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Unite backs Corbyn – what about UNISON?
http://www.unitetheunion.org/news/unite-announces-corbyn-one-burnham-two-in-labour-leader-vote/
The Executive Council of our sister Union, UNITE, has shown the elementary consistency of backing, in the election for Labour Leader, the candidate who most…Read more…
One London: under the coalition, the capital’s economy moved even further from the rest of the UK
As the government’s flagship regional initiative seemingly flounders under the failings of investment in the railways and ahead of potential Budget announcements, it is worth reviewing just how far the regional reality is from the rhetoric. For over the period of the coalition, London moved even…Read more…
The Kindertransport “hero” Sir Nicholas Winton RIP
On the way back home on Saturday from the UNISON Labour Link forum in Manchester, I went through London Liverpool Street Railway station.
At the station I passed the statues of the “Kindertransport” children who were rescued from Nazi Europe and arriv…Read more…
Follow GLI’s International Summer School online
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The Walmart of the skies
Last week Michael O’Leary lost an important battle when a Danish labour ruled, if I understand it rightly, that workers at Copenhagen airport can take secondary action against Ryanair.
This is in response to the notoriously anti-union company’s latest…Read more…
Regional economic inequalities have increased since the recession, says TUC
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Unite backs Corbyn
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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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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…