Biden’s task in his speech at Ulster University was to avoid inflaming the crisis, while lightly pressuring the Democratic Unionist Party into ending its boycott and scolding the UK government for failing to resolve the situation.
At three extraordinary factory meetings on Monday, some 14,000 workers at Ford’s Cologne plants were told by the works council where jobs were being cut.
A nationwide strike at Deutsche Post was extended through Saturday evening.
The 2022 French presidential election, held on two rounds on Sunday April 10 and 24, is unfolding amid an international breakdown of the capitalist order.
The proposal would cut the subsidy for an individual student in the affected courses from £243 to £121.50.
Demonstrations were held in capitals including London, Paris, Berlin and Madrid.
A London transport worker for three decades, O’Sullivan was sacked for upholding workers’ rights to a safe workplace during the coronavirus pandemic.
No doubt, a position as gender advisor on SAGE would be a significant career advance for the successful applicant. It would change nothing for working class women—let alone the working class as a whole.
The selection of the former head of the secret service as a candidate shows the extent to which the ruling class in Germany is once again relying on fascist forces 75 years after the fall of Hitler’s Third Reich.
Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson has refused to meet with the Covid-19 Bereaved Families campaign.
The vote is not an endorsement of the line of the far right, but a devastating exposure of the political implications of Podemos’s “herd immunity” policy.
The action called by the Public and Commercial Services union is the only strike officially sanctioned by any trade union over Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic.
With cancer sufferers and patients with other critical ailments languishing in queues running up to months and years, suffering and death, especially among the working class and the poor, will swell the already shocking tally of the pandemic.
This is an unprecedented, dictatorial intervention by central government into an elected council.
The massive military build-up now underway across the European Union exposes official claims there is no money for a scientific fight against the virus.
Following its European counterparts, the Dutch government has implemented the first stage of its easing of social-distancing restrictions, starting on April 28.
Unite’s campaign seeks to harness working class opposition to fire and rehire behind the union’s nationalist pitch to big business and the state.
A spate of disputes in education have broken out, despite every effort by the unions to suppress opposition.
If such overt threats of a military coup are circulating, it is because preparations for a coup are being discussed, and made, at top layers of the state machine.
“There was a decision to let this spread and see how we go with it. The government should be blamed for social murder.”
