Le Canada est un pays impérialiste fondé depuis 250 ans sur l’oppression nationale des Québécois, des Autochtones, des Acadiens et des autres communautés francophones réparties à travers le pays.
Appeal to Reason is a bulletin by and for port workers and seafarers in Australia, members of the Maritime Union of Australia. Click here to download or read online.
The TUC has called another anti-cuts march for 20 October. Its slogan will be "A Future That Works".
http://www.tuc.org.uk/economy/tuc-21056-f0.cfm
On 25 April Unison general secretary Dave Prentis called on the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to organise a national demonstration in autumn 2012.
On 26 April the NUT Executive accepted recommendations from the General Secretary and Deputy General Secretary not to call any further industrial action on pensions, at least for now.
Left-wingers on the Exec were arguing for NUT to call a national strike on 10 May, along with PCS and sections of Unite, but the majority refused.
An industrial bulletin by and for education workers in the London borough of Tower Hamlets. Click here to download PDF.
An accumulation of small cuts means that the number of teachers in England's state schools - which had been rising for a decade - fell by 10,000 in the year to November 2011.
The BBC (25 April) reports that an official workforce survey showed 2% fewer teachers.
The number of teaching assistants is still rising. It has almost trebled since 2000, and there is now one teaching assistant for every two teachers.
The Netherlands' right-wing, neo-liberal, fiercely pro-cuts coalition government collapsed over the weekend 21-22 April, unable to agree on measures to reduce the country's budget deficit to the EU's 3% target in 2013.
This collapse should, and must on some level, strengthen the hand of the labour movement in arguing against cuts.
The Financial Times (25 April) reports, however: "Anyone expecting the Netherlands to turn towards the anti-austerity prescriptions of neo-Keynesian economists in London and New York has another think coming...
Citizen Protection minister Michalis Chrisochoidis, a member of Pasok (rough equivalent of the Labour Party), is leading an anti-refugee drive in the run-up to Greece’s parliamentary election on 6 May.
The last act of the Papademos coalition government was to pass legislation for the construction of 31 concentration camps (in former military facilities) for illegal immigrants, identified in the election campaign as threat number 1.
Tube Lines workers, who do maintenance on London Underground lines, are striking on 24-27 April.
Their demand for pensions equality has a more “offensive” character than other disputes on the Tube (or indeed in other industries or sectors).
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