Category Archives: Social Justice

The EU should listen to Turkish demonstrators and engage

By Guest | Published: June 6, 2013

Since the demonstrations broke out in Turkey last week, an unprecedented number of articles have been published highlighting the deeper causes of people’s grievances.

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The greed of the executives and their cosiness to government enables high pay culture

By Guest | Published: June 5, 2013

So it is not the acquiescence of the general population that enables executive pay and levels of inequality to keep increasing. It is the greed of the executives themselves, and their cosiness with a government too weak to take them on.

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Trade unionists around the world should lend their voices to the resistance of the Turkish people

By Ruwan Subasinghe | Published: June 4, 2013

At noon today the 240,000 member strong Turkish Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (KESK) began a two day strike in response to “state terror implemented against mass protests across the country” in what may prove to be a significant development for the brave and burgeoning protest movement triggered by #occupygezi.

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Commonwealth progress but more reform is needed

By Guest | Published: May 22, 2013

While some progress is being made on LGBT rights in the Commonwealth, it is painfully slow. More reform is needed urgently. Nearly 80 per cent of the 54 Commonwealth countries still criminalise homosexuality, with penalties ranging up to life imprisonment for consenting same-sex behaviour between adults in private.

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Welfare reforms ‘Kafkaesque’ say Scottish doctors

By Ed Jacobs | Published: May 6, 2013

Doctors across Scotland have attacked the operation of the government’s welfare to work health assessments as “Kafkaesque”, with GP leaders warning that Scottish doctors are being “flooded with additional avoidable work”.

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Brand image won’t prevent labour abuses, but human rights will

By Guest | Published: April 29, 2013

Fundamental labour rights and protections should not be optional, applicable only to the rich but must be a central part of our labour markets, for compromises create cracks and cracks lead to catastrophe.

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Osborne shows how out of touch he is. Again

By Ed Jacobs | Published: April 4, 2013

In a sign of how out of touch he has become, George Osborne yesterday said the Welsh government’s opposition to the coalition’s welfare reforms was “unbelievable”.

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Union membership and the arc of inequality (graph)

By James Bloodworth | Published: March 29, 2013

A fascinating graph by Colin Gordon for Dissent magazine shows the relationship in the United States between union membership and inequality.

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Launch rally for Campaign for Trade Union Freedom

By Tony Burke | Published: March 18, 2013

This weekend sees the launch rally of the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom on March 23rd. Formed in December 2012 by a merger between Liasion Commmittee for the Defence Of Trade Union and the Campaign for the Repeal of the Anti Trade Union Laws, the rally takes place at Friends House, London at 1:30 pm.

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Hugo Chavez: what the media are saying

By Left Foot Forward | Published: March 6, 2013

Left Foot Forward looks at the media’s reaction to the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

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