National News
More job losses at Rolls Royce
by New Worker correspondent
ON THE 20th June Rolls Royce announced it will cut 4,600 jobs worldwide out of a workforce of 55,000 people spread across 50 countries. This means that nearly 10 per cent of the workforce will lose their jobs by 2020.
Rolls Royce bosses tried to defend the job cuts,
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MP Calls for action on Gig Economy
GMB, the union for agency workers, has backed an MP’s call to end the scourge of insecure work.
Stephanie Peacock, MP for Barnsley East, sparked the Parliamentary debate following her Private Members Bill calling for greater protection of Agency Workers.
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Workers Notes
Civil servants up in arms over pay
by New Worker correspondent
ALL THREE main civil service trade unions have denounced the Government’s miserable pay guidance published on Monday. Despite promises that this year would see improvements, austerity still rules.
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May urged to prepare to walk away
PRIME Minister Theresa May was told by 60 influential politicians, economists and business leaders on Sunday that she must prepare for a no-deal Brexit.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political correspondent
Backstabbers’ gazette
IT IS of course too early to tell if Tuesday was the day of the short sgain-dubhs (daggers) or just another rearrangement of the deckchairs on the Titanic. At any rate, it was the day first Minister Nicola Sturgeon reshuffled her Cabinet just before Holyrood closed down for its two month summer break.
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Ineos again
The Scottish Government recently both won and lost the same important court case. This pyrrhic victory was the case of Ineos, owner of the Grangemouth oil refinery, who raised a judicial review to overturn the SNP Government’s much publicised ban on fracking.
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Transport Woes
In the wake of the East Coast rail franchise returning to public control, Monday saw Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard step up Scottish Labour’s demands for public ownership of the railways at an event at Glasgow’s Central Station.
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Local Government blues
Labour is in a spot of bother in Aberdeen, where nine Labour councillors have been suspended for forming an official alliance with the Tories after losing seats
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Peace in Korea now!
by New Worker correspondent
THE NEW American embassy in Nine Elms is a giant glass cube with disguised fortifications in a quiet part of town. But last weekend NCP leader Andy Brooks and other comrades stood outside the moated compound to loudly call on Donald Trump to honour the pledges made in Singapore and work for peace and tranquillity on the Korean peninsula.
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FILM REVIEW Dinosaur chic in the Jurassic world
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, general release, 2018 PG-13
by New Worker Cinema Correspondent
THE TERM dinosaur is often a by-word for anything either actually dead or in some way out of date. A few years ago anyone who suggested that rampant privatisation, or perhaps said that the water industry should be taken back into public ownership, was described as one.
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Bristol stands by Cuba
by Alex Kempshall
AT A Bristol Cuba Solidarity Campaign meeting in June, at the historic Wills Memorial Building in Bristol University, Canadian author Arnold August opened a discussion on Cuba’s relations with US imperialism. Arnold opened the topic Cuba US relations back to the future with Donald Trump? by explaining that since his election US President Donald Trump has overseen a reversal of improved Cuba—USA relations
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International News
Czechs alarmed by Merkel’s revanchist remarksplaced
Sputnik
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has declared that the expulsion of ethnic Germans from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe after the Second World War had no “moral or political justification.” Czech Peace Forum chairwoman Vladimira Vitova explained what is so dangerous about Merkel’s comment.
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Pastors for Peace launches new Cuba support campaign
Radio Havana Cuba
PASTORS for Peace, a special ministry of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO), has launched a 10-day caravan of vehicles, travelling across America, as a prelude to its already traditional “Friendshipment Caravan” to Cuba in July, started in 1992 by the late Reverend Lucius Walker.
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Arab traitor meets Israelis
Syria News
SAUDI Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have held secret meetings in Amman, according to Israel’s Maariv newspaper.
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Sad record of migrant children refugees
Radio Havana Cuba
UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, has just disclosed that the world is holding no less than 30 million children and adolescents who qualify as refugees, most of them without the company of an adult or family member — a regrettable situation the likes of which had not been recorded since the Second World War, when the conflict devastated large portions of our planet.
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Zimbabwean president mourns victims of rally blast
Xinhua
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sent a message of condolence on the death of two security officers following a terrorist explosion at a rally last weekend.
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Features
Bilderbergers meet in Turin
Sputnik:
The Bilderberg Group held another of its secrecy-laden meetings in Italy in June. Some see the gathering as a chance for the global elite to hobnob and work out a common policy. Others claim it’s a shadow world government. Daniele Scalea, an analyst from the Machiavelli Centre for Political and Strategic Studies, says the truth is somewhere in between. Following the rules set by its founder, American billionaire David Rockefeller, two thirds of the group’s members are representatives from Europe. The remaining third represent North America.
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The ‘Molly Maguires’ labour war in the US coal country
by Chris Mahin
AS THEY mounted the scaffold together, the two miners joined hands. The older man said to the younger one: “Let’s die like men.” Then the trapdoor was pulled from under their feet, and two bodies dangled in the air.
“The degree of nerve of both men … was extraordinary,” a newspaper reported. The gallows were cleared. Four more leaders of the miners’ struggle were executed in rapid succession. On the same day, on another Pennsylvania scaffold, four other miners were hanged.
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