Notes on the News By Gwydion M. Williams Israel Against Zionism? A War of Populations? Snippets Benedict Arnold Not a Traitor? Property Only With Privilege Climate Change Costs An end to Feed-the Rich? Poor People’s Burden Democratic Secession – Either Admirable or Forbidden Kiev Facing Defeat? China Purges Israel Against Zionism? Israel and its supporters … Continue reading Newsnotes
Martin Seale Keir Starmer has a primary objective – that Labour forms the next government. For that to be achieved he believes that he will have to convince voters who have never voted Labour before to switch their vote to Labour in the 2024 general election. Anything that in any way endangers this happening will be … Continue reading Starmer’s Moment of Weakness Approaches
The Labour Party wholeheartedly supports the war on Russia in Ukraine and sanctions against the import of cheap energy from Russia. UK support for sanctions is the main driver of domestic inflation in Britain as energy is an input into all products and services. Labour is not committed to any significant revenue raising measures by … Continue reading What You Should Know about Labour’s Economic Policy.
By Gwydion M. Williams · Britain Blighted by Upper London · Upper London Fears the Chinese Example · The Mistrustful USA · Snippets · Russia and China · Why Russia Rallies Round Putin · Worse Weather Britain Blighted by Upper London Well-meaning liberals like William Keegan are baffled that British politicians stay locked into policies that have caused vast suffering. Right-wing ideas … Continue reading Note on the News
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
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)
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
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
A shift to the left in Russia - Boris Litvinov 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/) - Boris Alekseevich, our previous interview was published on 11 February last year, in which you said that sooner or later Russia will … Continue reading An Interview with the Leader of the Donbass CP
Public Sector Wage Increases and Inflation British society as a whole is poorer because of the war it is waging against Russia. The sanctions that it has imposed on Russia have resulted in dramatically higher energy prices. Britain must give up a much larger share of its income to consume the same amount of energy. How is … Continue reading Public Sector Wage Increases and Inflation—Editorial
Speech to Trade Union Rally, Guildhall, 21st February 2023, Derry, Northern Ireland Mark Langhammer The rally was organised by the NI Teachers Council made up of unions as follows: NASUWT, INTO, UTU and NEU (my union). One NITC affiliate, the NAHT (the Principals union) was not on strike. The meeting was hosted by the Derry Trades … Continue reading Speech to Derry Meeting
Notes on the News By Gwydion M. Williams Brexit Failures Wearing Out Russia China ‘bites the bullet’ for Covid-19 Snippets Australia Day a Bad Memory Normal for China Cities Fit for Humans? Hindu Racism The Internet as Electronic Slum Killer Railways in the USA Brexit Failures “What would genuine plan for levelling up the north … Continue reading Notes on the News
Cancellation of No2Nato event —25 February 2023 — Conway Hall A Conference organised by No3Nato/Workers Party of Britain has been cancelled by Conway Hall, the Home of Free Speech, a month before it was due to take place on 25th February 2023. Previously St Pancras Church had also succumbed to pressure and cancelled the same proposed meeting. At … Continue reading Conway Hall Cancels
Can British trade unions defend their members’ standard of living without taking a position on the war in Ukraine? The standard of living of the British working class has fallen because NATO is engaged in a war against Russia using Ukraine as its proxy army. Do British trade unions support this NATO war against Russia? If so, should … Continue reading On Strikes and Wars — Editorial 2
Eamon Dyas By the end of July 2022, the U.K. government had estimated that 104,000 Ukrainian refugees had arrived in the UK in the previous 5 months. [See: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/100000-ukrainians-welcomed-to-safety-in-the-uk %5D By the 24th of August 2022 data compiled by the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford showed that over 115,200 Ukrainian refugees were officially living in … Continue reading Ukrainian Refugees and ‘small boat’ Asylum seekers
Trade Union anti-war conference Saturday 21st January 2023 With Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan and RMT president Alex Gordon TRADE unionists gathered at central London’s Hamilton House today for a conference on strengthening voices for peace in the labour movement. The World at War — a Trade Union Issue has been called by the Stop the … Continue reading Stop the War in Ukraine—Peace Talks Now
From a briefing by NATO spokesman Jamie Shea. Brussels, May 25, 1999:Question : If you say the [Yugoslav] army has a lot of generators, why are you depriving the country of 70% not only of electricity but also of water supply, because, according to you, [NATO] only strikes military installations.Answer : Unfortunately, command and control systems also depend on … Continue reading NATO Serbia and Russia Ukraine
Labour on Ukraine in Parliament Parliament Notes Shadow Minister for the Armed Forces, Luke Pollard, replying to a statement on Ukraine from Ben Wallace in Parliament 20 October 2022. This is just a sample, to show that Labour and Conservative speak with one voice on Ukraine. On that particular day, both congratulate themselves on the British ability … Continue reading Labour on Ukraine
