National News
Company guilty of blacklisting
AN EMPLOYMENT tribunal last week found a major construction contractor guilty of blacklisting a prominent trade unionist.
On 10th November at Ashford Employment Tribunal, an employment judge ruled that Unite member, Phil Willis, had been unlawfully refused employment by CB&I because he is a member of a trade union, a prominent activist and was blacklisted because of this. He was awarded £18,375 in damages.
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Unions and students link up
TRADE union leaders, impressed by the size and vigour of last Wednesday’s massive student demonstration against rises in tuition fees and cuts in education services, last week said they are planning to link up with the students to build a wider campaign against Government cuts.
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Unions fight Southampton job cuts
EMPLOYEES of Southampton City Council face the loss of 250 jobs and a pay cut as the council seeks to make savings of £60 million — the amount that the Con-Dem coalition is cutting from its grants to the city council.
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London firefighter victimised
LONDON firefighters are campaigning for the immediate re-instatement of Sian Griffiths, the pioneering woman firefighter who was honoured by the Queen at Buckingham Palace last week for her distinguished service.
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Junk food companies to write health policy
THE DEPARTMENT of Health is enlisting junk and fast food companies MacDonald’s, KFC, Pepsico, Kellogg’s, Unilever, Mars and Diageo to write Government policy on health.
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A multitude of cuts
EVERYDAY we hear new public spending cuts but the mean-mindedness of some of them continues to shock.
Hardship payments
Among the drastic changes to the welfare system proposed by the Con-Dem government will be the withdrawal of hardship payments to unemployed people whose benefits have been withdrawn.
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Remembrance of Red Army heroes
by New Worker correspondent
DOZENS of people gathered on Remembrance Sunday at the Soviet War Memorial in Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park in Lambeth to remember the millions of Soviet citizens who died as a result of the Nazi invasion of their motherland and the Red Army heroes who smashed the invaders and delivered the world from the menace of Nazism.
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The spirit of the Aurora
by New Worker correspondent
THE GREAT OCTOBER Russian Revolution is celebrated by communists all around the world and every year friends and comrades gather at the NCP Centre to take part in the Party’s traditional celebration of the greatest event of the 20th century. Guests included comrades from the RCPB (ML), Socialist Labour Party, UK Korean Friendship Association and Left Front Art and, as usual, the old print shop was transformed into a bar and buffet for the event.
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Standing by the Seoul workers
by New Worker correspondent
NEW WORKER supporters joined others outside the south Korean embassy last Friday to condemn the puppet regime for its ongoing repression in the occupied south of the Korean peninsula.
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International News
Zionist hard-liners oppose US jets-for-freeze deal
by Gur Salomon in Jerusalem
HEATED debate erupted at the Israeli cabinet’s weekly meeting on Sunday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented his ministers with a US proposal to give Israel 20 stealth fighter jets in exchange for an extension of the freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank.
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G-20: Half measures for a dying economy
Radio Havana Cuba
THE G-20 SUMMIT in Seoul finished just as it started: huge contradictions and no proposals for a prostrated economic order. This meeting gathered the main powers of the world as well as some countries considered “emerging” because of the dimensions of their markets.
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Thousands more protest in Greece
Radio Havana Cuba
THOUSANDS of Greek protesters have taken to streets to protest at further austerity measures proposed by the EU and international auditors probing the cash-strapped country’s finances.
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Sinn Féin challenges Irish Labour over cuts
Sinn Féin News
SINN Féin spokesperson Martin Ferris TD has challenged the Irish Labour Party to say whether they stood with the Dublin Government “or with the trade unions and community sector on the timetable and scale of proposed cutbacks”.
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Obama’s uphill struggle
Radio Havana Cuba
THE REMAINDER of Barack Obama’s term has begun to appear as an uphill battle and tinged with Obama’s low popularity this appears to be the worst time of his presidency.
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Features
Chaos, capital and crisis
by Rob Gowland
THE CHAOS and innate ludicrousness of capitalism seems to get exposed more and more frequently these days than ever before. That may be only an illusion, of course: it may be that the mass media are simply more efficient than previously so we hear about more of these blunders and missteps than we used to. Possibly.
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Wall street provokes trade war
by Abayomi Azikiwe
Editor, Pan-African News Wire
A RECENT decision by the Federal Reserve to provide the bankers another $600 billion in bailout funds demonstrates the government’s continuing failure, even under Democratic Party leadership, to provide any relief for working people and the oppressed.
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Full support to the Korean people’s just cause!
LAST JUNE the second international preparatory meeting for the 17th World Festival of Youth and Students and an international meeting of youth and students supporting the Korean people’s just cause took place in Pyongyang with the participation of delegations and delegates from youth and students organisations of many countries and regions over the world. Tiago Alexandre Ferraz Vieira, president of the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY), expressed his impressions of Democratic Korea:
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