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Today is ‘Let’s remember the Daily Mail supported Hitler’ day!
“It has been announced that December 28th is from now on to be the day when we should all remember that just prior to the Second World War, English newspaper the Daily Mail was actively supporting the Nazi dictator Hitler…..
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British Foreign Policy in the Middle East – Newham Compass
Advance notice of the next Newham Compass event on Tuesday 17th February
“British Foreign Policy in the Middle East”
with Mike Gapes, MP for Ilford South.
I have a clash (my UNISON branch AGM) so will not be able to make it. Which is a shame not l…Read more…
Referendum shows weren’t the highlight.
The Morning Star asked me to review the cultural side of the struggle for 2014. This is what I felt were the key moments of an eventful year. Next year already looks as if it too, is shaping up to be…Read more…
“Protect Our Pensions” – Tories latest attempt to destroy peoples futures
While driving today I listened to “Money Box” on Radio 4. The programme was about investing a windfall. Experts warned about all the financial rogues and con merchants out there who will rob people out of their money. It remind…Read more…
Review of the year
The major educational event of 2014 was the sacking of Michael Gove. Joy was unalloyed among the vast majority of teachers and school leaders as this most ideological of politicians was shown the…Read more…
A walk to Deganwy Castle and our common history of savagery
This morning I went for a Boxing Day walk from Conwy to Deganwy Castle. Trying to work off some of the xmas excess and build an appetite for this evenings traditional cold meats, pickles and baked potatoes.
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All Souls to Austerity, or ‘Gilded Age’ for Some?
IT might be Christmassy, if it had some decorations. But if it looks cold in this picture, now its worse -the lights are off, and the building’s up for sale.
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Bargaining Power To The People
By Leo Gerard USW International President During the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave workers a New Deal, raising wages and employment. Earlier this month, in the sparsely…Read more…
Merry Christmas to one and all
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A Christmas walk “In the Valley of the Elwy”
“Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales,All the air things wear that build this world of Wales…” Gerard Manley Hopkins
Off message but today I went for a truly beautiful walk in the “Switzerland of North Wales” the Elwy Valley.
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Crown Holdings Shareholders Warned Of Stock Price Losses Due To Toronto Strike
Workers forced on strike in Toronto by giant U.S.-based can-maker Crown Holdings, Inc. (CCK) are warning the company’s shareholders that Crown’s failure to settle the now 15-month labour…Read more…
Death toll among Qatar’s 2022 World Cup workers revealed
From the Guardian By Owen Gibson & Pete Pattisson Despite Qatar’s promises to improve conditions, Nepalese migrants have died at a rate of one every two days in 2014 “If fatalities among…Read more…
General Election 2015 “Why should I vote for you?”
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BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS INTERSERVE WATERLOO
Circular No IR/343/14 To All Branches, Regional Offices & Regional Councils Our Ref: BR2/19/123rd December 2014 Dear Colleagues BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRIAL…Read more…
Don’t let UKIP panto take the spotlight off low pay and exploitation
In the last few weeks we all seem to have been given tickets to an extended UKIP panto complete with a string of offensive racist/sexist/homophobic/fill in the blank one-liners and a gay donkey. While the papers are having a field day with this silly season, it shouldn’t distract us from the…Read more…
Is this the end of Local Government?
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Merry Red Crimbo
This is my favourite Christmas video. I have stopped sending cards and instead have donated money to further world revolution (aka Children in Need).
Merry Crimbo to all my Labour Party and trade union comrades and here is hoping for a change of …Read more…
UNISON | Special local government conference 2015 24 March!
http://www.unison.org.uk/about/events-and-conferences/national-conferences/special-local-government-conference-2015/
The challenge now is how to use the Special Conference on Tuesday 24 March. We need not only to consider the agenda for the Conference itself but also how we use this occasion to…Read more…
Tenants’ Win, and Russel Vindicated
I’VE never been a fan of Russel Brand. Just not my cup of tea. I’ve never watched his programme, didn’t like his treatment of Andrew Sachs or talk about “booky-wook”, and I went as far as to…Read more…