National News
Unite calls for the state to support the energy sector
TOMMY Campbell, Unite the union regional officer and chair of the Offshore Co-Ordinating Group gave evidence to the Scottish Affairs Committee at Westminster on the future of the oil and gas industry this week. Unite has repeatedly criticised offshore oil and gas companies for using the recent downturn to impose regressive working practices across the North Sea. The industry moved quickly to cut pay and holiday entitlement and increased shift rotas following a sharp drop in the price of oil.
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Birmingham’s ‘Inspirational Woman’ wins award
BIRMINGHAM’S inspirational woman’ has won the Eleanor Marx Award at GMB Union’s 2018 Congress in Brighton
A Sandwell Council worker who fought to make sure terminally ill people could not get sacked for their condition won a prestigious award.
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Defending Palestinian rights in London!
by New Worker correspondent
EVERY YEAR for the last 30 years people have marched on Al-Quds Day around the world in support of Palestine. And on Sunday London comrades joined thousands of other supporters of the Palestinian cause in a march in support of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian Arabs.
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DWP Staff lacks skills to deal with domestic abuse
IN EVIDENCE to a parliamentary select commit the civil service union PCS , which represents about 200,000 staff in the civil service including admin staff in the hated DWP , stated that “that members don’t feel confident in dealing with domestic abuse cases”.
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Libya rejects plan to use frozen funds for IRA victims
The United Nations-backed Libyan government has rejected Britain’s intention to use the frozen Libyan funds in London to compensate victims of attacks by the IRA.
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Fossil capitalism
by our science correspondent
CAPITALISM seeks to make money from anything, regardless of any other wider interests. On Monday the fossil of a carnivorous dinosaur found in the western US state of Wyoming was sold for $3 million, well above the estimate by the Paris auctioneer Aguttes. This was in spite of worldwide protests from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) who warned that the specimen could be lost to science. This is not an isolated case, but part of a growing trend of private sales which by driving up prices thus, is putting potentially valuable specimens beyond the reach of cash-strapped museums and public institutions.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
SNP in Conference
THE SCOTTISH National Party held their Spring Conference in Aberdeen last weekend despite the fact that it
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Over Budget
Another SNP flagship project, the new The V&A Museum on Dundee’s waterfront has run into more financial trouble even before its September opening. It already has a £500,000 overdraft with its Swedish banker.
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Free Money for Nurseries
The SNP government’s high profile policy of wanting to almost double the amount of free nursery provision
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Racist rage in Whitehall
by New Worker correspondent
POLICE arrested five fascists in central London on Saturday after violence broke out during a protest against the jailing of former English Defence League (EDL ) leader Stephen Yaxley-Lennon who calls himself ‘Tommy Robinson’ in public. Robinson was jailed last month after he used social media to broadcast details of a trial that was subject to blanket reporting restrictions. Reporting restrictions are imposed on all court proceedings in Britain and are intended to avoid media reports that could
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Bringing Inner Mongolian music to Britain
Xinhua
WITH MUSIC flowing from head-horse fiddles, a traditional Mongolian bowed stringed instrument, the neighing of thousands of horses on vast grassland in Inner Mongolia, northern China, seems just before the British audience.
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Solo — A Star Wars Story
by New Worker Cinema Correspondent
THE STAR WARS franchise is over forty years old; to the extent its terminology has come into every day usage. For instance, a recent conference organised by the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign has been titled The Empire Strikes Back in Latin America; an obvious reference to episode six of the series
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International News
Việtnam’s got talent too
VNS
THE fiNAL of the biggest talent show in the United Kingdom, Britain’s Got Talent, took place last week, Lee Ridley, the ‘Lost Voice Guy’ won but two young brothers from Việtnam came fifth with a mind-blowing balancing act that stunned the live studio audience and the millions of people watching at home.
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Call to investigate Israeli war crimes
Telesur
PALESTINE has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch an investigation into what it describes as “insurmountable” evidence that Israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity on Palestinian territory.
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DUP gives succour to apartheid Israel
An Phoblacht
THE Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is giving succour to an apartheid state which massacres civilians by sending a delegation to Israel to strengthen economic and cultural links with the state, a Sinn FÉin member of the northern Irish legislature (MLA) has said.
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American row with Canada deepens
Radio Havana Cuba
US and Canada has escalated in the wake of last week’s G-7 summit. US President Donald Trump departed early from Quebec, where the G-7 leaders were gathering, on Saturday, saying a more urgent priority for him was an upcoming face-to-face meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Singapore.
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One US soldier killed and four wounded in Somalia
Sputnik
One American soldier was killed and four others were injured in a firefight in Somalia last week.
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Features
If Russia isn’t fit to host the World Cup, who is?
Sputnik
WITH THE 2018 World Cup in Russia fast approaching, excitement over the prospect of feasting on another quadrennial festival of football, this beautiful game that captivates like no other, is not being felt by some — specifically Western liberal commentators and politicians for whom the mere mention of the word ‘Russia’ brings them out in spots.
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Racism and capitalism
Guardian Australian communist weekly
AT THE end of the 15th century, several factors combined to hasten the demise of feudalism — the prevailing economic and social system based on ownership of land — and its replacement by a system based on possession of material wealth: gold or its equivalent
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Workers challenge Disney’s evil kingdom
Workers World (US)
THE Walt Disney Company is an entertainment conglomerate with two famous amusement parks and resorts, Disneyland (Anaheim, California) and Disney World (Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, Florida). While both locations are touted by the company as “the happiest place on earth,” this slogan is challenged by workers struggling
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