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Clegg Wrong On Employment Rights
At yesterday’s Manufacturing Summit at the Motor Heritage Centre in Gaydon, in a lacklustre speech (not surprising give the events of the week), the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg made a passing remark in his speech to UK manufacturers: “This … Continue reading
Len McCluskey is on your side – Get The Vote Out!
Len McCluskey has secured almost 1100 nominations in his campaign to be re-elected Unite General Secretary. The nominations come from every region of Unite and from every one of Unite’s sectors. I am pleased that many nominations came from Unite’s … Continue reading
Ecuador’s Lessons for Europe’s Corridors of Power
Government after government across Europe has been thrown out since the great recession began to drive back living standards. Whether on the centre-left, such as Gordon Brown and Zapatero, or on the right with Berlusconi and Sarkozy, political rejection has … Continue reading
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Lessons on Ecuador’s progressive alternatives to neo-liberal crisis
London’s Bolivar Hall was packed out on the evening of February 12th to learn about the progressive developments underway in Ecuador and offer solidarity against attempts to reverse this. Supported by Unite the Union, Tribune magazine and the organising committee … Continue reading
Len McCluskey: The Blairite zombies need to face up to New Labour’s failures
The stale prescriptions offered by the likes of Alan Johnson are the road to defeat and working class disappointment. Labour MP and former shadow chancellor Alan Johnson criticised Unite general secretary Len McCluskey in an interview with Progress magazine. Here … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Employment Rights, Labour Party, Media, Politics, Trade Unions, Unite The Union, Workers Uniting
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Letter to The New Statesman
“Dear New Statesman, Over the past decade very few countries in the world, if any, have held more elections and referenda than Venezuela. The overwhelming endorsements for Hugo Chavez and his coalition of supporters in these underlines how his government is … Continue reading
Bribing the private sector to invest isn’t working
By Michael Burke The British government has suggested it can resolve the investment strike and restore growth by offering guarantees to the private sector to undertake infrastructure investment. But the policy has already been branded a failure by the CBI … Continue reading
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US Politics: Republican’s Want To Rig Elections
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Coming To A Cinema Near You – ‘The Spirit Of ’45’
The ‘Spirit Of 45’ is Ken Loach’s documentary about how the spirit of unity buoyed the UK during the war years was carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society folowing the election of the 1945 Labour … Continue reading
Revitalising ‘Social Europe’ with Commissioner László Andor and Frances O’Grady, TUC
The starting gun has been fired and we now know that a future Conservative government will begin negotiations to ‘repatriate powers relating to social and employment laws’. Regardless of whether other EU member states will actually allow Britain to bring … Continue reading