Mediated Resistance: Alternative Media, Imagination and Political Action in Britain
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AUSTRALIA $1.50 · CANADA $1.50 · F RANCE 1.00 EURO · NEW ZEALAND $1.50 · UK £.50 · U.S. $1.00 INSIDE Sankara’s revolutionary legacy discussed at NY forum — PAGE 6 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE VOL. 83/NO. 20 MAY 20, 2019 Latest fighting Uber, Lyft drivers strike Demand US shows need for across US for pay, dignity hands off recognition of Venezuela Israel, Palestine THBY SGAE LINSKY and Cuba! A new tenuous cease-fire agreement BY TERRY EVANS between the Israeli government and “The Socialist Workers Party urg- Gaza-based Hamas and Palestinian es working people and youth to join in speaking out against Washing Islamic Jihad does nothing to elimi- - nate the unending cycle of violence by ton’s threats against Venezuela and groups in the Gaza Strip committed Cuba,” said John Studer, a member to the destruction of Israel and Israel’s of the SWP Political Committee and editor of the Militant, capitalist rulers. The repeated mili - at a special tary battles there are a deadly obstacle Militant Labor Forum here May 4. It to uniting working people, whatever was organized as a call to action to mobilize opposition to the U.S. rul their religion or nationality, to ad- - ers’ intervention. vance their interests against the capi- talist governments and ruling classes Studer urged forum participants to on both sides of the border. initiate and build protests demanding At the heart of the repeated fighting an immediate and unconditional halt to the U.S. government’s violations is the refusal of Hamas, the reaction- Militant/Edwin Fruit ary Islamist group that runs the Gaza Uber, Lyft strikers rally in Seattle May 8. -
Nicolas Maduro Won the Presidential Election
Newsletter of the Hands Off Venezuela campaign www.handsoffvenezuela.org May 2013 Defend Venezuela’s democracy Nicolas Maduro won the presidential election - respect the democratic will of the people n April 14, the Bo- the day after, with the presence livarian candidate of opposition technicians and no Nicolás Maduro complaint was registered won the presiden- • on election night 54% of poll- Otial elections with 7,586,251 ing booths, chosen randomly, votes (50.61%) against the op- were publicly audited with the position candidate Henrique presence of opposition and Bo- Capriles who received 7,361,512 livarian observers. The voting votes (49.12%), with a turnout of results recorded by the voting 79.69%. machines were checked against The opposition refused to rec- the paper receipts in the boxes. ognise the results of the election No complaints were registered. and has launched a campaign of • the elections were observed violence. On the night of April by over 170 international observ- 15 several CDI health clinics ers from many countries includ- were attacked across the coun- ing India, Brazil, Great Britain, try, as well as alternative and Argentina, South Korea, Spain state media outlet buildings and and France. Among the observ- journalists, offices of the United ers were two former presidents Socialist Party of Venezuela, etc. (of Guatemala and the Domini- As a result of this politically mo- can Republic), judges, lawyers tivated violence 9 people were and high-ranking officials of killed, all of them in the Bolivar- national electoral councils. All ian camp. of them stated that the elections The noisy campaign of the had been free and fair and the opposition was combined with system transparent, reliable, The working masses defend the Bolivarian revolution pic: Prensa Presidencial a national and international well-run and thoroughly au- media campaign, international dited. -
TUC Congress Guide 2016
THE FRINGE THE MEETINGS ROOMS ARE SHOWN HERE SYNDICATES 3 and 4 (access via stairs or outside to separate lift) MEETING ROOMS 6 and 8 3 4 3rd floor, rear of building THE RESTAURANT (access via rear lifts or stairs) AIRS 3rd floor, front of building (access via front lifts or stairs) 86 om outside) AIRS STAGE WEST BAR LIFT (access fr 1st floor HALL East Bar Exhibition 1a/b 1c REAR OF BUILDING LIFTS AND ST MEETING ROOMS 1a/b, 1c and 1d ground floor, rear of building AIRS TO 1d FIRST FLOOR EXHIBITION MAIN ST Ground floor FRONT OF BUILDING LIFTS AND ST FRONT ENTRANCE TO BRIGHTON CENTRE SUNDAY EVENING minister of labour; Tim Roach, general all work to end occupational segregation. 