MAY FIRST 2017 Urgent Need to Develop the Independent Politics of the Working Class and Uphold the Rights of All! On the occasion of May First 2017, the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain…Read more…
Housing in the South and Isle of Wight, as elsewhere, is an election issue.
Housing is a basic human right. In order to recognise this right and provide it with a guarantee. In building their opposition, workers need to elaborate the alternative of a modern public housing…Read more…
Happy May Day!
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Trades Union Acts: The Necessity for Workers’ Rights and Organisation:
The Necessity for Workers’ Rights and Organisation to develop empowerment and Opposition. The General Election campaign in its first week has already seen workers’ rights to organise in Trades Unions…Read more…
Royal Mail: Pension closure plan, yet another attack on working class pensions.
Workers will vote on taking industrial action over Royal Mail’s plan to end the current pension scheme. Royal Mail says the current scheme is “too costly”. Mail workers are being treated as if…Read more…
The General Election and the Necessity for Education
In the current General Election the issues surrounding social programmes will see the NHS, Education and Transport, raised to a greater or lesser extent. The NHS will be prominent but consciousness…Read more…
Letter to Island Labour pressures them to withdraw from the General Election on the Island:
Letter calls for Labour to make way for Greens on Isle of Wight Isle of Wight Labour parliamentary candidate Julian Critchley has said a call to stand aside for the Greens should be ‘put to…Read more…
Labour 20 pledges to working people (and 3 more of my own)
Finally, we are beginning to see some clear red water between Labour and the Tories on what really matters to British workers. While my wish list would like to see the reintroduction of wage councils, greater national insurance benefits for the self em…Read more…
Non-alignment of interests
I’ve recently found something that captures important points relating to competing interests within the firm: this news story about American Airlines. More specifically, the quote from the analyst is almost perfect:
“This is frustrating. Labor is being paid first again. Shareholders get…Read more…
Rights at work – this May Day, it’s all happening at once
You wait for years for the needs of working people to become the focus of political attention and then suddenly everybody’s interested. The onset of the General Election campaign has coincided with the beginning of Brexit negotiations and the long overdue dawning of understanding at the…Read more…
Labour’s Workers Charter
At last a radical employment rights programme set out by the Labour Party – can anyone disagree with these proposals? LABOUR’S WORKERS CHARTER Give all workers equal rights from day one,…Read more…
Labour’s plan promises to transform workplace rights, says UNISON
Commenting on the Labour Party’s 20-point plan for the workplace, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “Labour’s plan promises to transform employees’ rights. These proposals…Read more…
40 days to go – Campaigning in Forest Gate North & Ilford North
Yesterday we ordered our first West Ham CLP freepost leaflet (the relief). Today I had the Board for a team of local Party activists in Forest Gate North. There was 4 of us and I asked each of them to visit a particular address and ask the residents th…Read more…
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” Worker Memorial Day 2017
Today is Workers Memorial Day, and across the world trade unionists remember the 20,000 British and the 2.3 million deaths of workers worldwide who die prematurely every year in work related accidents or from occupational disease.
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Recession Rich: Britain’s wealthiest double net worth since crisis
Richest 1,000 families control total of £547bn, rising by more than 112% since 2009, and own more than poorest 40% of British households One of the mansions on the so-called billionaires’ row at…Read more…
Global trade deals can’t substitute for a good Brexit deal
This week the think tank OpenEurope published a report with recommendations for Britain’s future trade after it leaves the EU. It suggests that Britain may be able to make up much of its shortfall in trade resulting from leaving the EU by strengthening its trade, particularly in services, with…Read more…
Brazil’s first general strike in 20 years
This government is responsible for economic devastation and a deep recession…Read more…
Royal Mail pensions talks
The talks with the Royal Mail over plans to close its pension scheme in its current form are ‘complex and difficult’, Unite warned today (April 28). Unite, which has about 6,000 members…Read more…
May Day solidarity
As workers across the world prepare to gather on May Day (Monday May 1), Unite’s international director Simon Dubbins explains why now, more than ever, we must renew our commitment to…Read more…
Nestle U-turn slammed
Nestle is cutting up to 27 per cent of the Blue Riband workforce, as it moves production to Poland, despite promising not to make any ‘radical cost-cutting’, says Unite and the GMB. Earlier…Read more…