Unsung Hero: The Jack Jones Story http://www.tuc.org.uk/…/tuc-lese-film-screening-director-qa-unsung…  TUC London, East & South East (LESE) International Affairs Committee and Pensioners’ Network supported Film Screening and Audience Q&A: Unsung Hero: The Jack Jones Story Monday 2 July 2018, 7-9.30pm FREE ADMISSION (registration essential) Congress House, 23-28 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS Please Register: lese@tuc.org.uk / 020... Continue Reading →

Stop anti-union harassment and victimization @AB InBev Sonepat India! Management at global brewer AB InBev's plant in Sonepat, India is escalating its attacks on trade union rights at its plant in Sonepat, India. Since February, the union has been defending its rights with an ongoing non-stop protest at the factory gate and needs your support.... Continue Reading →

Low paid workers, pushed to the brink. Specialist services, cut back or closed. Bed numbers are down. Surgeries are cancelled, and patients left in limbo – or for dead. There is no sign of change from the Tories. Jeremy Hunt wears his NHS lapel pin almost as if to mock the nurses, doctors and patients... Continue Reading →

For those who have been following Brazil closely in recent years, the case against former President Lula da Silva is clear-cut. And no, it’s not about tackling corruption, it’s about subverting Brazilian democracy for the second time in two years, writes Patrick Foley (10/05/18) On January 25th, a travesty of justice occurred when Lula was sentenced... Continue Reading →

  https://www.democracynow.org/2018/5/1/headlines/scholar_and_activist_joel_kovel_dies_at_81_in_new_york_city And in New York City, antiwar activist, author and professor Joel Kovel has died at the age of 81. In the 1960s and 1970s, Kovel was a well-known psychiatrist who left the Albert Einstein Medical School out of his opposition to the corporate influence over medicine. He became a prolific writer and scholar,... Continue Reading →

--Please circulate-- (1) How Infrastructure is Shaping the World: A Critical Introduction to Infrastructure Mega-Corridors by Nicholas Hildyard and Xavier Sol Today, infrastructure is not just roads, railways and airports, but also encompasses gigantic "mega-corridors" that attempt to re-engineer whole landscapes and legal environments to speed up the circulation of capital. How can these developments... Continue Reading →

New Zealand bans all new offshore oil exploration as part of 'carbon-neutral future' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/12/new-zealand-bans-all-new-offshore-oil-exploration-as-part-of-carbon-neutral-future

https://fastfoodrights.wordpress.com/ https://www.bfawu.org Bakers Union campaign to get secure jobs and hours as well as a Living Wage for their members. McStrike: McDonald’s Workers call for McSolidarity on International Workers’ Day Striking McDonald’s workers are calling for McSolidarity on International Workers Day – May Day. McDonald’s workers from five striking stores have called for the public... Continue Reading →