Top #ToryMP defects to #Labour in fury at #NHS crisis | #Conservatives | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/27/top-tory-mp-defects-to-labour-in-fury-at-nhs-crisis
#labour
#Labour metro #mayors liken #IDPhoto rules to #US #VoterSuppression tactics | #LocalElections | The Guardian
They have to get rid of that law.
End Private Healthcare Deaths: Invest in the NHS
BBC Panorama has revealed NHS patients have died following operations at private hospitals.
Over the past few years, the government has sent NHS patients to get operations in private hospitals, funded by taxpayers. Labour backs this policy.
The vast majority of private hospitals do not have intensive care units, meaning that if patients develop complications there, their lives are in danger.
Dear Wes Streeting and Victoria Atkins, stop putting NHS patients at risk. Instead of outsourcing operations to private hospitals, invest in the NHS so that it can treat all patients.
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/end-private-healthcare-deaths-invest-nhs
#SaveOurNHS #Labour #Cronyism #LabourCronyism #OurNHS #deaths #privatisation #corruption #hospitals #ICU
Annual profits from forced labour amount to US$ 236 billion, #ILO report finds
The new #study on forced #labour in the private sector reveals a 37 per cent rise in illegal profits from forced labour since 2014.
Source: https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_920143/lang--en/index.htm
#slavery #capitalism #profit #problem #justice #humanRights #profit #politics #news
Wahlen in Großbritannien
Foul von rechts bringt Sunak in Not
Von Daniel Zylbersztajn-Lewandowski
Der Übertritt eines Tory-Abgeordneten zur Farage-Partei „Reform“ offenbart die Krise der britischen Konservativen. Zuvor hatte er sich mit Premier Sunak überworfen.
#taz #tageszeitung #Wahlen #Großbritannien #Großbritannien #Tories #Labour #Party #Rassismus #Parteispenden
The Panic Of the Ruling Class
The #Panic Of the #Ruling #Class #UK #George #Galloway #Gaza #genocide #Keir #Starmer
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"The cause of all of this political panic is of course the genocide in Gaza. It is essential to join the dots here. We live in a situation where the wealth gap in society between the rich and the poor is expanding at its fastest ever rate. Where for the first time in centuries, young adults can expect to have lower life expectations in terms of employment, education, health and housing than their parents. Where the nexus of control by the ultra-wealthy of both the political and media classes is tighter than ever."
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"Briefly, the chance of the kind of democratic triumph of the working people of which George Galloway dreams, became real with the popular uprising that led to Jeremy #Corbyn being placed as #Labour leader. Corbyn’s chances were destroyed by an entirely fake narrative of #anti-semitism. Since the Holocaust, anti-semitism has understandably been the most potent charge that can be levelled against anybody in politics. A deliberate and calculated campaign to apply the term to any criticism of Israel was ultimately successful in destroying Corbyn and his supporters as a short term threat.
So the demonisation of criticism of #Israel was not an incidental ploy of the ruling class. It was the most important tool, by which they managed to kill off the most potent threat to their political hegemony to arise in a major western country for decades."
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Nachwahl im Vereinigten Königreich
Gaza-Populist siegt
Von Daniel Zylbersztajn-Lewandowski
George Galloway gewinnt bei einer Nachwahl den Parlamentssitz von Rochdale. Danach vergleicht er sich mit Winston Churchill.
In a now-deleted video, leader of UK's #Labour Party, Keir #Starmer, admits that he spoke to Israel's President Issac #Herzog before ruining the #Gaza ceasefire vote.
This is an unbelievable but not unexpected revelation of the disgusting duplicity of Starmer and his loyalty to Israeli apartheid regime.
Video:
https://t.me/newsvideofa/1122
#UK #ceasefire #Politics #Inhumanity #UKPolitics #Israel #Gebocide
Machtwechsel in Großbritannien in Sicht: „Labour ist klar auf Siegeskurs“
1997 fuhr Labour in Großbritannien einen historischen Sieg ein. Der Politologe Patrick Diamond über Parallelen zwischen Keir Starmer und Tony Blair.#WahlenGroßbritannien #Großbritannien #LabourParty #Labour #KeirStarmer #TonyBlair #JeremyCorbyn #Interview #Europa #Politik
Machtwechsel in Großbritannien in Sicht: „Labour ist klar auf Siegeskurs“
"People do not forget how you treat them during birth," Cheyney said. "I've had people tell me about their birthing experience 40 years ago, and they still remember the nurse who snapped at them or a physician who made them feel disrespected. They also remember the person who said nothing but stroked their hand at the hardest part of labor, offering comfort."
