National News
Library cuts
by New Worker correspondent
TWENTY YEARS ago, Hackney library staff were fighting for the reinstatement of overtime payments. Today another libraries’ battle, involving the same union in the same east London borough, is underway to oppose job cuts.
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University news
by New Worker correspondent
FROM university administrators to cleaners, workers at 19 higher education institutions up and down the country staff are taking strike action in search of decent pay under the auspices of Unison.
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NHS actions
by New Worker correspondent
IT IS looking increasingly likely that strikes in the NHS will be taking place.
With the Royal College of Nursing, Unite and Unison and smaller specialist unions having already voted for action, it appears that they will now be doing so after a letter from health Secretary Steve Barclay to the NHS Pay Review Body (NHSPRB) suggests that next year’s rise will be a mere two per cent.
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A high end strike
by New Worker correspondent
THE PRESENT strike wave has reached as far as Knightsbridge in the west end of London, where over 50 uniformed security guards and CCTV operators at Harrods will take part on a strike in protest against a seven per cent pay offer (half the present real rate of inflation of 14.2 per cent).
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
SCOTTISH politics recently experienced the strange sight of a Tory MSP denouncing the possibility of privatisation! This came about as the result of the discovery by BBC Scotland News of minutes of the 21 September meeting of senior NHS Scotland officials in which they discussed the creation of a “two-tier” system that would see the rich paying for treatment.
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Books, communists and talks in Liverpool
by New Worker correspondent
MARXISTS and communists gathered last Saturday at the 2022 Merseyside Marxist Book Fair to exchange literature and ideas and hold talks and discussions.
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International News
Korean friends rally in Spain
by New Worker correspondent
KOREAN solidarity activists from all round the world gathered in Spain for the annual international meeting of the Korean Friendship Association (KFA) in November.
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Let the world
hear China’s voice
by Liang Xiao
WITH NEARLY 50 years of diplomatic experience, Liu Xiaoming, who served as ambassador of China to the United Kingdom from 2010–2021, considers promoting the deepening of understanding between the Chinese and people of other countries a top priority for China’s diplomats.
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Hate in America
by Nancy O’Brien Simpson
I’VE BEEN on a hiatus, however, the hubris of the USA and its self-righteous bullshit burns through me. Writing is a catharsis to prevent my soul from being scorched by our hypocrisy.
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A hair’s breadth from escalation?
by Workers World (USA)
ON 15th November 2022 the world came close to a rapid escalation of the US-NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. Soon, however, representatives of the US government made statements that pulled back from the brink. For now.
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Cuba Russian summit in the Kremlin
by Catherin López
THE president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, held an important meeting in the Kremlin on Tuesday as part of the official visit of the Cuban head of state to the Russian Federation.
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This smells of danger
by Roberto Morejón
A MEETING of ultra-conservatives on the rampage, prone publicly to display their hatred, was organised in the name of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), created in the USA in 1974.and hosted by the American Conservative Union.
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Features
“We are not vanishing, we are not conquered”
by Moonanum James
Moonanum James, a co-leader of United American Indians of New England, died on 4th December 2021 at the age of 70. In honour of his memory, we reprint a talk he gave at the 49th Annual National Day of Mourning on 22nd November 2018 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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Bourgeois democracy and fascism
by J Sykes
COMMUNISTS have a proud history of fighting on the front-lines of the resistance to fascism, from the International Brigades in Spain, to the Anti-fascist Resistance in occupied Europe, to the heroic struggle of the Soviet people to defend the USSR and defeat Nazi Germany. The Soviets liberated the survivors of the death camps and led the assault on Berlin. From that practice theory has been developed to analyse what fascism is, how it develops and how it should be fought.
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