18:30, or end of conference secretary, GMB; Mark Serwotka, Speakers: Maria Buck, FBU; Institute of Employment Rights (IER) & general secretary, PCS; Dave Fern Whelan, PFA Campaign for Trade Union Freedom (CTUF) Ward, general secretary, CWU Chair: Deborah Reay, ASLEF A MINISTRY OF LABOUR: WHAT CAN Chair: Carolyn Jones, IER/CTUF Venue: The Restaurant IT DELIVER FOR WORKING PEOPLE? Venue: The Old Ship Hotel, BN1 1NR Refreshments provided The IER and CTUF have been developing Refreshments provided ideas for a ministry of labour since 2016. 12:45 Trade unions have additional ideas on MONDAY LUNCHTIME Freedom for Öcalan what a ministry of labour should deliver 12:45 THE BATTLE FOR TURKEY’S and during a period of consultation ASLEF FUTURE – THE CRITICAL ROLE OF over the past 12 months, thoughts on IS IT STILL A MAN’S WORLD? TRADE UNIONS, CIVIL SOCIETY what a ministry of labour can achieve In 2019 are there still jobs for men and jobs AND THE KURDISH MOVEMENT have been developed and refined. -
Annual Report 2015
SERTUC annual report 2 01 5 President’s foreword About the region SERTUC, the Southern & Eastern Region of Committee. I have tried to chair Regional the TUC, is the largest of the TUC’s regions Council, and other meetings, in my own and covers three European parliamentary sensitive way, encouraging debate and constituencies: London, the South East, and seeking progressive consensus, welcoming East of England. Two million trades unionists constructive contributions, whilst vigorously live and work within the region. discouraging attempts to raise matters under The Regional Council is appointed annually Any Other Business, not because it delayed This is my last year as the President of by affiliates and county associations of trades impending moments of relaxation in the SERTUC. Tony Benn once said that he had councils and meets four times a year to pub, but because any sharp political operator five questions for anyone acting in a discuss both how to achieve policy would have worked their intervention into leadership role; “What power have you got? determined at the national Trades Union the main agenda somewhere. I hope that I Where did you get it from? In whose Congress and to make specific policies on was always available to talk to delegates face interests do you exercise it? To whom are regional issues. At its Annual General to face, or on the phone, and I certainly was you accountable? And how can we get rid of Meeting it elects officers and an Executive always pleased to talk to them as equals, on you? If you cannot get rid of the people who Committee that meets monthly. -
Ray O' Light Newsletter
RAY O’ LIGHT NEWSLETTER March-April 2019 No. 113 & May-June 2019 No. 114 DOUBLE ISSUE Publication of the Revolutionary Organization of Labor, USA Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist International March 1919 REFLECTIONS ON THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ON THE OCCASION OF THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS FOUNDING (1919-2019) by RAY LIGHT “Departing from us, Comrade Lenin enjoined us to I. remain faithful to the principles of the Communist FROM THE FORMATION OF THE COMINTERN International. We vow to you, comrade Lenin, that we AND THE VICTORY OF THE OCTOBER shall not spare our lives to strengthen and extend the SOCIALIST REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA union of the working people of the whole world—the TO THE COMINTERN’S 7TH CONGRESS Communist International!” — Joseph Stalin, (Stalin, Works, Vol.6, p. 52) One hundred years ago the first world conference of communist parties and social-democratic organizations “... the pressure of the capitalist states on our state is was held in the still newly liberated land of Soviet enormous, ... the people handling our foreign policy do Russia, in the midst of a Civil War and the imperialist not always succeed in resisting this pressure, the danger intervention of a dozen foreign powers. It began with of complications often gives rise to the temptation to take Lenin’s opening speech on March 2, 1919. In the the path of least resistance, the path of nationalism ... course of the next four days a proposal was put forth the path of least resistance and of nationalism in foreign and implemented to transform the conference into a policy is the path of the isolation and decay of the first constitutive congress of the Communist International. -
Us Hands Off Venezuela!