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-cesarean-vaginal-childbirth-greatly-affected.html
#UK #UKpolitics
Disappointed with Channel 4's coverage of the change in #Labour's commitment to spending on #green spending. Labour are not in government, and holding them to account for a declared intention a few years ago should not be compared to actual government policies and their impact.
The #AI #supply chain:
"It makes visible the #connection between an #engineer training an #algorithm in the #UK, a miner extracting #tantalum in #Kazakhistan, an engineer in #Mexico working in a #data centre, a #worker in #Taiwan #manufacturing GPUs and a worker in #Kenya dismantling e-waste"
source: https://twitter.com/ana_valdi/status/1747200486392950785
#economy #technology #supplyChain #resources #globalization #internet #software #hardware #gpu #labour #map #news
#legalSlavery #ThereIsNoEthicalConsumptionUnderCapitalism
Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
ANGOLA, La. (AP) — A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison.
Unmarked trucks packed with prison-raised cattle roll out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where men are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work, for pennies an hour or sometimes nothing at all. After rumbling down a country road to an auction house, the cows are bought by a local rancher and then followed by The Associated Press another 600 miles to a Texas slaughterhouse that feeds into the supply chains of giants like McDonald’s, Walmart and Cargill.
Intricate, invisible webs, just like this one, link some of the world’s largest food companies and most popular brands to jobs performed by U.S. prisoners nationwide, according to a sweeping two-year AP investigation into prison labor that tied hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of agricultural products to goods sold on the open market.
They are among America’s most vulnerable laborers. If they refuse to work, some can jeopardize their chances of parole or face punishment like being sent to solitary confinement. They also are often excluded from protections guaranteed to almost all other full-time workers, even when they are seriously injured or killed on the job.
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#prison #slave #labor #UnitedStates #capitalism #labour #laborRights #AssociatedPress
Everything #politicians tell you about #immigration is wrong. This is how it actually works
source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/29/politicians-immigration-wrong-cheap-labour
The misleading assertion that #poverty causes #migration conceals the fact that #labour demand has been the main driver of growing immigration to western countries since the 1990s. More widespread #education, women’s #emancipation and #population ageing have led to labour shortages; these have fuelled a growing demand for #migrant workers in sectors such as #agriculture, #construction, #cleaning, #hospitality, #transport and food processing, as supplies of local #workers willing and able to do such jobs have increasingly run dry. Without such chronic labour shortages, most migrants wouldn’t have come.
One-Day Strike at Condé Nast
I see no mention of it at Ars Technica.
#labour #labor #labor-organizing #strike #union #unions #trade-unions #condé-nast #ars-technica
Why the British said no to Europe
By John #Pilger
#brexit #uk #eu #labour
The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by their presumed betters in the major parties, the leaders of the business and banking oligarchy and the media.
This was, in great part, a vote by those angered and demoralised by the sheer arrogance of the apologists for the "remain" campaign and the dismemberment of a socially just civil life in Britain. The last bastion of the historic reforms of 1945, the National Health Service, has been so subverted by Tory and Labour-supported privateers it is fighting for its life.
A forewarning came when the Treasurer, George Osborne, the embodiment of both Britain's ancient regime and the banking mafia in Europe, threatened to cut £30 billion from public services if people voted the wrong way; it was blackmail on a shocking scale.
Immigration was exploited in the campaign with consummate cynicism, not only by populist politicians from the lunar right, but by Labour politicians drawing on their own venerable tradition of promoting and nurturing racism, a symptom of corruption not at the bottom but at the top. The reason millions of refugees have fled the Middle East - irst Iraq, now Syria - are the invasions and imperial mayhem of Britain, the United States, France, the European Union and Nato. Before that, there was the wilful destruction of Yugoslavia. Before that, there was the theft of Palestine and the imposition of Israel.
The pith helmets may have long gone, but the blood has never dried. A nineteenth century contempt for countries and peoples, depending on their degree of colonial usefulness, remains a centrepiece of modern "globalisation", with its perverse socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor: its freedom for capital and denial of freedom to labour; its perfidious politicians and politicised civil servants.
All this has now come home to Europe, enriching the likes of Tony Blair and impoverishing and disempowering millions. On 23 June, the British said no more.
