By Gwydion M. Williams A Terrible Year for Weather 2023 a Wonderful Year for China? Shame in the USA Oscar Wilde and the Dalai Lama Snippets A Rocket That Went Nowhere? Was Your Empire Really Necessary? Artificial Intelligence – Pathological Liars Healthy Drinking? A Terrible Year for Weather We’re not heading for Human Extinction. We … Continue reading Notes on the News
A shift to the left in Russia – Boris Litvinov (Part 2)
http://wpered.su/2023/03/21/v-rossii-budet-levyj-povorot-boris-litvinov/ Boris Litvinov, first secretary of the Donetsk regional branch of the KPRF, gave an interview to the "Antifascist" news agency. (https://antifashist.com/). This is the second part of the interview. - What is happening in the Zaporozhie and Kherson regions in terms of party building? Is there a party group in these regions, and if not, … Continue reading A shift to the left in Russia – Boris Litvinov (Part 2)
Adam Smith the Mythmaker
By Gwydion M. Williams Smith as Enemy of the New USA Wedderburn, Smith’s Overlooked Friend Pins and Watches Post-Leninism Smith’s False Hopes A Nation Not Ruled by Shopkeepers Back in the year 2000, I wrote a book called Adam Smith: Wealth Without Nations. Athol Books published it, and we launched it at the Labour Party conference and … Continue reading Adam Smith the Mythmaker
Solidarity to striking Junior Doctors
Reprinted with thanks from the Workers Party of Britain website by WP Trade Union Group This week so-called “Junior” Doctors are again taking industrial action across England for 96 hours to demand better pay and working conditions, following on from a 3 day strike just a month ago.Junior doctors are qualified medical doctors who are … Continue reading Solidarity to striking Junior Doctors
Exposed: dire Humza Yousaf and crooked SNP
This article is reprinted with thanks from the Workers Party of Britain website By Nikola B (Workers GB Writers Group) For Humza Yousaf, failure brings its own reward. He entered Bute House as the youngest, first Muslim, first minister of Scotland as well as the first ever Muslim leader in the western world. However he left … Continue reading Exposed: dire Humza Yousaf and crooked SNP
The Minimum Service Bill : ‘a ludicrous bill’
https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2023-04-26/debates/61E83113-0B2D-40D2-9CD1-ED34E7C7CC17/Strikes(MinimumServiceLevels)Bill 26 April 2023, Debate in the Lords on amendment 3. This amendment would prevent an employee being sacked for refusing to cross a picket line. This is in the event of an employee being issued with a work notice, forcing them to work during a strike. A Conservative argument in favour of the amendment: Lord Balfe … Continue reading The Minimum Service Bill : ‘a ludicrous bill’
Diane Abbott’s Letter to the Observer
By Catherine Dunlop Abbott in her letter was responding to an article in the Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/15/racism-in-britain-is-not-a-black-and-white-issue-it-is-far-more-complicated), by Tomiwa Owolade, a contributing writer at the New Statesman. This article commented on a report just published about racism in Britain, Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS). That report says that more whites than blacks say they have experienced racism. … Continue reading Diane Abbott’s Letter to the Observer
ASLEF REJECTS RISIBLE PAY OFFER AND SETS MORE STRIKE DATES
ASLEF REJECTS RISIBLE PAY OFFER AND SETS MORE STRIKE DATES https://aslef.org.uk/publications/aslef-rejects-risible-pay-offer-and-sets-more-strike-dates ASLEF, the train drivers’ union, has rejected a ‘risible’ pay offer from the 16 train companies with whom we are in dispute – our drivers not having had an increase in salary at these companies since 2019. ‘Our executive committee met this morning [Thursday] … Continue reading ASLEF REJECTS RISIBLE PAY OFFER AND SETS MORE STRIKE DATES
The Milk Industry
Following an article on the Workers Party of Britain outlining the EU Commission's attack on Dutch farmers, we reproduce articles from Labour Affairs dealing with the EU Milk Quotas. The Commission decided to put an end to them in 2008, to take effect by 2015. The UK was delighted: at last the UK milk industry … Continue reading The Milk Industry
Starmer Changes Labour’s Electoral Base
Starmer Changes Labour’s Constituency The National Executive Committee (NEC) passed a motion on28th March which barred Jeremy Corbyn, the previous leader of the Labour Party, from standing as a candidate in the constituency in which he had been MP for the last 40 years. It’s a remarkable motion because it is fundamentally false. Clause 5 of … Continue reading Starmer Changes Labour’s Electoral Base
Budgets and Wars—Editorial 2
British politics is in a strange state. Since winning the 2019 general election with a substantial overall majority of some 80 seats, the Conservative Party has been tearing itself apart. It has already disposed of two Prime Ministers, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. It is now being managed by the richest Prime Minister in history, Rishi Sunak. His main … Continue reading Budgets and Wars—Editorial 2
Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party.
Eamon Dyas The action by the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee, acting on Starmer’s instructions, to deny Jeremy Corbyn the right to represent Labour at the next general election stands in marked contrast to the way in which he has welcomed back into the fold the likes of Mike Gapes. In February 2019 Gapes resigned … Continue reading Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party.
NEC Motion re Corbyn
Starmer’s NEC Motion For completeness we give below the full text of Starmer’s NEC motion to block Corbyn being a Labour Party candidate and how the NEC voted on the motion: This meeting of the NEC notes: the Labour Party’s purpose is to organise and maintain in parliament and in the country a political Labour … Continue reading NEC Motion re Corbyn
Minimum Service Levels
Campaign For Trade Union Freedom Rally on the Minimum Services Level Bill Pete Whitelegg At the beginning of this year the government published its long promised anti trade union legislation, the “Minimum Service Levels Bill”. This bill was contained in the Tories 2019 election manifesto. Originally the bill was only applicable to the transport sector. … Continue reading Minimum Service Levels
ICC — US Double Standards
Message from the White House: "We believe in investigating war crimes - but not ours and not Israel's" The US State Department website says the following about the International Criminal Court (ICC): "We maintain our longstanding objection to the Court’s efforts to assert jurisdiction over personnel of non-States Parties such as the United States and Israel." In … Continue reading ICC — US Double Standards
The end of the EU ban on State subsidy
Eamon Dyas [Eamon Dyas comments on Lucinda Creighton’s article “Ireland is asleep at the wheel as the EU single market is being undone.” (Business Post, 17/12/22)] Lucinda Creighton refuses to acknowledge the biggest elephant in the room here - EU’s sanctions on Russia. The Green Agenda may have been the slow-burner on this and is … Continue reading The end of the EU ban on State subsidy
Labour and Housing — Part 12
The funding of social housing provision (cont.): from 1890 to the first Labour Government By Eamon Dyas The Local Government Act of 1888 established county councils and county borough councils in England and Wales. It came into effect in 1889 and with it the emergence of the London County Council. This 1888 Act was viewed … Continue reading Labour and Housing — Part 12
Labour Voters – the Lost and the Found
By Gwydion M. Williams The following article appeared in February 2020 Labour Affairs, and remains relevant. But some digressions and out-of-date comments have been removed. Corbyn is being blamed for “the worst result since 1935”. 1935 wasn’t that bad, if you think about political outcomes. If you don’t see Labour existing just to give nice jobs to ambitious … Continue reading Labour Voters – the Lost and the Found
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