This weekend’s Morning Star has published three of my Edinburgh festival reviews edited into one article. It is here. It is a masterpiece of compilation and compaction, and I have the utmost respect…Read more…
Dangerous Situation on Korea Peninsula
U.S. Is the Threat to Peace on the Korean Peninsula! End U.S. War Games Now! No to U.S. Nuclear Blackmail! Tensions are rising on the Korean Peninsula because of the massive U.S. war exercises known…Read more…
Labour’s new McCarthyism is already beyond a joke
MARK STEEL (second from left), canvassing for Labour. But denied a vote in leadership contest.
AS left-wing maverick Jeremy Corbyn continues his amazing race towards the Labour…Read more…
Checking for discrimination in selection
There are many situations, from recruitment to promotion to redundancies, where employers make selections between people. You often hear people talking about the importance of doing “Equality Impact Assessments” and checking for discrimination, but I’v…Read more…
Labour Party Leadership discourse
Last Saturday I was in North Wales and went out for an evening meal and family get together in a small bistro restaurant in Ruthin, Denbighshire called “On the Hill”. There was 6 of us aged 25 to 74 sitting in a private table in the corner away from ot…Read more…
Cambodia’s minimum wage: employers plead poverty despite global brand pledges to pay
Cambodia is one of the main sources of textiles for Europe and North America, and it’s on the front line of the campaign for a living wage in global supply chains. So the forthcoming review of…Read more…
Steelworkers Gear Up For Lock Out
Rallies and marches have been planned from 19 to 21 August at ArcelorMittal facilities in four states: West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana as the United Steelworkers prepare for a major…Read more…
Remember Deir Yassin – and Forget Paul Eisen!
WITHOUT Fear or Prejudice. Jeremy Corbyn (second from right, in open neck) with friends at Islington event, in June this year. Every picture tells a story, not always the same one (see…Read more…
Vote FIAZ, Rokhsana #1 – London Executive on Association of Labour Cllrs
(In a personal capacity and as a Newham Cllr I fully support Rokhsana as a candidate to be the ALC rep for London. She has integrity and principles and will be a fantastic advocate for London Councils at the ALC).
Vote FIAZ, Rokhsana #1Association of …Read more…
Small gains, big pains
A newly issued briefing from the influential Centre for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) has said that the potential gains from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) would…Read more…
“There are growing fears about the health of the global economy”, headlines BBC News at Ten
Yesterday (20 August) Robert Peston’s report on the growing crisis in emerging market economies was given top billing on the BBC News at Ten (you might still be able to catch it here). Motivated mainly by the slowdown in China, and covering an array of stock market, exchange rate and other economic…Read more…
STAFF FEEDING – SELECT SERVICE PARTNERS
PLEASE RESPOND Circular No IR/198/15 To All Branches, Regional Offices & Regional Councils Our ref: HC/1/1 19th August…Read more…
The Labour Right – not purging but drowning?
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/08/labour-purging-supporters-jeremy-corbyn
I’m inclined to accept the analysis in the New Statesman above, and to accept that the so-called “#LabourPurge” is neither intended nor likely to alter the outcome of …Read more…
Get up and galvanise!
Unite Community activist Maureen Lenehan-Ferguson springs up from the settee to illustrate her point. “I won’t let them grind me down. I am 80 years old and I can touch my toes. So…Read more…
Carnival with a message
Bridport’s Unite Community Group got into the spirit of Carnival recently – and took the message “Save the NHS” to the thousands of people lining the streets in the Dorset market town….Read more…
Labour’s future is our collective responsibility
http://www.leftfutures.org/2015/08/what-will-bring-unity-to-labour-is-not-the-right-leader-but-the-strength-of-its-democracy/#more-44114
I’ve voted for Corbyn (and I hope you have too).
The online fuss about a “purge” may indicate that over zealo…Read more…
Qatar’s worker reforms at end of rainbow disappear again
It’s slowly dawning on us, here at Playfair Qatar, that the Gulf state hasn’t really hired London’s Portland Communications to do its PR, but has in fact engaged Derren Brown. The latest…Read more…
Protect the right to strike
The Tories’ new Trade Union Bill is a massive attack on civil rights, from the right to strike to freedom of expression and assembly.
TUC General Secretary Fraces O’Grady has produced a short video as part of the campaign against it:
The TUC has als…Read more…
KS5 2014 Results data last updated on 16 Mar 2015
Displaying 1 – 13 of 13 schools. ▲ School/College name School/College Type Average point score per % of A level students achieving A level entry A level entry expressed as a grade A level…Read more…
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