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EU corporate leaders worsening conditions for workers in the US South
GFTU leader DOUG NICHOLLS looks at European corporate attacks on unions and workers in America’s southern states
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ANSELM ELDERGILL examines our laws concerning the treatment of animals and their rights
THE Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) welcomes demonstrations across Iran, which have put pressure upon the theocratic dictatorship, but warns against intervention by the United States to force Iran in a particular direction
In a stark warning of things to come JOHN ELLISON invokes the ideological splitting of hairs that weakened any and all opposition to the unravelling WWI when 22 million of mostly Europeans lost their lives and 23 million were maimed
THE European Union’s corporate leaders havn’t just reserved their deregulating, anti-trade union, anti-workers’ rights agenda for their own member states on home turf.
They have been keen to extend this policy on the already fertile ground of the southern states of the US.
They’ve exploited some of the weakest labour laws and strongest pro-business environments in the world.
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