Monthly Archives: March 2017

BMW workers in Britain have voted overwhelmingly to go on strike  over pensions, Unite has announced. Workers plan to strike over plans to close their final salary pension scheme. BMW workers could lose up to £160,000 in retirement income. The strike … Continue reading →

Teresa May in her Commons Speech has called for a “Comprehensive Agreement” in her speech on triggering article 50 to leave the EU. Others have indicated that there must be a deal. The most powerful monopolies centred in the big … Continue reading →

The government has recently made great efforts to strengthen the neo-colonial ties that exist in the so-called Commonwealth, the organisation of some fifty-two states around the world, most of which were former British colonies. Such plans, especially those involving African … Continue reading →

On March 8, only four days after one of the largest national demonstrations opposing the government’s whole direction for the NHS the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, concluded the last part of his spring budget speech on the NHS … Continue reading →

(CNN) Millions of workers around the world are at risk of losing their jobs to robots — but Americans should be particularly worried. Thirty-eight percent of jobs in the U.S. are at high risk of being replaced by robots and … Continue reading →

Unite in Action to Defend the Rights of All Statement of RCPB(ML), March 22, 2017 RCPB(ML) sends its condolences to the families and friends of those killed and injured today on and near Westminster Bridge. It pays tribute to the … Continue reading →

10 charts that show what’s gone wrong with social care Nick Triggle Health correspondent BBC Image copyrightISTOCK Ministers in England have said they are looking for a solution to the problems in social care. That has raised hope that next … Continue reading →

For Your Information War Crimes, Ukrainian Nationalists and the Canadian State – Peggy Morton – Defendants in the dock at the Nuremberg Trials, 1945-46. Lubomyr Luciuk, a professor at Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, writes in the Ottawa Citizen … Continue reading →