It has long been known that the Isle of Wight Council would eventually be dismantled by the Government. A recent letter to Government by Isle of Wight council is open to the idea of being brought…Read more…
TUC to organise national demonstration during Conservative Party Conference
The TUC will organise a national demonstration in Manchester this autumn against the government’s austerity agenda and attacks on trade unions. It will take place on Sunday 4 October and will begin…Read more…
Hullabaloo About Magna Carta:
From the article by Pauline Easton, “Hullabaloo About Magna Carta and Denial of Modern Definitions of Equality and Rights”. http://www.cpcml.ca/Tmlw2015/W45026.HTM#2 …According to the pundits, three…Read more…
The Modern Demand for Equality:
– Hardial Bains – Excerpt from A Future to Face written during the Referendum on the Charlottetown Accord in 1992. *** The demand for a right is the expression of the extent to which the…Read more…
Magna Carta:
Background to Magna Carta The 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, meaning “Great Charter,” is being marked this year. In the Anglo-American world, Magna Carta is considered one of the…Read more…
Trucast Pay Deal?
June 26th, 2015. A pay dispute has caused unrest at Docasters Trucast in Ryde. Workers might have to take strike action if a resolution is not found. According to Unite union rep, Gerry Rawlinson,…Read more…
Austerity is not an isolated thing in itself.
The neo-liberal offensive includes Austerity but it is part of a capitalist offensive, ant-austerity is one means to block the offensive and turn things around to develop the counter-offensive, but…Read more…
London Demo: END AUSTERITY NOW!
Armed Police try to intimade workers’ demo in Wolverhampton:
Gun-toting coppers fail to intimidate Sita protests Conrad Landin Morning Star WORKERS whose demos against the “social dumping” of labour have been met with gun-toting bobbies yesterday defied police…Read more…
The economy demands planning:
To Plan or Not to Plan – K.C. Adams – To plan (be) or not to plan (be), that is the question: Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,…Read more…
On the Action in the Isle of Wight against Austerity;
It is good that actions are taking place throughout the country in order to develop the Anti-Austerity movement. The scope and depth of the movement must also develop as well as its momentum….Read more…
Greek crisis: crunch time
Paul Mason We’re at a critical point in the Greek crisis, which is really the 2010-11 Euro crisis being unfrozen after five years of make believe solutions. Money is leaving the banking system at…Read more…
Defeat Austerity!
Carry Forward the Struggle against the Austerity Agenda! End Austerity Now! Demonstration “No to Austerity”, Newcastle June 6 The struggle against the Cameron government’s austerity…Read more…
How Many Have Died After Being Sent Back To Work By Work Capability Assessments?
AT WHAT COST, IDS? Morning Star Campaigners demand the truth of how many have died after being sent back to work by Iain Duncan Smith’s hated work capability assessments by Lamiat Sabin THE…Read more…
Projected implications for Britain on Greek exit from eurozone:
What impact would Grexit have on the UK? By Mark Broad Economics reporter, BBC As the UK is not part of the euro zone, it has not directly contributed to bailing out Greece since the country got into…Read more…
Government trade union reforms are a stain on the spirit of Magna Carta, says TUC:
Speaking ahead of today’s (Monday) 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said: “On the day when we rightly celebrate human rights and access to justice, our…Read more…
High Representative of the European Union receives Cuban First Vice President:
Díaz-Canel is heading the Cuban delegation to the CELAC-EU Summit, bringing together representatives of 61 countries and international organizations in the Belgian capital Author: Prensa Latina(PL)…Read more…
U.S. State Department identifies Posada Carriles as planner of 1976 terrorist attack
A declassified 1976 State Department document, released June 3, identifies Luis Posada Carriles as the most likely author of a terrorist attack on a Cuban airliner, which took the lives of all 76…Read more…
Criminal Manipulation of Currencies for Private Gain:
Banks’ Guilty Pleas Underscore Necessity for New Direction for the Economy – K.C. Adams – The global financial institutions Citicorp, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays and Royal Bank of…Read more…
Necessity to Organise against Government’s Proposed Anti-Trade Union Legislation:
The Queen’s speech threatened that the government would “bring forward legislation to reform trade unions and to protect essential public services against strikes”. This has posed the question…Read more…