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Five years ago the government privatised the Royal Mail delivery service, and ever since the vultures have been circling the remaining Crown post office counter services too. The recent announcement that another 74 post offices are to be franchised out to high street monopoly WH Smith, in addition to over 100 earlier franchises already run … [Read more…]

Staff at ASDA in Queslett, Great Barr, are fed up with the imposition of ‘scan and go’ machines, taking the place of the usual checkout tills. Where once there were 31 manned tills, there are now only 20, and workers fear that up to a dozen jobs may go by February next year. As well … [Read more…]

Reproduced from the Finsbury Communist of October 2018, with thanks. The delegates [to the annual Trades Union Congress conference held this year in Manchester] on September 12 waved Palestinian flags as they voted unanimously for Emergency Motion 4: Cuts to UNWRA and the Nation-State Law Mover: ASLEF General Secretary Mick Whelan Seconder: UNITE delegate Claire … [Read more…]

A Texas elementary school speech pathologist refused to sign a pro-Israel oath, now mandatory in many states — so she lost her job Extracts from an article by Glenn Greenwald dated December 17 2018 (Reproduced from The Intercept, with thanks) A children’s speech pathologist who has worked for the last nine years with developmentally disabled, … [Read more…]

The gruesome murder and dismemberment of the Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, in Istanbul’s Saudi Arabian consulate on 2 October 2018 has been seriously threatening to destroy the whole mechanism through which US imperialism maintains its influence in the Middle East, and even its ability to wage economic warfare on a world scale. Khashoggi was a … [Read more…]

The liberation forces encircling the jihadi-infested city of Idlib are showing supreme restraint in, for the moment, suspending the final push to free the city. As was the case with the liberation of Aleppo and Eastern Ghouta, maximum efforts are being made to minimise civilian casualties so far as this is possible under the conditions … [Read more…]

Jair Bolsonaro, the 63-year old right-wing reactionary and former army captain, has won the Brazilian presidential election, having secured in the final round 55.1 per cent of the votes. His opponent, Fernando Haddad of the Workers’ Party (PT) received 44.8 per cent (45 million voted for him). Bolsonaro gained notoriety for his absurd, nauseating and … [Read more…]

The government’s handling of Brexit continually threatens to engulf it, as indeed it does the opposition Labour Party. For some 30 years the Tories have squabbled over the European issue. Even with a March 2019 EU departure point on the horizon, the issue is eating up the main bourgeois electoral parties. The divisions within and … [Read more…]

Saturday 20 October saw hundreds of thousands march through London to demand a ‘people’s vote’ on the Brexit deal. The march was billed as “demanding a democratic vote on the Brexit deal”, but the reality is that this was a march against Brexit, attracting in the main people who had voted remain, and sponsored by … [Read more…]

With parliamentary and presidential elections looming in 2019, Ukraine is descending deeper into self-inflicted chaos whilst the Kiev junta continues to blame all its troubles on Russia. Shown on main-stream opinion polls as lagging way behind former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the presidential stakes, incumbent president Petro Poroshenko has reportedly resorted to paying for … [Read more…]