Jo Rust
Jo Rust lives in King's Lynn, Norfolk.
Education
- Went to Springwood High School, King's Lynn.
"We Shall Overcome"
Norfolk and Suffolk Morning Star Readers and Supporters Group event "We Shall Overcome", December 10, 2022.
With Jo Rust (Kings Lynn Trades Council), Claire Springett-Lees (Unite the Union), Roger McKenzie (Morning Star International Editor.
Moderator was Sean Meleady of the Communist Party of Britain.
Save the QEH
Jo Rust September 15, 2021 · Save the QEH. Campaigners on our way to Parliament to lobby our MPs and Sajid Javid to try and get full funding for a new hospital in King’s Lynn.
And we’ve got the Lynn News with us all the way.
— with Ian Barton, Ga Chun Yau, Pallavi Forestdweller, Francis Bone, Gordon S. Taylor, Robert Raab.
NHS in Crisis
September 4 2021:
Johnbosco Nwogbo (We Own It), NHS dentist Helen Duncan, Jo Rust of Save the QEH Hospital, Steve Marsling Toothless in Suffolk.
Chaired by Mark Jones Toothless in Suffolk.
Unemployment Fightback!
May 29 2021.
Speakers include Bill Greenshields and Mollie Brown of the Communist Party of Britain, Steve Turner, Mark Porter of Rolls Royce Unite, Rohan Kon of Sheffield Needs a Pay Rise, Johnnie Hunter YCL, Laura Smith - ex Labour MP and No Turning Back campaigner, Helen O'Connor - NHS activist, Sabby Dhalu of SUTR and Jackie Simpkins of War on Want and Mike Lynch of RMT.
Peter Middleman NEU, Henry Fowler StrikeMap, Jo Rust, Tam Kirby The People's Assembly, Rohan Kon Sheffield Needs a Pay Rise, Ian Taylor and Gawain Little, Jordi Lopez-Botley.
Founding conference
East Anglia People Before Profit founding conference December 2020.
Chaired by Jo Rust and with Jane Loftus, Krzysztof Szewczyk, Gawain Little, Martin Booth, Jamie Osborn, Dr Jim Graham and Ellen Clifford.
CPB
Geraldine Murray with Jo Rust.
Marx at 200
Liz Payne, Pervez Fateh, Jo Rust, Jonathan White.
Searchlight conference
November 2013 anti-fascist and anti-racist activists and academics gathered at the Bishopsgate Institute in London’s East End to debate the rising threat of extreme right-wing ideas throughout Europe and the western world and how to confront it.
The conference was called by the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight, which it marking its 50th year. Searchlight editor Gerry Gable told the New Worker that “many people when looking at the far right do not see beyond the British National Party and the English Defence League”.
Last Saturday’s conference began with a debate on the role of the trade unions in resisting fascism and racism that was chaired by Megan Dobney, regional secretary of the South East Region TUC.
Speakers at this session included Kay Carberry, who is assistant general secretary of the TUC, Mohammed Taj, a Bradford bus driver and a member of Unite who is the TUC’s first Asian President, Jo Rust from King’s Lynn trades council and Cathy Pound who is Searchlight’s trade union liaison officer.
The second session dealt with the “No Platform” policy chaired by Aaron Kiely, the National Union of Students Black Students’ officer and included speakers Dr Matthew Feldman who c-directs the Centre for Fascist, Anti-Fascist and Post Fascist Studies at Teesside University,Kyaz Mughal, founder and co-director of Faith Matters, veteran Searchlight activist Paul Crofts and journalist Tim Lezzard.
Session three was entitled: “Education in the front-line of the defence of young people” chaired by Dr Paul Jackson of the University of Northampton. Speakers included teacher David Rosenberg, Paul Mackney, former general secretary of the lecturers’ union Natfhe until it merged with AUT to become UCU, Kevin Courtney, the deputy general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, and Dagenham teacher Dominic Byrne who a long history of campaigning against racism.
The fourth and final session, on building a stronger, non-sectarian front of mutual support, was chaired by Gerry Gable. Speakers included Bob Archer, president of Redbridge NUT, Ulrike Schmidt, a musician, instrument-maker, teacher and Activist for Amnesty specialising in campaigning against the persecution suffered by the Roma community in Europe, Daphne Liddle from the New Communist Party of Britain, Steve Hart of the trade union think-tank CLASS and chair of Unite Against Fascism, Jo Cardwell, a leader of the very successful We Are Waltham Forest, which formed to keep the EDL out of the borough but now also campaigns against cuts and Maria Nikolakaki, Associate Professor of Education at the University of the Peloponnese in Greece and an active anti-fascist.[1]