AUSTRALIA $1.50 · CANADA $1.50 · FRANCE 1.00 EURO · NEW ZEALAND $1.50 · UK £.50 · U.S. $1.00 INSIDE Kurdish union leader: Workers faced years of tyranny, war — PAGE 6 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE Vol. 83/no. 19 May 13, 2019 NY Workers US hands off Venezuela! Memorial Day: US hands off Cuba! No one needs Washington steps up its war threats, as coup attempt fails to die on the job BY BRIAN WIllIAMS AND JANET POST NEW YORK — “I’m going to fall!” 51-year-old Nelson Salinas yelled as he clung to a scaffold suspended seven sto- ries high against a building in midtown Manhattan April 8. He had been hit in the head by a falling stone pried loose from the top of the building while work was being done to restore it. Salinas was rescued but died in the hospital shortly afterwards. He had worked in construc- tion for 20 years. Salinas’ death and that of two other construction workers here that week, aren’t “accidents,” but the result of the bosses’ relentless drive for profits. Com- panies and contractors have increasing- Reuters/Alexandre Meneghini Hundreds of thousands of people march during May Day rally in Havana to protest U.S. threats. Banner says, “Unity, Commitment and Victory.” ly pushed unions out of more and more sites, pressuring workers to go harder BY SETH GALINSKY Party has issued a call to action, urging and called on army officials to over- and faster. This means rising deaths and In the aftermath of a failed U.S.- working people to organize and join in throw the government. -
U.S. Hands Off Venezuela!
"We are realists... we dream the impossible" - Che Fire This Time! CANADA MUST STOP DISCRIMINATING AGAINST INDIGENOUS CHILDREN Page 4 CHE GUEVARA'S LEGACY TODAY Page 24 Page 12 LA LUCHA CONTRA EL NEOLIBERALISMO EN CHILE "SONIC ATTACKS" IN CUBA: FACT OR FICTION?Page 10 U.S. HANDS OFF VENEZUELA! Page 8 STOP THE WAR ON YEMEN Page 18 & 22 Page 2 NO TMX PIPELINE! Page 6 Volume 13 Issue 12 • December 2019 • In English / En Español • Free • $3 at Bookstores www.firethistime.net On November 22, 2019, Stop the UN Yemen envoy Martin Griffiths told the Genocide in UN Security Council that “In the last two weeks, Yemen! the rate of that war has dramatically reduced: U.S. & Saudi there were reportedly Arabia almost 80% fewer airstrikes nation-wide Hands Off than in the two weeks prior.” While the bombing Yemen! and military intervention in Yemen might seem lower, the war on the people of Yemen is still very much in full force. According to the UN, 80% of the population in Yemen needs humanitarian assistance. The bombing destroyed schools, homes, hospitals, By Azza Rojbi water and sanitation systems, roads and against Yemen in March 2015. Throughout countless other vital parts of infrastructure these years the Saudi-led coalition justified its “The war destroyed our dreams and [our] in the country. Added to that, the U.S. and war by renaming its campaign; giving several Saudi-led coalition have been imposing a sea, future” this was how Yemeni mother Adeeyah pretexts for continuing it; and arrogantly described the war in her country in the recently land, and air blockade on Yemen, creating claiming to have the interest of the Yemeni extreme shortages of food, fuel, and medicine. -
Register of Interests of Members' Secretaries And
REGISTER OF INTERESTS OF MEMBERS’ SECRETARIES AND RESEARCH ASSISTANTS (As at 20 September 2016) INTRODUCTION Purpose and Form of the Register In accordance with Resolutions made by the House of Commons on 17 December 1985 and 28 June 1993, holders of photo-identity passes as Members’ secretaries or research assistants are in essence required to register: ‘Any occupation or employment for which you receive over £370 from the same source in the course of a calendar year, if that occupation or employment is in any way advantaged by the privileged access to Parliament afforded by your pass. Any gift (eg jewellery) or benefit (eg hospitality, services) that you receive, if the gift or benefit in any way relates to or arises from your work in Parliament and its value exceeds £370 in the course of a calendar year.’ In Section 1 of the Register entries are listed alphabetically according to the staff member’s surname. Section 2 contains exactly the same information but entries are instead listed according to the sponsoring Member’s name. Administration and Inspection of the Register The Register is compiled and maintained by the Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards. Anyone whose details are entered on the Register is required to notify that office of any change in their registrable interests within 28 days of such a change arising. An updated edition of the Register is published approximately every 6 weeks when the House is sitting. Changes to the rules governing the Register are determined by the Committee on Standards in the House of Commons, although where such changes are substantial they are put by the Committee to the House for approval before being implemented. -
Take the Fight to the Tories - for Socialist Solutions
Summer Update 2021 Take the fight to the Tories - For Socialist Solutions Alisdare Hickson CC BY NC Steve Eason CC BY NC SA Alisdare Hickson CC BY SA Inside: Jeremy Corbyn MP Richard Burgon MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP Holly Turner Rachel Garnham Read Labour Outlook at www.labouroutlook.org and @LabourOutlook Steve Eason CC BY NC SA Socialist solutions to the crisis Richard Burgon MP This crisis has not only shone a I am optimistic we can win the and taxes on the super-rich, then that’s spotlight on the huge inequalities in progressive change needed because the very least Labour should be arguing our society – it has deepened them. the public agree with us. Polls show for. people want a more inclusive and It’s been a good crisis for some. British Even the Tories have had to adopt the equal society out of this crisis. billionaires increased their wealth by language of ‘levelling up’ and ‘building £106bn during the pandemic. But it’s And I am optimistic because the back better’. Of course that’s empty been a disaster for the majority. Thatcherite ideas rammed down rhetoric. people’s throats for decades are on the Tens of thousands of people needlessly But the left can use that space to fight ropes. It wasn’t long ago that we were lost their lives. We’ve seen a growing for a better society - from a wealth told the state should play no role in the corporate takeover of government and tax on the super-rich, to a Green New economy. -
The FRINGE the Following Are the Fringe Meetings the TUC Had Details of by the Time the Guide Went to Press
ThE FRINGE The following are the fringe meetings the TUC had details of by the time the Guide went to press. The TUC’s own meetings are shown in red. To find the meeting rooms see the plans on page 5. 11 Sunday EVENING following the fringe. reps has grown stronger since the coalition 19.00–20.00 Speakers: John Hendy QC, IER and CTUF; government came to power. Funding for Keith Ewing, IER and CTUF; Sally Hunt, UCU; advice and casework services has been Institute of Employment Rights and Len McCluskey, Unite slashed. The EHRC has been weakened. Parts Campaign for Trade Union Freedom Chair: Carolyn Jones, IER of the Equality Act 2010 have been repealed. Employment rights and trade union Venue: Liverpool Media Academy, And fees of £1,200 have been introduced freedoms: a post-election agenda 85–89 Duke Street, L1 5AP for discrimination cases to be heard at We need strong and effective trade union Refreshments provided tribunal, resulting in an 80 per cent fall in sex voices at national, sectoral and enterprise Sponsored by Thompsons Solicitors and discrimination cases, a 60 per cent fall in race levels. Current attacks on collective supported by War on Want cases and a 46 per cent fall in disability cases. bargaining and facility time and systematic Equality reps can play a vital role in making weakening of employment rights, trade union 19.15 equality rights a reality for more workers – if freedoms and access to justice leave workers TUC they are properly supported. vulnerable in an increasingly unequal society. -
