A Tory split over onshore wind threatens to blow Sunak off course, says John Westmoreland The Conservatives who backed Rishi Sunak to lead the party did so in the desperate hope that he would put an end to the bickering and backbiting that did for Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. Some hope. Just four weeks after getting the keys to Downing Street he looks…
John Young, the founder of the Cryptome website, has asked the U.S. Justice Department to also indict him as he published un-redacted State Dept. files before WikiLeaks did. The founder of a U.S.-based website that earlier published the same un-redacted documents that WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange was later indicted for has invited the U.S. Department…
For working people, the winter holidays represent a time to celebrate and relax as the seasons change. For super-rich CEOs, this season represents a time to try to squeeze even more profits out of the working class by peddling products to us and demanding long hours and holiday shifts from many workers. Thereâs no shortage of urgent problems we have…
Above Photo: Leader of the ultranationalist party Otzma Yehudity ( Jewish Strength ) Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks to supporters in Jerusalem after hearing the results of the exit polls giving his party 14 seats in the parliament. (Eyal Warshavsky / Sipa via AP Images). The racist thug Itamar Ben-Gvir has not yet set foot in his new office as Minister of National…
Above Photo: (Sui Xiankai / Xinhua Via Getty Images) This Yearâs UN Climate Conference Offered Some Reason To Celebrate. But The Growing Clout Of The âCarbon Captureâ Industry Is Hindering Urgent Efforts To Clamp Down On Fossil Fuels. As the annual UN climate conference, COP27, came to a close in late November, the talks produced a lot of lofty…
Racial inequity is the result of racist and capitalist policies and canât be defeated by the self-interested Black political class. A statement by Pan-African Community Action D.C. Mayor Bowserâs âDraft Racial Equity Action Plan â (REAP) is a public relations document which reflects a continued commitment to the systemic foundations of racial…
Brazilâs left-wing President-elect Lula da Silva called for journalist Julian Assange to be freed from his âunjust imprisonmentâ and said he âsent my solidarity,â after meeting with his colleagues from WikiLeaks. Brazilâs left-wing President-elect Lula da Silva has called for journalist Julian Assange to be freed from his âunjust imprisonment.â…
Above Photo: Ten years ago when I started at Labor Notes, we didnât have so many strikes to coverâmuch less defiantly illegal strikes, like this one by teachers in Haverhill, Massachusetts. (Haverhill Education Association). If your union goes into negotiations right now and doesnât win its biggest raise ever, youâre leaving money on the table…
Above Photo: Mexican President AndrĂ©s Manuel LĂłpez Obrador walks among thousands of supporters to mark the four years of the 4T. MORENA Thousands gathered in Mexico City on Sunday to participate in the march called by President AMLO to commemorate his four years in office. Mexico City, Mexico â On Sunday, November 27, hundreds of thousands of Mexicans…
Above Photo: St. Lawrence seaway. (Kcida10 / Wikimedia Commons). Montreal, QuĂ©bec, Canada â In French, the word for food processing is the same as the word for sweeping social change: transformation. Alex Beaudin dreams of doing both. Beaudin, 25, is the coordinator of Le GrĂ©nier BorĂ©al, an agricultural co-op in Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan, a village…
Above photo: A Norfolk Southern freight train makes it way through Homestead, Pa. on April 27, 2022. Gene J. Puskar | AP.As the date for a possible national railroad strike nears, President Joe Biden stepped in this week to force a contract on the railroad workers.On Monday, November 28, the While House released this statement, which begins with:After…
A Fort Hood Scandal. âI am Vanessa Guillen.â Two years ago, city hall plaza in our hometown, Richmond, CA., was the scene of a protest vigil organized by Estefany Sanchez and her two sisters. Estefany is a Richmond resident and an Army veteran whose experience of sexual harassment in the military led her to identify strongly with the tragic case…
Statement by Labor Commission, FRSO | November 30, 2022 Read more articles in Labor On Monday, President Joe Biden publicly called on Congress to force union rail workers to accept the sub-par contract terms he helped craft. This is shameless union busting and pre-emptive strike breaking on behalf of the billionaire railroad bosses. The members of four…
With another cooling-off period nearing its expiration, Bidenâa self-proclaimed âproud pro-labor presidentââhas called on Congress to pass legislation to force the Presidential Emergency Boardâs tentative contract settlement on railroad workers, a move seconded by Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. This would make strike action by the railroad…
This story originally appeared in Protean on Nov. 28, 2022. It is shared here with permission. The true story of the Pruitt-Igoe Housing Complex may never be fully declassified. But what we do know is this: it involves the unlucky architect of the World Trade Center, a lost stockpile of a hundred thousand baby teeth, and mountains of recently disclosed…
Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin died on Wednesday, as a result of leukemia and multiple organ failure, Xinhua news agency announced. He was 96 years old .Jiang served as President from 1993 to 2003 with a policy focusing on the further liberalization of China's capitalist economy and the attraction of foreign investments. He is often credited by…
After a weekend of widespread protests across China, rs21 member Charlie Hore explains the movementâs significance and looks at what might come next. Protesters on Urumqi Road, Shanghai â picture by unknown Chinese photographer via Ming Pao Weekly, Hong Kong. Protest returned to the streets of Chinaâs cities last week on a scale not seen for several…
âThe historic Royal College of Nursingâs decision to strike on December 15 and 20 reflects the depth of the crisis in the NHSâ, Ruth Styles told the Communist Party political committee on Tuesday evening (November 29). Â Up to 100,000 nurses across England and Wales are taking action for the first time in the unionâs history, demanding higher…
On Saturday 26 November, a national demonstration was called in Rome as part of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. There were possibly around 10,000 on the demonstration, at most: far fewer than the 100,000 or so of previous years.The demonstration was called by the womenâs activist group âNon una di menoâ ââNot…
With the Federal Reserve pushing up interest rates, we appear headed for a new recession. Sadly, our unemployment insurance system remains broken: too few unemployed receive benefits and the benefits are far too low. As a result, the next recession, when it comes, will again bring unnecessary suffering to millions of workers and their families. It doesnât…
Anwar Ibrahim pictured in 2013. Following the recent general election that delivered a hung parliament, the monarch appointed Anwar Ibrahim as the next prime minister (Photo: Firdaus Latif/CC) The general election in Malaysia resulted in no coalition being able to form a government with a simple majority. For the first time in its history, Malaysia…
This year's UN Climate Change Conference was overshadowed by state repression and the obstruction of civil society mobilisations, as well as by the greenwashing and cover-up policies of over 600 participating lobbyists from the oil and gas industry. Immediately after COP27, a seminar co-organised by transform! europe on climate justice took place.Roland…
ESTABLISHMENT media have seized on protests over Covid lockdowns to rehearse their favourite anti-China narratives. Ever since the worldâs first Covid outbreak in Wuhan, the virus has been used as a stick to beat China. Donald Trump cynically portrayed the pandemic as a Chinese weaponâ the worst attack weâve ever had on our country ⊠worse than…
The time seems to be ripe for the women and the Kurds to write the last year of the Islamic Stateâs history through rewriting the year Zero of the Revolution. On July 14, 1789, when the revolutionary insurgents stormed the Bastille in France, Louis XVI asked the Duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt if this was a ârevolt,â and the latter replied…
On the evening of the 1 September, TV viewers in Argentina were horrified by a scene in which a weapon was pointed and triggered in the face of vice-president Cristina FernĂĄndez de Kirchner. Although it was later confirmed that the gun had been loaded and ready to fire, the bullet failed to detonate, which was considered a âmiracleâ. In a matter…
