A
second lively picket against the coup in Honduras took place in London
on July 3rd. Members of the Latin American community, solidarity and
left wing activists gathered outside the embassy to demand the
reinstatement of president Zelaya
This Saturday July 4th trade unionists and labour movement activists
will be converging in Shrewsbury to march for justice for the
Shrewsbury 24. Speakers at the lunchtime rally outside the Shrewsbury
Council Offices will include Ricky Tomlinson, speakers from the PCS and
the campaign itself.
LATEST: We are pleased to announce that in September we will be relaunching
Socialist Appeal as a 16 page full-colour tabloid. More details will be
posted here as we get them so watch this space! However one matter
needs dealing with now – the question of adverts in the first issue of
the new format.
A
number of IWSN activists took part in the picket called initially by
the ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation), EI (Education
International), ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation), IUF
(International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant,
Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations), four global union
organisations representing over 170 million workers, is part of an
ongoing campaign that will eventually help Iranian workers win their
full trade union and human rights.
Over the last few decades – first under the Tories then under New
Labour – we have seen the official unemployment figures massaged and
fiddled time and time again in order to make them seem more
‘acceptable’ in the official reports and, of course, the newspapers. Is
this unique to the UK? Well no, let’s have a look at the
real rate of unemployment in the US.
Ireland: What with stalled talks over the national wage
agreement and the Pension Levy, an emergency budget worthy of Dracula and a
huge hole in the government’s finances also, there’s no surprise that the
government’s “expendenditure review body” has been christened as An Bord Snip.
On Monday 29th June the workers at Lindsey agreed to return to work
with heads held high. It was a magnificent result and all those involved
deserve a great round of applause.
The coup in Honduras highlights once
again that even mild reforms within the capitalist system cannot be
tolerated by the local oligarchies in Latin America and their
imperialist masters. But Venezuela teaches that if the masses mobilise
reaction can be stopped. Now is the time to mobilise the full force of
the Honduran workers and poor.
As workers and trade unionists continue to be attacked by the Colombian state, we look at the involvement of Britain in assisting in this murderous process.
Some on the left are questioning
whether the movement in Iran is a progressive one. They have been taken
in by propaganda that states that the movement is all an “imperialist
plot” to overthrow the Islamic regime. This ignores the very essence of
what is happening in Iran, which is the beginning of a revolution. What is required to move everything forward now is decisive action by the working class.
We share the revulsion of the hundreds of Belfast workers who
demonstrated on the Lisburn Road against these racist attacks in
Belgravia Avenue and Wellesley Avenue over the last week. We applaud
the efforts of those workers who gathered together and offered their
moral and practical support to the Roma people who were forced from
their homes by the fascist thugs using the name of Combat 18 – the
British fascist terror group.
REPORT: Striking
construction workers at Scottish Power’s Longannet Power Sation in Fife
decided at a mass meeting this morning to restart work to-day.