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Brazil Solidarity Initiative Statement : Bolsonaro & The Destruction Of The Amazon
We condemn Bolsonaro’s destructive plans for the Amazon, and the huge increase in illegal logging and mining since his inauguration. At the time of the rise of the far-right in Brazil, Bolsonaro’s close links to Brazil’s huge agricultural lobby … Continue reading
Brexit, Productivity And Competitiveness
By Professor David Bailey, Professor of Business Economics at Birmingham Business School at University of Birmingham, Visiting Professor at Centre for Brexit Studies and Senior Fellow at UK in a Changing Europe. Re published from original blog on July 29th … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Economics, Unite The Union
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Long Read: Defeating Boris Johnson Means Not Underestimating Him
By Simon Fletcher and republished with permission Simon Fletcher is a left wing political strategist and campaigner who has held senior positions working for socialist politicians including the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone and organising Jeremy Corbyn’s successful leadership election. He has fought against Boris … Continue reading
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This Is What Democracy Looks Like Event
The Electoral Reform Society and Politics for the Many are launching a major conference on the 31st August in Manchester to inspire the next generation of trade union campaigners for a fuller democracy in the UK, 200 years on from the Peterloo … Continue reading
Tommy Campbell: The trade unionist who stood up to be counted
Scotland regional union Tommy Campbell who is retiring from Unite as a regional officer speaks to the Morning Star’s Conrad Landin about a life of political and trade union struggle “CAN you imagine what it would have been like offshore … Continue reading
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Brexit: The WTO option would devastate jobs and tear up our rights
By Rosa Crawford First published by the TUC, May 16th Trading with the EU only on the WTO’s terms would have serious repercussions for the economy, public services and the Good Friday Agreement. Brexiteers like to promote the idea that the … Continue reading
John Mitchell – Former Sogat and GPMU National Officer
by Ann Field 11th April 2019 It is a great privilege to make this tribute to John, it has been drawn up with respect, with sadness and love by several of his old comrades as well as myself. The London GPMU … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Labour Party, Trade Unions, Unite The Union
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Keep Trump’s Hands Off Latin America
VSC E-UPDATE, MARCH 2019. ► Standing up to Trump and May’s interventions in – and hypocrisy on – Latin America ► 1. Help us get to 4,000 signatories our petition against Trump’s ‘regime change’ agenda. We are within touching distance … Continue reading
Liam Fox’s desperate dash for trade deals is in tatters
It wasn’t supposed to be like this was is it? International Trade Secretary Dr. Liam Fox, currently second in the incompetency stakes behind transport secretary Chris Grayling (but just in front of Gavin Williamson) once told the UK that getting … Continue reading
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