Category Archives: Social Justice

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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Are the South African police to blame for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp?

By Claudia Tomlinson | Published: March 6, 2013

The South African police, and the government have a lot of injustices and failures that can be laid at their door, but the actions of Oscar Pistorius on Valentine’s Day is not one of them.

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Why are South African police mimicking white supremacists?

By Claudia Tomlinson | Published: March 2, 2013

The sickening killing of 27 year old Mido Macia in South Africa this week brought to mind the white supremacist murders in the US which amounted to ‘lynchings’. This, together with the recent high profile rape and murder of Anene Booysen – and even the Oscar Pistorius case – point to a latent violence in the country that the government seems reluctant to tackle.

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Comment: Greens solidify their reputation as the only real alternative to Labour

By Salman Shaheen | Published: February 28, 2013

At the weekend, the Green Party took a formal step forward to solidify that position, as their spring conference in Nottingham voted with a majority of 71% to amend its constitution to commit to social justice and the “transformation of society for the benefit of the many not the few”. Their constitutional amendment should help strengthen their position as the only significant party to the left of Labour.

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