National News
Speaker rules on Brexit vote
Sputnik
A MOTION that is the same or “substantially the same” as the motion that has been rejected by the House of Commons, cannot legally be brought to Parliament for another vote, according to the Speaker, John Bercow.
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United Against Racism!
by New Worker
correspondent
ON SATURDAY London comrades joined thousands of other anti-fascist protesters who marched in unity against racism and fascism following the massacre of Muslims at a mosque in New Zealand last week. They assembled in Park Lane and marched to Downing Street, pausing only to lay a wreath at New Zealand House in memory of those who died in the attack in Christchurch, the New Zealand capital. They marched along with those in Glasgow, Cardiff and 60 other cities across the world taking part in similar events to mark United Nations Anti-Racism Day.
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On the buses
by New Worker
correspondent
UNITE the union started a consultative ballot on Monday over Lothian Buses’ management withdrawing facility time for the union’s branch chair and branch secretary in response to them having lodged collective grievances over poor workplace relations
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Another outsourcing disaster
by New Worker correspondent
UNIONS HAVE been taking action at the news that Interserve is the latest outsourcing company to run into financial difficulties with potential consequences. On Friday the company was forced into administration after a rescue package was rejected by shareholders
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Wage in need of repair
by New Worker
correspondent
ANOTHER instance of the drawbacks of outsourcing on workers was in evidence on Tuesday when maintenance workers employed by private contractors Mears and Mitie at Crawley council in West Sussex staged a protest outside the borough council offices to complain at almost a decade-long pay cut.
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Tackling air pollution
by Xuxin Xinhua
PUBLIC Health England (PHE) has put forward a series of recommendations aimed at reducing the 28,000 to 36,000 deaths per year in Britain that are attributed to long-term exposure to polluted air.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
NHS Woes
ALMOST HALF of Scottish Government spending goes on the National Health Service and the Scottish National Party (SNP) never misses a chance to remind us about how much more they are pouring into every aspect of health. Sometimes however, it appears that more money simply results in bigger blunders.
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Edukashun Newz
Colleges Scotland, the quango in charge of Scotland’s further education sector, has come under heavy fire from the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) college lecturer’s section, the Further Education Lecturers’ Association (FELA).
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Manchester KFA kicks off!
by New Worker
correspondent
THE KOREAN Friendship Association (KFA) returned to Manchester last week after a 10-year gap, with the aim of starting a new KFA branch for the Manchester area.
The meeting was convened hurriedly in a local pub after the Quakers banned the friendship movement from their meeting room, to hear KFA Chair Dermot Hudson talk about his recent visit to the Democratic Korea
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United for Grenfell!
by New Worker
correspondent
SEVERAL hundred people from the local community along with many trade unionists joined the 21st Silent March for Grenfell last week, including fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack. The dignified and very moving event remembering the 72 people who died in the .fire starts from close to the Grenfell Tower every month, and on this occasion ended with calls for justice and change from local community activists including the rap artist Lowkey
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Support Venezuela’s revolution!
by Theo Russell
VENEZUELANS and supporters of the country’s Bolivarian socialist revolution gathered in London in March for a working meeting of the European Network of Solidarity with Venezuela entitled ‘Venezuela, a country under attack’.
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International News
Repugnant and disgusting US lies
by Guillermo Alvarado Radio Havana Cuba
THE SPANISH edition of the New York Times has just published a repugnant article suggesting that the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela uses the widely available Cuban medical services in that country to exert control over the civilian population, use votes for Maduro in exchange for medical supplies and maintain other measures of social pressure.
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National dialogue to end Algerian crisis
Sputnik
ALGERIA has been hit recently by a wave of mass protests against long-time President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who intended to run for his fifth consecutive term in the next presidential election. The leader eventually revoked his bid but the protests have continued.
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Crimea’s long road home
Sputnik
ON 18th March the Republic of Crimea celebrated the fifth anniversary of its reunification with Russia. On 27th February 2015, the State Council of Crimea amended a Law On Holidays and Memorable Dates of the Republic of Crimea, making 18th March an official holiday to be celebrated every year as the Day of Crimea’s Reunification with Russia.
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Features
What do women want?
by the Donetsk Aurora Women’s Club
Donetsk People’s Republic
Red Star over Donbas
We have often been asked about why we have a women’s communist organisation and what we are fighting for. Here’s our answer.
We WANT a world without exploitation and oppression
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Hunger and the crisis in American agriculture
by Deirdre Griswold Workers World (US)
DO YOU KNOW what it feels like to be hungry? Not just missing a meal or being too busy to take a break. Hungry. All the time. Feeling weak and fatigued from hunger. Needing to put some food in your belly — but not having the money to do it.
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US imperialism isolated over Venezuela
Sputnik
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday that all the American diplomats have left Venezuela, adding that they will continue managing the flow of “US aid” into the country. Sputnik spoke to Francisco Dominguez from the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign and asked him how he thought the Venezuelan crisis could develop.
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