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1. IRC waters down union agreements

   workplaces — to win better conditions, including a 36-hour work week and wage rises of 15% over the next ... because the wage rises were only 9% over three years, and [it did not include the] 36-hour work week. ... "freedom of association" for workers, but his laws make it difficult for a union to represent workers ...

2. SCOTLAND: Socialists launch European election campaign

   heart of the EU project is the principle of maximum freedom for capital. It is, in essence, a regional ... against any government that allows its budget deficit to rise above three per cent of its national GDP... ... tax revenues decline steeply and welfare spending rises sharply." The manifesto explains that an ...

3. Nasio: Keeping Marley's spirit alive

   my song came out and said: 'For the people: freedom. Let us go. We must be free!'. The song ... with reggae's rise were quelled by Reaganism (the US invaded Grenada in 1983) and Thatcherism, ... political reggae's popularity took a tumble. Its next rise must await a similar set of circumstances. ...

4. Women workers bear the brunt of SA attack

   laws, there will be freedom and flexibility for the employers but absolutely no fairness to workers. We ... this: "As we come marching, marching we bring the greater days. The rising of the women means the ... rising of the race. No more the drudge and idler — 10 that toil where one reposes. But a sharing of ...

5. Australia campaigns against greenhouse targets

   threatened by rises in sea levels as a result of global warming — argued strongly for the 20% cut. Based on ... quarter century, developing countries should take the lead. The fact that temperatures are rising as ... there must be freedom for countries to pursue their own priorities." Senator Hill has even ...

6. Ireland's immeasurable loss

   was a particular target of British artillery in the days following the rising. Yet after ... loyalist membership in Belfast. In the years following the rising, the relationship between the labour ... "In its march towards freedom, the working class of Ireland must cheer on the efforts of those women ...

7. People's Democratic Union launched in Jakarta

   political activities. It also calls for the restoration of freedom of speech and a free press. ... pillar of the Indonesian democratic movement was the rise of the workers movement in the 1990s. It would ... wage rises and the right to organise freely. This followed an earlier strike of 13,000 workers in Solo ...

8. The ugly logic of enterprise bargaining

   even faster, especially as the threat of the sack became more potent with rising unemployment. ... Basically, the ACTU agreed in Accords Mark VI and VII to employers having a greater freedom to allow workers ... enterprise bargaining action. In addition, rising unemployment gave employers greater confidence to use labor ...

9. After the Umbrella Movement — Hong Kong’s democratic movement faces new challenges

   political landscape. Most notably, it has contributed to a rise in localist politics and the emergence of ... threatened by the greater intervention by China and the decline in freedom of expression, but the responses ... related to Hong Kong’s rising social inequality. Nevertheless, the problem is that while the remnants of ...

10. Barcelona: Half-a-million march for tolerance and solidarity, amid contested responses to terror

    us more united than ever in freedom and democracy and from the diversity of our cultures and beliefs ... establishment media in Madrid. However, in the context of rising Spain-Catalonia tensions, its commentators even ...

11. IMF boss who pays no tax lectures Greek people

    International solidarity Economy Peter Boyle How outrageous is this story? Just days after International Monetary Fund boss Christine Lagarde lectured Greek people to pay their taxes or not expect any sympathy from the rest of the world, the British Guard ...

12. Tunisia: ‘People’s power’ ousts dictator

    had been rising against decades of military rule, corruption and poverty. International Monetary ... Fund-imposed economic policies had created “economic growth” (i.e. rising profits) for Western investors, and ... Tunisia. “Tunisia is a police state, with little freedom of expression or association, and serious human ...

13. Behind the US war on Venezuela

    book The Chavez Code. Combing through thousands of documents attained through the Freedom of ... elections" and the Press and Society Institute-Venezuela "to promote freedom of expression and ... approach to the Western Hemisphere more evident than in the unchecked rise of a self-absorbed, unstable ...

14. South African student protesters score win; race and class fuse in epic battle

    power in 1994. Tuition fees The latest desperation flashpoint was the announcement of double-digit rises ... the opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) supported their cause. EFF leaders sought to prevent ... “unconstructive” student protests), and a tokenistic $0.75 a month rise in grant payments to the poorest pensioners ...

15. Write on: letters to the editor

    rights are peculiarly Western and have no basis in Asian culture. Freedom, they assure us, is anathema to ... of us want freedom to determine their own lives, freedom to choose their political representatives ... and freedom from hunger, homelessness, squalor and exploitation. So far Australia has sided with the ...

16. How �鶹��ý backs women’s rights

    equal pay, equal work opportunities, reproductive rights, freedom from domestic violence, street ... of Fair Work Australia to award pay rises of between 23% and 45% to 150,000 mostly female workers in ... long-overdue pay rises. The decision will give wage rises to youth support, disability, refuge, family support ...

17. In brief

    institutions, were shut down by workers demanding a pay rise. While workers are demanding an 18% pay rise, the ... mines have been on strike since August 23, demanding a pay rise of 10% from their employer Debswana, ... schemes, a reduction of the workday to six hours, the generation of real employment, and freedom for ...

18. Literature, Art and The Russian Revolution

    �鶹��ý of the left-wing intelligentsia and the Russian Communist Party. The rise of these ideas coincided ... advances possible under socialism gives his defence of artistic freedom added power. A new artistic culture ... type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above this ridge new peaks will ...

19. 'Forward ever, backward never!' — 20th anniversary of the Grenadian Revolution

    and great-grandchildren. "Long live the people of Grenada. Long live freedom and democracy. Let ... and popular struggles against racism, for workers' rights and for home rule. In 1951, a rising ... the trade unions, the revolution gave rise to a flowering of democratic trade unions as they increased ...

20. Asia in the new world order

    Philippines. He was recently in Australia for a conference organised by Freedom From Hunger. He was interviewed ... of rising wages in Thailand and Indonesia and because Vietnam has the kind of political stability ... shortages, which have made wages rise. They are also having major problems with their agriculture and ...

21. Race, class and cuts — the roots of England's riots

    20% pay rises and million-pound bonuses out of taxpayers’ money has made riots more likely. ...

22. Sri Lanka: A nightmare for Tamils

    paramilitary forces in Vaakarai aligned with the ruling United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) threatened ...

23. Malalai Joya: Foreign troops must leave

    Hinman that “such terrorist acts will never stop my fight for freedom, democracy and justice”. Joya will ... rise up and become a determining force. What are the political alternatives? First, the foreign troops ... for freedom-loving Pakistanis. Zia-ul-Haq, one of Pakistan’s dictators, once said that Bangladesh’s ...

24. Ten of 2016’s best political albums

    whole album, they sang: “They keep you suspended in fear, until your freedoms disappear... That’s fine, ... efforts. “Europe Is Lost” offers a tantalising snippet of the lyrics: “The water level’s rising! The water ... level’s rising! The animals, the elephants, the polar bears are dying! Stop crying, start buying.” 8. ...

25. Berlin conference to remember Rosa Luxemburg draws thousands

    conference has become an annual gathering of revolutionaries, activists, academics, freedom fighters and ... the rise of the far-right across Europe and the Americas, the main message of the conference was: “To ...

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