Labour Party Conference
Labour Party Conference Progressive Fringe Guide The progressive fringe guide from Class This guide has been compiled by the Centre for Labour and Social Studies to promote the best fringes at Labour Party Conference 2014. We have tried to include as many as possible and would like to thank all of those involved. We hope you find it useful! What is Class? The Centre for Labour and Social Studies is a growing thinktank established by the trade union movement to act as a centre for left debate and discussion. Class works with a broad coalition of academics to develop alternative policy ideas and ensure the political agenda is on the side of working people. We produce policy papers, pamphlets and run events across the country. Class has the support of a growing number of trade unions including: ASLEF, BFAWU, CWU, GFTU, GMB, FEU, MU, NUM, NUT, PCS, PFA, TSSA, UCATT, UCU and Unite the Union. Find out more Visit our stand 142 in the Third Sector Zone of the Conference Centre or find out more from our website and Twitter. www.classonline.org.uk @classthinktank Progressive fringe listings 20 Saturday 18:00 Campaign for Labour Party Democracy Conference Lift Off! CLPD Rally & Delegates Briefing Jury’s Inn, 56 Bridgwater St, Entry: £3 (Concessions £1) Featuring: Diane Abbott MP; Ann Black NEC; Annelise Dodds MEP; Diana Holland, Unite; Kelvin Hopkins MP; Conrad Landin, Young Labour; Tosh McDonald, ASLEF; Pete Willsman; plus special guest; Chair: Gaye Johnston, CLPD Chair. * * * 12:30 Trades Union Congress Can Labour Deliver radical rail reform? The Hall, the Mechanics Institute, M1 6DD Featuring: Chair: Paul Nowak, Assistant General Secretary TUC; 21 September Sunday Mary Creagh MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Transport; Mick Cash, Acting General Secretary RMT; Mick Whelan, General Secretary, ASLEF; Andi Fox, Exec. -
Two Worlds Collide Power, Plunder and Resistance in a Divided Planet
Two Worlds Collide power, plunder and resistance in a divided planet by Alan McCombes CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: THE ROAD TO GLENEAGLES .................................... 5 War, inequality and hypocrisy in the 21st century CHAPTER ONE: THE HIGH PRIESTS OF CAPITALISM ....................... 12 The gang of eight and the global sweatshop economy CHAPTER TWO: FOOTLOOSE AND FREE .......................................... 20 The rise of globalisation and transnational power today CHAPTER THREE: THE TRIANGLE OF GREED ................................. 27 The three shadowy institutions who write the rules CHAPTER FOUR: CAN THE MONSTER BE TAMED? .......................... 33 Can capitalism be reformed, or must it be overthrown? CHAPTER FIVE: LOCAL ACTION AND GLOBAL VISION .................... 42 From Caracas to Chiapas, from Havana to Edinburgh CHAPTER SIX: CLEAR DAY DAWNING ............................................. 51 Breaking the Scottish link in the chain of global capitalism SOURCES ........................................................................................... 61 5 Introduction THE ROAD TO GLENEAGLES NOT SINCE ELVIS Presley’s gyrating hips scandalised respectable society in the 1950s has a pop star provoked such panic. In an edi- torial which only stopped short of proclaiming Apocalypse Now, Scotland on Sunday on 6 June 2005 warned of “beleagured Scottish cities”, a “mushrooming threat”, a “crisis on British soil”. Some people might momentarily have jumped to the conclusion that Osama bin Laden was about to release a deadly cloud of anthrax over Arthur’s Seat. In fact, the evil villain who is terrorising newspaper editors of a nervous disposition is no turbanned terrorist nor mustachioed dictator, but ex-Boomtown Rat and hero of Live Aid, Bob Geldof. His appeal for a million people to march in Edinburgh has been portayed in some quarters as as the war cry of a megalomaniac tyrant, out to ransack our capital city with a horde of savages in tow.