This is a campaign page set up by workers furious at the victimisation and sacking of the elected USDAW shop steward and convener in IKEA Glasgow, RICHIE VENTON, and IKEA’s attacks on workers’ rights and conditions, including removal of wages from workers off sick with COVID-19..
Extinction Rebellion Blockades Murdoch Press
We are posting this news item from Extinction Rebellion, following their blockade of Murdoch Press printers in Broxbourne, Liverpool and Glasgow. Dear rebels, Welcome to our Rebel Daily #4 – some of the only news available today! A team of over 100 rebels blockaded newspaper printers overnight, successfully preventing The Sun, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail…
Repression In Belarus Must End Demands IndustriALL
IndustriALL Global Union and the All European Trade Union jointly express their outrage, anger and protest at the disproportionate violence, persecution and arrests directed at people peacefully protesting the results of the presidential elections un Belarus on August 9.
In memory of Neil Davidson: The West – No Better Than All the Rest
Allan Armstrong was reading How the West Came to Rule – The geopolitical origins of capitalism, by Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglum, as he learned of the tragic death of Neil Davidson. This book was influenced by Neil’s work on Uneven and Combined Development at a world scale. Allan has engaged in several debates with Neil…
RACISM – CALLING A DIFFERENT TONE
The Emancipation & Liberation Editorial Board (EB) is posting this article by Will Stratford of the Platypus Affiliated Society (PAS) in the USA about the Left’s response to the BLM protests. PAS is a Left propagandist think-tank. The EB is taking up Stratford’s challenge to the Left to publish his arguments. We invite others to…
COVID-19 -JOHNSON’S CRIMINAL INCOMPETENCE
Eddie Ford (CPGB-WW) argues that by global standards the UK government’s handling of the pandemic has been appalling. COVID-19 -JOHNSON’S CRIMINAL INCOMPETENCE Last week we reached the grim milestone of 40,000 officially certified deaths from Covid-19. Given that at the start of the pandemic there was talk of 20,000 being a “good result”,…
JUSTICE FOR GRENFELL
It is 3 years since the tragic deaths of 72 people at Grenfell Towers. This video Justice for Grenfell was produced by Edinburgh Trade Union Council, the FBU, UNITE and the Living Rent campaign. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiYXW4cT8vM&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0JsCRIt7pVOzUjEYcqZQkEYjLWiyoRrVvxuoFDZLg2UZVuQmcjn8H5RD0 also see:- DEMOCRACY BURNS DOWN
RACISM, CAPITALISM AND CLASS STRUGGLE
Thus article, written by Josefina L. Martinez, in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, was first posted by Left Voice in the USA. RACISM, CAPITALISM AND CLASS STRUGGLE The anti-racist uprising in the United States over the brutal murder of George Floyd reopens a strategic question: How do we link the…
FANTASY FOOTBALL – THE IRISH LEFT AND FORMING A ‘LEFT GOVERNMENT’
This article, originally posted by Socialist Democracy (Ireland) looks at the attempts by People before Profit and RISE to form a ‘Left government’ in Ireland with Sinn Fein. FANTASY FOOTBALL – THE IRISH LEFT AND FORMING A ‘LEFT GOVERNMENT’ Recently People before Profit reopened talks with Sinn Fein about building an alternative…
FIGHTING COVID19 – FROM A NURSE IN NEW YORK CITY
This article is about workers on the frontline of the Covid19 pandemic in the USA. It was written by Jillian Primiano, a New York City nurse. and was first posted by Left Voice. FROM ONE ESSENTIAL WORKER TO ANOTHER: DEMANDING SAFE WORKING CONDITIONS COULD SAVE MY LIFE The walk-outs, die-ins, and strikes…