigades. The men and women who volunteered to fight fascism in Spain from 1936-39 were an...
A Spanish Civil War Scrapbook: Elizabeth Pearl Bickerstaffe
It’s vital that future generations learn the lessons of what happened in Spain Foreword by Rodney Bickerstaffe to ‘A Spanish Civil War Scrapbook: Elizabeth Pearl Bickerstaffe’s...
National Minumum Wage
Introduction The introduction of a National Minimum Wage (NMW) law had, for many years, been central to NUPE’s argument for an effective trade union strategy...
For Gaza’s pain my heart is bleeding – Bickerstaffe
UNISONActive blog 31 July 2014: Some things we should read about #Gaza today…. ‘The world stands disgraced’ – Israeli shelling of school kills at least 15...
Letter in The Guardian re Palestinian children’s rights
Wednesday 25 September 2013: We support the campaign by Action for Palestinian Children to ensure the rights of Palestinian children are upheld in accordance with...
Cable Street 75 years on – No Pasaran!
“History is too often about Kings and Queens, Dukes and Duchesses. But here (Cable Street and the International Brigade) this, this is our history. Take...
Bick backs strikers in Spain
Rodney Bickerstaffe joined pickets on 29 September 2010 in the Spanish General Strike.
Minimum wage should be a living wage
The minimum wage has been named as the most successful government policy of the past 30 years in a survey of British political experts: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11896971?...
Rodney Bickerstaffe on house demolitions in Palestine
War on Want video from 2007: June is the 40th anniversary of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Ruth Tanner took War...