National News
Brexit bribery?
Sputnik
THE opposition is accusing Prime Minister Theresa May of bribing poor towns with a billion pound plus fund. Some have slammed the deal as an attempt to win over Labour MPs in constituencies that voted to leave the European Union to back Mrs May’s Brexit plan.
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Class war in the air and on the ground
by New Worker
correspondent
BRITISH Airways (BA) recently announced that it made a profit of £1.95 billion, an improvement since the £230 million loss a decade ago. Despite BA’s increased prosperity, workers both in the air and on the ground are not happy about a recent miserable pay offer from the company
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Sauce for gander and goose
by New Worker
correspondent
THE NEWS that a dedicated group of public servants have won a 2.7 per cent pay rise without the necessity of even so much as single strike ballot has not been the occasion of unrestricted rejoicing by trade unions
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Pensions
by New Worker
correspondent
IN NORTH Carolina a single elderly woman still collects a small pension because her father served in the American Civil War.
Although the British coal industry is now almost equally part of history it has left behind a more complex legacy of pensions — but they are finding it more difficult to get their due
than the lady of North Carolina.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political correspondent
Bawbees Again
NEARLY five years after the referendum the Scottish National Party (SNP) is to consider establishing a new Scottish currency. The pretend deputy leader Keith Brown (the real one is Nicola Sturgeon’s husband) and finance Secretary Derek Mackay have announced that they will be putting forward a motion at the party’s April conference so that members can give it the stamp of approval. As is the nature of SNP conferences, this will be granted.
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More “dehumanising”
According to the SNP the present welfare system in Britain is “dehumanising”. The help that was supposed to be at hand has been postponed however
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For peace and socialism!
by New Worker
correspondent
COMMUNISTS from Britain, Scandinavia and North America sent a solidarity message to the beleaguered Bolivarian revolutionary government in Venezuela at the close of a joint mission to People’s China for a series of seminars on the economy and the development of socialism in China today
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It’s our NHS!
by New Worker
correspondent
A LUNCH break protest was organised by the GMB union last Friday in support of SERCO workers at Hammersmith Hospital who are demanding the London living wage and an end to zero hours contracts
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For Spanish freedom!
by New Worker
correspondent
LAST SATURDAY saw the unveiling of a memorial to those British seafarers who broke the blockade of Republican Spain during the Spanish Civil War. It is situated on the riverbank beside the main railway bridge into Glasgow and near the more famous statue of La Pasionaria. The unveiling was the end product of fifteen years effort and was financed by transport union RMT’s Glasgow Shipping Branch.
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International News
Failed summit
by Jorge Ruiz Miyares Radio Havana Cuba
THE SECOND summit between the leaders of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States concluded with no surprises. The meeting was suddenly cancelled before any of the substantive issues were discussed and any document was signed.
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Army vows no return to bloodshed in Algeria
Sputnik
PEOPLE all across Algeria have been protesting against the nomination of 82-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika for the forthcoming presidential election for a fifth consecutive term.
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Tension eases between India and Pakistan
by Liang Jun and Bianji Xinhua
A KEY train service, the Samjhauta Express between India and Pakistan, resumed on Monday carrying some 150 passengers from Lahore station in the Punjab to the Indian capital. The rail service between Lahore and Delhi was closed during the recent upsurge of violence in Kashmir.
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Russia and China veto US drive against Venezuela
Radio Havana Cuba
by Lena Valverde Jordi Radio Havana Cuba
UNITED Nations Security Council members met last week to vote on two opposing resolutions on Venezuela that were presented by Russia and the United States. A resolution needs nine votes in favour and no vetoes by Russia, China, France, Britain or the United States to pass.
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Features
France in turmoil: workers demand justice
By RÉmy Herrera Workers World (US)
IN FRANCE, 5th February was a day of general strike and demonstrations. The call was launched nationally by the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) and many other unions, such as Solidaires and Force Ouvrière, unions of high school students, as well as by Yellow Vest leaders.
Maxime Nicolle of the Yellow Vests said: “All those who support the Yellow Vest movement must go on strike because the only thing that will make the government give anything up without violence is to disrupt the economy.” Several leaders of political parties, from the New Anti-Capitalist Party, France Unbowed (France insoumise) and the French Communist Party also joined.
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Juan Guaidó: traitor!
by Jorge Ruiz Miyares Radio Havana Cuba
THE self-proclaimed “Provisional President of Venezuela”, Juan Guaidó, is an expert in dangerous actions, who — in pursuit of his unending ambition — will go down in history as a person that broke all the rules of decency and democracy
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Labour’s bogus ‘anti-Semitism problem’
by Neil Clark Sputnik
IF YOU repeat a lie enough times, people will think it’s true, the old saying goes. In 2003 the neocons repeated ad nauseam the claim that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD. It wasn’t true — but was said with so much confidence that people felt scared of expressing scepticism.
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