Britain
National Insurance hike: Tories rob workers to pay private health fat cats
Sharon Graham wins! Now build workplace power to win for workers
Plymouth shootings: Capitalism, misogyny and Incels
LEFT WING MAJORITY IN UNISON NEC ELECTIONS: NOW TRANSFORM THE UNION!
Rights & Wages of Pizza Express workers sliced and burned
The head offices of international chain Pizza Express are guilty of decimating the wages and livelihoods of the waiters and chefs who work for them. The attacks come in many forms.
Mass sackings by British Gas – The fight against fire-and-rehire bullying must continue
The new terms affect all the 20,000-strong workforce. But the 7,000+ field service engineers are the most impacted. It will mean them working more hours for no extra pay and that they will not be paid a higher rate to work weekends and public holidays.
Johnson praises the role of “capitalism and greed” in Covid response
On the anniversary of the first lockdown in the UK, Boris Johnson proclaimed to Tory backbenchers, “The reason we have the vaccine success is because of capitalism, because of greed, my friends.” The real result of the Tories’ callous, pro-capitalist policies during the Covid pandemic has been almost 130,000 lost lives, one of the highest per-capita death rates in the world. They were reluctant to lock down and rushed to re-open the economy, all because they wanted to minimise disruption to profit.
Shrewsbury pickets: at last found innocent
The recent Court of Appeals judgement that all of the Shrewsbury pickets’ criminal convictions of 1974 was based on inadequate evidence and should be overturned must be welcome. After 47 years, it is a stunning exoneration of trade unionists who suffered imprisonment and criminal convictions as a result of a vindictive and systematic campaign by the state.
Policing bill: sign of a weak government
Sarah Everard – Never Again!
We know that Sarah ‘did everything right’; she walked a busy route, she made a phone call and let people know where she was going and when she was going to be home. But that didn’t stop the violent attack that cost her life. Almost 80% of women killed by men in the UK were victims of their domestic partner and were killed in their own home. Safety measures would not have protected them.