David Nicholson spoke to BETH WINTER about her bid to become a Senedd member as an independent running on a community grassroots campaign
UNELECTED EU economics commissioner Pierre Moscovici said Brussels is keeping a close eye on Macron’s spending programme which the French president hastily revised in order to quell the gilets jaunes (yellow jackets) protests.
The yellow jackets have spawned imitation protests in several EU states and upset the calculations of a European elite that now faces a new set of problems in their eternal quest to secure the consent, passive or otherwise, to the rule of the rich.
This is not just a French crisis, it is a crisis of management for the European Union.
DENNIS BROE gives an update on the last week of anti-austerity protests against the Macron regime, which has seen the supposedly more right-leaning Gilets Jaunes join with the unions and the left
The desperate French president keeps running up the same political cul-de-sac. DENNIS BROE offers an explanation
RMT’s former president ALEX GORDON explains why his union supports defence diversification and a just transition for workers in regions dependent on military contracts, and calls on readers to join CND’s demo against nuclear-armed submarines on June 7



