Lead story
Not a riot: REBELLION!
by Monica Moorehead
A MILITANT, youth-led uprising, ignited by police terror, has swept across the USA like wildfire and is now entering its second week. Trump has proudly declared himself the “law-and-order” president whilst threatening to send in the army to quell the protests. But this – and the present catastrophic coronavirus pandemic, resulting in over 102,000 US deaths and rising – has failed to contain the uprising sparked by an horrific videotaped police murder exposed on 25th March for the whole world to see.
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Not a riot: REBELLION
Newly essential workers
by New Worker correspondent
Shop workers union USDAW is quite rightly demanding that such efforts be properly rewarded. Their general secretary, Paddy Lillis, said: “For too long the essential contribution of workers in retail, distribution, delivery, food manufacturing and the funeral sectors have been undervalued and underpaid. After this crisis is over, we cannot return to the way things were before. Too many of our key workers delivering essential services are struggling to exist on low pay, facing abuse from the public and working under pressures that impact their mental health.”
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Newly essential workers
Image and Reality
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
A RECENT opinion poll showed that about four out of five people say Nicola Sturgeon has handled the present crisis well. Less than a third think that Boris Johnson has done well. This despite the fact Sturgeon has done more or less than same as Johnson, usually a week or so later, with some minor modification of policy to pretend otherwise.
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Image and Reality