Flora, fauna, climate, conservation, ...

Appreciation of, and the battle to defend, those we share the planet with

Saving the planet

Battles against privatisation and cuts

Poems and pondering on all matters health, and on fighting to defend our NHS.

Poems and ponderings on the health crisis that hit the world in early 2020.

Examining mental distress and ill-health and the (lack of) support available

Public transport - publicly-owned and -accountable, democratically run by workers and passengers, affordable, accessible, safe, efficient, environmentally-friendly ... cor, that'd be good, wouldn't it?!

We need them. The right wing attacks them.

Challenging discrimination and fighting for liberation

Fighting against racism and the structures and institutions that perpetuate it

Prejudice against, hostility towards, stereotyping of Jews

Disabled people campaigning for rights - for access, benefits, services and equality; against discrimination, cuts, prejudice and pity!

Autistic people face discrimination and prejudice in a society which expects us to understand and fit in with social rules that are not of our making.

Writing, training, speaking, campaigning ...

Action against discrimination.

Removing the barriers that prevent disabled people from travelling

'Neurodiversity' means that different people have different brain wiring. Those with a minority brain wiring - such as dyslexic, autistic and dyspraxic people - face discrimination at work and in wider society. 

Campaigning for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans* rights.

Socialist feminism! Everyday sexism! Women's struggles past and present!

Misogyny, discrimination, prejudice, ...

No women's liberation without socialism, not socialism without women's liberation

On average, more than two women in England and Wales are killed by a male partner or ex. And then there is rape, sexual harassment, and more.

The Women's Committee of the European Transport workers' Federation (ETF), on which Janine served 2014-17

Pages from (or about) the past. Those who do not learn from its mistakes are doomed to repeat them. 

aka the First World War

The year of strikes, struggles and soviets ...

The 1921 rebellion in Poplar, east London, when thirty Labour councillors went to prison rather than cut services or increase rates.

Workers' battles of the past that offer lessons and inspiration for the present and the future

Episodes and anecdotes from the history of moving around

or ... herstory

All around the world

Issues and campaigns from the continent of Africa and countries in it

Articles, poems and other items about Canada, the USA, Central and South America.

The world's largest and most populous continent

Australia, New Zealand and Pacific islands and nations

Europe the continuent, the European Union, and European countries.

Struggles and issues in Ireland

Stuff about the city where I (used to) live and (still occasionally) work!

The appalling fire on 14 June 2017, in which 72 people died, victims of inequality, corner-cutting and capitalism.

In East London. Where I used to live. Great place.

Theoretical articles, notes and events from the perspective of working-class self-emancipation.

Against it. For its supercession by socialism

There is a spectrum haunting Europe ...

Changing the world for the better

Fighting the fash

And if you think that's not fair play, remember this you must ... The Tories, they will spend their day mostly hating us.

Poems and articles about housing and homelessness.

Miscarriages of, and comments about.

A bourgeois workers' party, Lenin called it.

Defending refugees and migrants against a nasty, deadly right-wing assault. No borders!

Secular socialist views ...

Campaigns, strikes and struggles deserving of your support

Newspapers! Telly! All that stuff! Corporate ones that drive you up the wall; maybe some better ones that make you think ...

From the disastrous 2015 election, through the 2017 and 2019 elections, with more to come!

Scrap the Monarchy - it's an outdated, undemocratic bastion of privilege. Obviously.

No to terror. No to war. Unity is strength. Solidarity forever.

Working nine-to-five, round-the-clock shifts, only when the boss wants you or not working at all ...

Mainly football, but sometimes cricket, from time to time athletics, and occasionally other sports.

Workers' self-defence starts with getting unionised at work. This section includes material on the trade union struggles and issues I am involved in and/or urge you to support!

The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (UK). I have been a member since 1997, and served on the union's national executive 2011-13.

Janine was the founding Chair, and later Secretary, of transport trade union RMT's Disabled Members' Advisory Committee.

Janine was elected to this Committee in 2013 and each year since (except 2020-21), before leaving it in 2023.