Solidarity 270. 16 January 2013

Bob Carnegie campaign

Emma Kerin, the Communications Coordinator of Australia’s National Union of Workers (NUW), has contacted the Bob Carnegie Defence Campaign to offer NUW support. She wrote: “What has happened to Bob is particularly close to my heart after growing up through the years of Union Solidarity here in Melbourne.” Union Solidarity was a labour movement direct action campaign network that organised pickets and solidarity actions in support of workers’ struggles. Around 2,000 new leaflets promoting the campaign have been circulated to trade union activists in the UK. To order copies, please email...

Can the Lagarde list topple Samaras?

“The reason is simple”, says Greek journalist Costas Vaxevanis. “The Lagarde list is the whole economic policy system that governs the country. This corrupt elite speaks in the name of the Republic and Democracy with the same ease it cancels democracy. Media barons, ministers with offshore companies, bankers, prime ministers and friends representatives of ‘black economy’...” The list, of 2,000 Greeks with deposits totalling more than 1.5 billion euros in Swiss banks, and what has happened to it since 2010, is high on the political agenda in Greece. The list was originally the “Falciani list”...

"The union should be led from the workplace"

Peter Pinkney was elected national president of the Rail, Maritime, and Transport workers union (RMT) in December 2012. Workers’ Liberty members in RMT supported his election bid. Peter spoke to Solidarity in a personal capacity. I stood on a platform of wanting to minimise the distance between the leadership of the union and the members at a workplace and branch level. So my priority will be getting out to workplaces and talking to people. I want to base the initiatives I take as President on what members at a rank-and-file level want. I’ve begun doing some of that already, and the main...

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