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By our industrial correspondent
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Monday, 22 November 2010 |
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The right wing suffered a big set back in the election for the new
General Secretary election of Unite, Britain’s biggest trade union with
1.4 million members. After an excellent campaign rank and file candidate Jerry Hicks came second beating the main establishment candidates of the right wing.
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By Fightback (Ireland)
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Friday, 19 November 2010 |
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News that
the Coalition are in discussions with the EU and IMF won’t come as a
shock. Reports have been circulating for days now that the EU and the
Finance Ministry have been locked in discussions and some have even
claimed that the IMF have been briefing the heavyweight financial
bourgeois press internationally in an attempt to pressurise the
coalition and the opposition parties into seeking a deal.
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By Our Royal Correspondent, Cde Cromwell
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Thursday, 18 November 2010 |
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In ancient Rome, when things got a bit tricky, the Emperor would splash
out on a series of games complete with gladiators, mock battles, lions
eating Christians and other fun for all the family, The idea was to
distract people from the realities of life and keep them happy - at
least until the Goths arrived for their annual bout of pillaging,
sacking and raping. Nowadays, such carnage is not possible - even on X Factor. So we have the next best thing, yet another royal wedding.
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By Tony Healy
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Thursday, 18 November 2010 |
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IRELAND: The Soldiers of Destiny are floundering out to sea far from
the coast of Donegal; or at least they don’t seem to be in the same
place as the voters. A report in the Irish Times today
quotes a RedC poll carried out on behalf of Paddy Power which indicates
that FF support in Donegal South West has collapsed from 51% to around
19% since 2007.
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By Blacklist Support Group
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Tuesday, 16 November 2010 |
Trade union member Phil Willis has won a landmark legal judgement (Wed 10th Nov), that massively boosts the chances for other
blacklisted workers seeking justice in UK courts and may open up
construction employers to millions in damages.
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By Lal Khan
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Tuesday, 16 November 2010 |
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The biggest crash in the history of
capitalism in 2008 has created a new “normality” across the planet. This
has led to vicious cuts and severe attacks upon the workers in most
countries. The welfare states in Europe and elsewhere are being
aggressively dismantled. After the failure of Keynesianism the
neo-liberal model of capitalism, known as trickle-down economics,
Thatcherism or Reaganomics, has been an even bigger disaster.
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By Ben Peck and Adam Booth
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Friday, 12 November 2010 |
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Events have taken a turn in Britain as
the first mass reaction took place this week against the programme of
vicious cuts being introduced by the Tory-led coalition. On Wednesday,
November 10th, London witnessed an overwhelming response from the
students as a demonstration of over 50,000 marched in protest at the
attacks taking place in Higher Education.
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By Steve Jones (Pictures)
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Friday, 12 November 2010 |
 Here are even more pictures from the demo called by the NUS and UCU on November 10th in london against cuts in education
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By Steve Jones (Pictures)
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Friday, 12 November 2010 |
Here are some more pictures from the Nov 10th demo against cuts in education.
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By Steve Jones. Georgios Diakogeorgiou (Photos)
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Thursday, 11 November 2010 |
 Yestersday's NUS/UCU demo in London against attacks on further education
attracted over 50,000 mainly students, who came in their numbers from
all over the country. Many of these were young people demonstrating for
the first time ever. It will not be the last. As the attacks start to
bite, more and more youth will come into activity and draw the political
conclusions.
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By Darrall Cozens, UCU and Coventry Trades Council.
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Thursday, 11 November 2010 |
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If anyone still
had any illusions that “we are all in this together”, the Browne Report
and the
Comprehensive Spending Review quickly shattered them. By their actions
this
Coalition has shown it is a government of the rich, by the rich, for the
rich.
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By http://www.jerryhicks4gs.com/
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Tuesday, 09 November 2010 |
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Running simultaneously and arguably as crucial as the election for
Unite’s General Secretary itself is the BA dispute and a proposal to
‘settle’ it. 12 months ago British Airways cabin crew on an 80% turn
out, voted by a brilliant 92% to take strike action to defend their hard
won terms and conditions. The dispute started as a result of the
imposition and erosion of ‘Terms and Conditions’ but has been diverted
by British Airways and is now being defined by staff travel and the
disciplinary process. But with scores of cabin crew suspended and a
dozen sacked, the proposed ‘deal’ is already unravelling.
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By http://www.jerryhicks4gs.com/
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Tuesday, 09 November 2010 |
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Here is the latest from the Jerry Hicks campaign with just 8 posting days left to get those ballots in to elect Jerry as the new GS of Unite.
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By Declan Connolly
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Monday, 08 November 2010 |
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As we look towards this Wednesday's march of students in London, here is a report from the Irish Marxist site Fightback on how students in Ireland are fighting back against the cuts.
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"Please can I take this
opportunity to convey a massive thank you to all those who contributed
in our campaign and produced a result that the media and political
parties said was not possible. To our great credit we always believed
and knew otherwise"
