Solidarity 161, 22 October 2009

Vote no to BT Openreach threats!

Members of the CWU post and telecom union in BT Openreach are being consulted again on a set of attendance pattern changes they have already rejected. A narrow no vote (56%) in a consultative ballot only last month rejected a deal on attendance patterns despite the hard sell from the CWU Executive, and intense lobbying on a one-to-one basis by BT managers. Despite this the Telecoms Executive has called another ballot on exactly the same changes, but with phased implementation. It's a case of keep voting until we get the right result. Openreach engineers are disgusted with the lack of...

No, the crisis isn't over

Is the economic crisis ending? If it is, does that mean that the threatened public service cuts won't come, or will be smaller? Probably not; and no. Almost a year ago we wrote in Solidarity: "The big nationalisations and government bail-outs of financial firms have moved the sharp end of the crisis somewhat, to point at governments rather than banks". Governments could, and chose to, bail out big banks (and manufacturing companies, like General Motors), and prevent further big collapses like that of Lehman Brothers in 2008. The question then was whether the crisis would move on to a string of...

Why the Worker-communist Party of Iraq will contest the January elections

Nadia Mahmoud of the Worker-communist Party of Iraq spoke to Solidarity. The Worker communist Party of Iraq has decided to take part in the elections due on 16 January 2010. This differs from our stand on the previous election on 2005 where the party adopted an ‘effective boycott’ policy towards the election. Why did we choose to take part in the election now? People believe that elections might bring in people who could make a change. Therefore we have to grasp this opportunity and introduce ourselves as an alternative that people can choose. All political parties are seizing this opportunity...

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