National News
Stop Press
by New Worker correspondent
AMONGST those facing redundancy are workers at Reach, publishers of such edifying newspapers as the Daily Mirror and the Daily Express, along with provincial papers such as the Birmingham Mail, the Manchester Evening News, the Liverpool Echo, and a huge number of local newspapers.
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Dole for Dole Offices
by New Worker correspondent
IN WHAT one would have thought would have been an expanding government department in the present circumstances, nearly 700 Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff have already taken voluntary redundancy amidst an office-closure programme, according to Civil Service World
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No money left
by New Worker correspondent
OFTEN the process of redundancy can be worsened by the reluctance of bosses to cough up redundancy pay. One such case is that of the 430 workers at the Gateshead factory of Orchard House
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Subsidies for bosses
by New Worker correspondent
IN ROTHERHAM, 185 workers at Liberty Steel, which is owned by dodgy and much-subsidised businessman Sanjeev Gupta, are facing redundancy.
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A Twitter splatt
by New Worker correspondent
YET ANOTHER group of hard done by workers are those at the Twitter social media company.
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Scottish Political News
by our Scottish political affairs correspondent
SCOTTISH politics are unusually lively at present over the Scottish Government’s Gender Recognition Act, which has been blocked by the Westminster parliament using its veto over the devolved Scottish administration for the first time since the devolution era began in 1999.
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International News
False narratives are more infectious than the virus
by Meifang Zhang
CHINA is in the midst of adjusting its response measures around the COVID 19 coronavirus and its variants after a comprehensive assessment of the pandemic situation. This in itself should not be alarming, but encouraging, uplifting even, as any body of government led by responsible leaders will amend its approaches with new information, new conditions. It is the sign of good leadership, especially when applied with good science.
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Israel steps up its oppression of the Palestinians
by Vijay Prashad
ON 8th January 2023 the Israeli government revoked the travel permit of Riyad al-Maliki. This act is not unusual because Israel controls the movements of all Palestinians and routinely denies Palestinians the right to mobility, especially between the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza, and the territories designated as Israel.
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Greek communists call for return of Elgin Marbles
by New Worker correspondent
GREEK communists have long supported the call for the return of the Parthenon friezes known as the Elgin Marbles to Greece so that they can be put on permanent display at the Acropolis Museum in Athens.
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Tens of thousands march in Madrid
Radio Havana Cuba
TENS OF thousands marched through Madrid this week to stop the right-wing regional government’s ongoing attack on the public healthcare system. “Cutting public health is criminal!” demonstrators chanted, as they held placards against the push for privatisation and cuts.
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Licence to kill
by Anabela Fino
THE INTERNATIONAL repercussions of the police murder of George Floyd in 2020 testify to the power of social networks and, simultaneously, their brevity. The indignation generated by the images of police brutality went around the world, fed genuine indignation, mobilised protests and forced institutions and corporate media to admit that racist police violence is an unsolved problem in the USA.
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Huge protest in Tel Aviv
Radio Havana Cuba
Over 100,000 Israelis marched in central Tel Aviv and in two other major Israeli cities on Saturday night, protesting against far-right Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul the legal system and weaken the Supreme Court – undermining democratic rule just weeks after his election.
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Back in the fight against deforestation
Radio Havana Cuba
LAST November at the UN Climate Change Conference in Egypt, the then president-elect of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, expressed his commitment to the fight against climate change and the deforestation of the Amazon.
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Features
Laos: A land still scarred by the bombs of US imperialism
by Michael Christopher
XIENGKHOUANG province in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic is a vast, ancient plateau extending over 6,000 square miles between the Luang Prabang mountain range in the west and Annamite range in the east.
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Union leadership for class struggle or for business?
People’s Voice
(Canada)
The International Trade Union Confederation that was founded in 2006 is the heir of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), an anti-communist Cold War split from the World Federation of Trade Unions that was set up by the TUC and other Western European and American unions in 1949 with the covert support of the CIA.
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