British Shop Workers Vote to Support Venezuela! In Blackpool over the May Day Bank holiday, the British shop workers’ union USDAW, representing some 330,000 workers, passed a resolution unanimously supporting the Venezuelan Revolution and affiliating to the Hands Off Venezuela Campaign.
British Perspectives 2006 “The British working class is entering a period when it requires the greatest belief in its mission and its strength. To gain this there is no need for any stimulants like religion or idealist morality. It is necessary and sufficient that the British proletariat understands the position of its country in relation to the position of the whole world, that it has become clear about the rottenness of the ruling classes and that it has thrown out of its way the careerists, quacks and those bourgeois sceptics who imagine themselves to be socialists only because they from time to time vomit in the atmosphere of rotting bourgeois society.” (Leon Trotsky, Writings on Britain, Volume Two, p.182)
Britain: "We have to show that Peugeot cannot walk over its workforce" The workers at the Peugeot plant in Ryton (near Coventry) risk losing their jobs and livelihood. Darrall Cozens reports on the latest situation after interviewing John Cummins, Deputy Convenor from Amicus, about the trade union plans to keep the plant open.