The most effective propagandists of the "European ideal" have not been the far right, but an insufferably patrician class for whom metropolitan London is the United Kingdom. Its leading members see themselves as liberal, enlightened, cultivated tribunes of the 21st century zeitgeist, even "cool". What they really are is a bourgeoisie with insatiable consumerist tastes and ancient instincts of their own superiority. In their house paper, the Guardian, they have gloated, day after day, at those who would even consider the EU profoundly undemocratic, a source of social injustice and a virulent extremism known as "neoliberalism".
The aim of this extremism is to install a permanent, capitalist theocracy that ensures a two-thirds society, with the majority divided and indebted, managed by a corporate class, and a permanent working poor. In Britain today, 63 per cent of poor children grow up in families where one member is working. For them, the trap has closed. More than 600,000 residents of Britain's second city, Greater Manchester, are, reports a study, "experiencing the effects of extreme poverty" and 1.6 million are slipping into penury.
Little of this social catastrophe is acknowledged in the bourgeois controlled media, notably the Oxbridge dominated BBC. During the referendum campaign, almost no insightful analysis was allowed to intrude upon the clichéd hysteria about "leaving Europe", as if Britain was about to be towed in hostile currents somewhere north of Iceland.
On the morning after the vote, a BBC radio reporter welcomed politicians to his studio as old chums. "Well," he said to "Lord" Peter Mandelson, the disgraced architect of Blairism, "why do these people want it so badly?" The "these people" are the majority of Britons.
The wealthy war criminal Tony Blair remains a hero of the Mandelson "European" class, though few will say so these days. The Guardian once described Blair as "mystical" and has been true to his "project" of rapacious war. The day after the vote, the columnist Martin Kettle offered a Brechtian solution to the misuse of democracy by the masses. "Now surely we can agree referendums are bad for Britain", said the headline over his full-page piece. The "we" was unexplained but understood - just as "these people" is understood. "The referendum has conferred less legitimacy on politics, not more," wrote Kettle. " ... the verdict on referendums should be a ruthless one. Never again."
The kind of ruthlessness Kettle longs for is found in Greece, a country now airbrushed. There, they had a referendum and the result was ignored. Like the Labour Party in Britain, the leaders of the Syriza government in Athens are the products of an affluent, highly privileged, educated middle class, groomed in the fakery and political treachery of post-modernism. The Greek people courageously used the referendum to demand their government sought "better terms" with a venal status quo in Brussels that was crushing the life out of their country. They were betrayed, as the British would have been betrayed.
On Friday, the Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, was asked by the BBC if he would pay tribute to the departed Cameron, his comrade in the "remain" campaign. Corbyn fulsomely praised Cameron's "dignity" and noted his backing for gay marriage and his apology to the Irish families of the dead of Bloody Sunday. He said nothing about Cameron's divisiveness, his brutal austerity policies, his lies about "protecting" the Health Service. Neither did he remind people of the war mongering of the Cameron government: the dispatch of British special forces to Libya and British bomb aimers to Saudi Arabia and, above all, the beckoning of world war three.
In the week of the referendum vote, no British politician and, to my knowledge, no journalist referred to Vladimir Putin's speech in St. Petersburg commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June, 1941. The Soviet victory - at a cost of 27 million Soviet lives and the majority of all German forces - won the Second World War.
Putin likened the current frenzied build up of Nato troops and war material on Russia's western borders to the Third Reich's Operation Barbarossa. Nato's exercises in Poland were the biggest since the Nazi invasion; Operation Anaconda had simulated an attack on Russia, presumably with nuclear weapons. On the eve of the referendum, the quisling secretary-general of Nato, Jens Stoltenberg, warned Britons they would be endangering "peace and security" if they voted to leave the EU. The millions who ignored him and Cameron, Osborne, Corbyn, Obama and the man who runs the Bank of England may, just may, have struck a blow for real peace and democracy in Europe.
https://johnpilger.com/articles/why-the-british-said-no-to-europe
Nahost-Debatte in Großbritannien
Meuterei auf dem Labourdampfer
Von Daniel Zylbersztajn-Lewandowski
Auch die britische Linke streitet über den Krieg in Nahost. In der Labourfraktion stimmen 58 Abgeordnete gegen den Antrag der eigenen Partei.
#taz #tageszeitung #Labour #Party #Keir #Starmer #SNP #Unterhaus
