National News
Truss faces economic crisis
by Ekaterina Blinova
LIZ TRUSS came out on top in the Conservative Party leadership election and became the next prime minister of the UK on 6th September after outgoing PM Boris Johnson officially submitted his resignation to the Queen at her Balmoral estate in Scotland. But what does the future have in store for the new British premier?
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Down the Tube
by New Worker correspondent
BACK IN London, RMT warns that the funding deal recently struck by Transport for London (TfL) with Government will lead to further strike action as the deal, which is valid until 2024, will attack tube workers’ pay and pension rights.
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Essential workers
by New Worker correspondent
THIRSTY people will be affected by two lots of industrial action.
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The chips are down
by New Worker correspondent
A LESS important, but telling, strike is taking place over this weekend. About 150 Unite shift workers employed at seven Grosvenor Casinos in London are walking out for three days from 6am on Friday to 6am on Monday. In a ballot, 91 per cent rejected a retention bonus offer of £600–£800. They are mainly croupiers and dealers, but some are waiters and kitchen staff.
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Going to court
by New Worker correspondent
FAST FOOD courier company Deliveroo is finding itself in the Supreme Court in a union recognition case brought by the small street union, the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB), which aimed at contesting Deliveroo’s denial of collective bargaining rights.
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Not just a pay cut but an M&S pay cut
by New Worker correspondent
AT THE Marks & Spencer (M&S) distribution centre in Thorncliffe, South Yorkshire, cleaning staff are facing a pay cut from £11.41 per hour to £10. This has been ordered by M&S, who instructed the cleaners’ employer GS Associates.
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Poverty pay,
billionaire boss
by New Worker correspondent
WHEN YOUR boss has a fortune of £24.5 billion you might expect a decent wage. But that is not the case at Hinduja Global Solutions in Liverpool, where workers at the call centre and back-office functions of the official Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) are on strike this week.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
POLITICAL life is returning to Scotland with the members of the Scottish parliament returning to Holyrood after their well-earned summer rest to deal with the economic crisis as well as a new tenant in Downing Street.
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When Britain and China fought as one
by New Worker correspondent
ON 1st October 1942, an American submarine sank a Japanese troop ship off Shanghai. Some 700 Japanese soldiers scrambled to safety when the Lisbon Maru went down. The 1,800-odd British POWs on board the ship were not so lucky.
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A Syrian artist on the British scene
by Rawaa Ghanam
FAMED Syrian artist Sara Shamma took part in the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) Summer Exhibition in London last month. Shamma, who has lived in London for the last six years, presented a portrait of the award-winning British actors Meera Syal and Sanjeev Bhaskar, who have won many awards.
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International News
The game of nuclear chicken in Zaporozhye
by Prabir Purkayastha
THE Zaporozhye nuclear power plant has become a focal point in the Ukraine war because any major nuclear incident there risks the release of radioactivity over a vast area.
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Decades of work on behalf of women
by María Josefina Arce
THE Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) was founded 62 years ago, and for more than six decades has worked hard for the empowerment of this sector of the population and their total reinsertion into society.
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Vietnam advances LGBT+ rights
by Paddy Colligan
THE Vietnamese Ministry of Health ensured on 3 August that members of the LGBTQ+ community will receive appropriate and respectful medical care.
Whilst legal protections of the Vietnamese LGBT community have been in place formally for several years, the application of these regulations has not been uniform.
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Google and Amazon workers protest against deal with Israel
by Ed Newman
HUNDREDS of employees of the American tech giants Google and Amazon will hold a protest rally this week against their companies’ recent billion-dollar deal with the Israeli regime
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Cuba strengthens ties with Indochina
by María Josefina Arce
THE USA has failed in its attempts to isolate Cuba. The Caribbean island has forged, over time, close ties of friendship and co-operation with countries of all latitudes, regardless of geographical distance, language and cultural differences.
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Ukraine’s offensive stopped in its tracks
by our Eastern European affairs correspondent
THE Zelensky offensive, which began last week, is already running out of steam with mounting casualties and little to show for it apart from the big push across no-man’s land near Kharkov
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Features
Only NATO could de-militarise itself!
by James Tweedie
IN A SCENE from the 1974 film The Four Musketeers the vain Porthos (Frank Finlay) shows the pious Aramis (Richard Chamberlain) his new trick: he draws his rapier and throws it into the bullseye of a target.
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