Solidarity 3/130
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Front page: Stop boosting Beijing! Free Tibet! Solidarity with Chinese workers! Back page: Pay revolt on 24 April. Centre pages: A new sort of financial crisis. Download as pdf.
Solidarity 3/130, 10 April 2008
Stop boosting Beijing!
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If China's Stalinist bureaucrats hoped the Olympic torch relay would draw attention away from their crackdown in Tibet, they must now be sorely disappointed. As the torch paraded through London on 6 April, its bearers were met by a succession of protesters, some of whom attempted to snatch and extinguish the flame.
Government attacks low-paid ... again
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One of Gordon Brown’s last acts as chancellor was to introduce a new “tax simplification” scheme.
Organise migrant workers
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A House of Lords Committee headed by former CBI president, Lord Vallance of Tummel, has attacked the government in a report "The Economic Impact of Migration".
The Labour Party is a stinking corpse!
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It is time for the trade union movement to face facts with New Labour.
150 at protest to defend Mehdi Kazemi
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Over 150 people turned out on Saturday 22nd for a protest against the deportation of Iranian gay 19-year-old Mehdi Kazemi.
Anti-immigration controls conference
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The second trade union and communities conference against immigration controls (London, 29 March) brought 150-200 activists together to organise a coordinated national campaign.
French teachers threaten action
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As British teachers are mobilising for a historic strike, their French counterparts are engaged in a bitter struggle of their own, in the face of a ferocious government attack and a scandalously timid union leadership.
Tube bosses’ attacks slowed but not stopped
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Unions have slowed London Underground’s drive to casualise its workforce -but by avoiding mistakes, they could have stopped it.
Obituary: Greg Tucker
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RMT members learned with great sadness of the untimely death on Sunday 6 April 2008 of Greg Tucker, secretary of RMT’s Waterloo branch since 1993 and of the union’s National Conference of Train Cr