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Economic Theory
– Articles for Discussion, Workers’ Centre of CPC(M-L) – Terms, Expressions and Words in Political Economy The terms, expressions and words employed in political economy reflect an…Read more…
Greece: A Case Against Austerity
– K.C. Adams – How to ruin an economy that is already in trouble and needs help not abuse Stickers call for people to vote “No” en masse to austerity in the referendum July 5….Read more…
Building Resistance against Austerity:
Quarter of a Million People Declare No to Austerity An estimated 250,000 people marched through central London on June 20 to demand an end to austerity, with thousands more demonstrating in Glasgow,…Read more…
Greek bailout referendum:
Oppose the Dictate of the EU and IMF! On Sunday, July 5, the Greek people will vote in a referendum over whether to accept the bailout conditions proposed on June 25 by the “troika” of the European…Read more…
Greece: Key commentary
Where is My European Union? The European Ideal has been Irreversibly Damaged Alex Andreou Byline 28 June 2015 As Greece prepares for a monumental decision, there is only one certainty: the European…Read more…
Why investor protection matters so much in trade deals
The European Parliament will vote at last on Wednesday (unless the vote is postponed again, until the autumn) on the most toxic element of modern trade deals: investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). Like the rest of the European trade union movement, we’re calling on MEPs to exclude ISDS,…Read more…
Greek referendum: ‘people power has happened’. Paul Mason
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Cameron’s EU renegotiation strategy matters to everyone in Europe
Pastor Martin Niemöller’s famous poem about Nazi persecution begins (in its most quoted version): “first they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist”. It eventually ends up “Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up…Read more…
The Peoples Press – we need to take back control.
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Guangdong women workers’ centre on the brink of shutdown
Since June, Sunflower Women Workers’ Centre, a three-year-old labour NGO based in Guangdong province that has been active in helping factory girls’ defend their rights, was told by the local civic…Read more…
A learning and teaching toolkit for vocational education
Professor Bill Lucas will be giving a keynote speech at the ATL’s FE conference 2015 in London on Friday 10 July. Elsewhere in the world, they talk about pedagogy when discussing vocational…Read more…
UNISON Labour Link 2015: Day 2 – meet the “Newbie” MPs
Day 2 of the National UNISON Labour Link Forum in Manchester started this morning with a “Parliamentary Panel” of MPs and MEPS (see picture). It was inspiring to see 3 new MPs who come from our movement sitting for the first time alongside longer…Read more…
UNISON #Lablink15 Day 2 ‘Meet the Newbie MPs’
Day 2 of the National UNISON Labour Link Forum in Manchester started with a Parliamentary Panel of MPs and MEPS (see picture). It was inspiring to see three new MPs who come from our movement…Read more…
Middle-income families with kids hit hardest by Tory cuts
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Race Equality & Organised Labour
Colleagues,
Many thanks to Trish Lavelle (CWU Head of Education) and CWU colleagues at the union’s magnificent education facility Alvescot Lodge in Oxforshire, for organising and hosting another fantastic BME Leadership Weekend.
Yet again we have been…Read more…
Tolpuddle in Tuscany: talking Brexit & Grexit
Last night I was sat in a tent for a couple of hours on top of a hill in Tuscany, alongside the current and future Presidents of the European Trade Union Confederation (Ignacio Toxo from…Read more…
Happy 123rd Anniversary of Keir Hardie election of first ever Labour MP
Today (4 July) is not only the anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence (arguably the only successful British Revolution) but also the election of the first ever Labour MP, Keir Hardie.
He was elected for West Ham South in 1892. Ph…Read more…
Why the social security system is vital to low paid workers
As we await the the assault on working people in the first Tory budget next week, new data points to better ways of supporting the low paid and reducing inequality.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has…Read more…
MEPs must listen to the people and vote down #ISDS compromise in #TTIP debate
Our MEPs look set at last to debate and vote later this week on the promised resolution on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal between the EU and USA. The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) is calling on MEPs to vote a…Read more…