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A pensions crisis is looming for British workers – a crisis brought into sharp focus in the first instance by the collapse of construction firm Carillion. Around 29,000 members of the Carillion pension scheme face an uncertain future, with cuts to their pension likely to follow. The company’s collapse followed the growth of its pension … [Read more…]

Even before the dust had had a chance to settle from the Carillion collapse, catastrophe struck another massive company grown fat on lavish government contracts. Following the admission on 31 January by the firm’s CEO Jonathan Lewis that its finances were shot to hell, requiring drastic measures to stave off collapse, Capita’s share value was … [Read more…]

88,000 postal workers are set to see their existing defined-benefit pension scheme torn up by Royal Mail. Defined-benefit schemes promise to give a guaranteed level of retirement income, in RM’s case linked to the career-average salary. Because such pensions are paid out regardless of fluctuations on the market, they are at least tacitly recognised as … [Read more…]

Since 2015, when the last peace deal, Minsk II, was agreed between the ultra-nationalist junta in Kiev and the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, co-signed by France, Germany and Russia, the junta has paid ever scanter lipservice to the agreement whilst in practice doing everything possible to avoid implementing key aspects of the treaty. … [Read more…]

On the night of the 6 September 2017, the writer and academic Dr Norman Finkelstein was arrested at his Brooklyn home on charges of harassment, relating to his (at the time) ongoing efforts to aid a former student and friend, Dr Rudolph Baldeo, against what he characterised as an attempt by two Long Island based … [Read more…]

On 2 February 1943 the battle of Stalingrad was universally declared to be over, following the German surrender in the city the previous day. This magnificent victory by the Soviet forces was celebrated by anti-fascists across the world and it heralded the gearing up of the Red Army to push the fascist invaders all the … [Read more…]

Hushed was the world And oh, dark agony that suspense shook upon us While hate came flooding o’er your wide savannas Plunging pestilence against you – All that stood to state: “Where men meet There meets one human race!”   Therefore did men from Moscow to the Arctic Rounding Vladivostok to the South where Kazbek … [Read more…]

In 2017 a presentation was made by Ella Rule to the Stalin Society on the life and times of Kim Philby, who spied for the Soviet Union. In preparing for this presentation she came across Anthony Cave Brown’s book Treason in the blood, which appeared to suggest that Kim’s father, St John Philby (Jack) too … [Read more…]

With great sadness we report the deaths of three prominent leaders of the Indian community in Britain over the last month. Comrades KARAM SINGH KIRTI, AVTAR SINGH SADIQ and HARBHAJAN SINGH DARDI were highly-regarded leaders of the Indian Workers’ Association (Great Britain). They devoted their entire lives to the fight against racism and imperialism, for … [Read more…]

By Jonathan Cook, Global Research, February 13, 2018, reproduced with thanks. It now emerges that the last four years of Julian Assange’s effective imprisonment in the Ecuadorean embassy in London have been entirely unnecessary. In fact, they depended on a legal charade.   Behind the scenes, Sweden wanted to drop the extradition case against Assange back in 2013. Why … [Read more…]