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2 December 2010
The following piece appeared in 'The Issue' column of the Oxford Mail on Tuesday (30 November). As far as we are aware Stuart Craft is the only councillor in Oxford to raise concerns on the issue. [More...]
15 November 2010
Two recent cases of city property being sold off to make way for student flats, at a time when there is a desperate need for affordable accommodation for local working class residents, show where Labour’s priorities lie. [More...]
24 March 2008
CWU union representative Steven Gill and sacked colleague John Doran have won their appeals against dismissal and the two workers, employed at the main sorting centre in Cowley, have got their jobs back. [More...]
6 March 2008
Labour shows true colours by pushing through 4% council tax rise, agreeing to privatise leisure services and rejecting IWCA proposal to redistribute money to working class areas [More...]
21 September
Recent events at the post office centre in Oxford show that Royal Mail, under the guidance of New Labour, is more determined than ever to push through privatisation plans that will severely degrade the postal services that ordinary people rely on. [More...]
11 September
A vital children’s facility on Greater Leys, under threat of closure, gained funding for another year at the September full council meeting, following two IWCA motions. [More...]
11 August 2007
Oxford City Council became the only authority to declare its support for postal workers involved in the present national strike action at an extraordinary meeting of the council on Monday evening initiated by the IWCA. [More...]
25 May 2007
An investigation by the Independent Working Class Association (IWCA) has revealed that Oxford City Council has no budget to check on the services provided by private landlords who supply emergency accommodation to the council. [More...]
25 May 2007
As part of the IWCA’s ongoing campaign to highlight wasteful practices at the town hall, Cllr Claire Kent has queried Oxford City Council’s use of expensive hotels for meetings attended by senior council officers. [More...]
24 May 2007
Security guards working at the Seacourt and Redbridge park and ride sites have called off their five-week strike action after failing to get support from the city council’s Labour group. [More...]
24 May 2007
IWCA opposes move to allocate resources along ethnic and religious lines. [More...]
15 February 2007
A successful IWCA intervention at Oxford City Council’s budget meeting on Monday ensured that almost £400,000 of funding for refurbishing play areas over the next three years will be distributed to area committees according to levels of deprivation, providing more money for working class areas. [More...]
11 February 2007
The IWCA will be setting out its budget amendments at the full council meeting on Monday 12 February. Here is an outline of our proposals. [More...]
Oxford Labour admits anti-IWCA allegations were ‘incorrect and without foundation’ - 4 January 2006
Deputy Leader issues apology and pays £15,000 damages ...
More choice; worse choices - 4 January 2006
Is Choice Based Letting another attack on council housing?
IWCA on target for 2006 - 9 May 2005
Oxford IWCA is poised to take further seats on Oxford City Council at next year’s elections after encouraging results on 5 May ...
IWCA to take legal action over Labour dirty tricks - 12 April 2005
Malicious smears made in a recent local Labour newsletter show how desperate the party has become in it’s response to the IWCA ...
Judge condemns ‘massive, systemised and organised’ postal voting fraud surrounding election of Birmingham Labour councillors - 5 April 2005
As the Electoral Reform Society tells of election rigging cases by each of the main parties the IWCA warns voters to be careful who they entrust with postal ballots and application forms at the forthcoming
election ...
An in depth look at New Labour: what it is, where it has come from and where it is going - 28 March 2005
‘Eventually values and interests merge’ - new article on the IWCA national website ... Also on the IWCA national site: Labour MP Austin Mitchell’s attack
on his own government's ‘knee-jerk’ privatisation of public housing and contempt for tenants’ choices ... Read article
Val leaves voters in the lurch - 25 March
Val Smith, the former councillor for Blackbird Leys—once a Labour heartland seat—has come under heavy fire for her decision to quit as a city councillor and stand in the forthcoming county
council elections: see report on the Blackbird Leys IWCA website ...
A challenge to Andrew Smith! - 24 March
The IWCA calls on the Labour Oxford East MP to come out and debate the real issues affecting Oxford residents instead of hiding behind the personality politics
and spin of his party ...
FACTS update: Council’s response to FACTS campaign ‘unprecedented’ - 13 March
Following delivery of the IWCA’s first FACTS newsletter, Oxford City Council has put out a leaflet entitled ‘The real
FACTS about the options’, which appears to be a thinly-disguised party-political attack on the IWCA’s campaign to keep tenants
fully informed about the stock options process ...
Also included in the FACTS update: Is Labour planning to go against tenants’ wishes?,
Tenants penalised for opting to stay with the council,
IWCA only party to support right-to-buy discount ...
Votes of the low paid are worth 20p an hour - 1 March
New Labour’s last ditch attempt to persuade its core voters that it hasn’t abandoned them altogether continued on Friday with a promise that the minimum wage would rise from £4.85 to £5.05 per hour.
But it turns out that even the former director of the CBI is to the left of Labour on this question ...
Defecting MP confirms Labour are the new Tories - 9 February 2005
Robert Jackson, the Conservative MP who joined the ranks of New Labour last month has recently been out campaigning in Rose Hill, according to the Oxford Mail
(‘Tory defector presses the flesh for Labour’, 7 February). No doubt the few remaining Labour supporters in this working class ward were dismayed to find one of the old enemies
canvassing on their doorsteps ...
‘We live here too!’ IWCA announces candidate for Oxford East - 20 January 2005
Maurice Leen, 38, who lives in Cowley with his wife and two children, was elected to receive the party nomination at a recent Oxford IWCA meeting. ‘At the General Election people across the UK will have
the choice of the same three main parties, all of which have similar policies and the same anti-working class agenda. I’m standing in Oxford so that here at least there is the choice of a working class
candidate who is prepared to fight for the interests of working class people,’ said Maurice ...
FACTS campaign launched: Your Home, Your Future, What Choice? - 7 January 2005
In response to Oxford City Council’s stock options appraisal—looking at options for privatising local authority housing—Oxford IWCA has launched the Fight Against Council Transfers and Sell-offs
campaign. The first issue of the FACTS newsletter is now being distributed across Oxford to provide tenants with the information that the Labour-dominated council won’t ...
If you can’t beat em, abolish em! - 2 January 2005
After three years in which New Labour has taken a beating at local elections, and with voters increasingly turning to non-mainstream parties, the government has announced sweeping changes to local government
with drastic cuts to the numbers of councillors and the abolition of district councils alltogether ...
National disgrace: Oxford IWCA attacks New Labour’s record - 20 December 2004
A letter from the IWCA to the Oxford Mail points out that according to the National Office of Statistics the gap between rich and poor is not only increasing, but most scandalously of all, the
life expectancy of the poorest in society is falling behind that of their richer counterparts ...
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