Left-wing president shows what can happen with political will to do what’s right for ordinary people New Brazilian president Lula da Silva is reversing the cuts to Brazil’s health programme imposed by right-wing former president Jair Bolsonaro. Da Silva, who won the presidential election at the end of October despite extensive right-wing attempts to rig […]
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Hypocrite former MP condemned by postal workers union Right-wing former Labour MP Chuka Umunna has been slammed by the postal workers’ union for advising privatisers on their potential bid to take over Royal Mail – after originally condemning the privatisation of the iconic UK institution. Umunna is reportedly advising Czech firm Vesa Equity on its […]
Omar Mofeed wins victory against right-wing rag Palestinian Labour activist Omar Mofeed has forced the right-wing Jewish Chronicle to delete an article defaming him and his late father, more than a year after the rag published its smears. The Chronicle had claimed that Mr Mofeed’s father was a Hamas member and had served as the […]
Damning indictment of parts of union movement Incoming TUC general secretary Paul Nowak has appalled many of the movement’s activists by giving Keir Starmer a free pass not to increase public spending or revoke the UK’s repressive anti-trade union laws if Labour gets into power. Mr Nowak said that Labour can’t ‘turn on the spending […]
‘It wasn’t up for very long’ sums up union’s response to branches complaining about anti-Irish and anti-Scot post on social media Unite knocked back the complaints of a number of the union’s branches about a racist post by a close ally of general secretary Sharon Graham earlier this year – despite agreeing that the comment […]
“They offer nothing and destroy everything”. Dangers for Sierra Leone’s people are growing – but the drivers of the situation will not be unfamiliar to UK readers Skwawkbox has received the article below, written by a Sierra Leonean journalist whose name is withheld because of the risk of reprisals. For me the year 2022 has […]
Here’s just some of what Skwawkbox revealed that would otherwise have remained hidden. If you’d like to help the site keep doing what it does, see how at the end 2022 has been a bleak year for anyone who wants to see genuine change for the better in the UK, with a succession of utterly […]
Vice-president of Royal College of Emergency Medicine Ian Higgingson doesn’t expect to be trampled in the rush of politicians coming to experience appalling situation they’ve created Ian Higginson, Vice-President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, has challenged politicians to come and experience for themselves the horrors faced by NHS staff and patients, in an […]
Deleted paragraphs drastically change impression created by notorious 2019 programme ‘Is Labour antisemitic?’ An admission by the BBC that it radically edited an interview in its notorious 2019 Panorama programme that presented Labour as antisemitic has been discovered tucked away in a corner of the broadcaster’s website. ‘Is Labour antisemitic’ was broadcast just months before […]
No response from union to questions about claim Unite general secretary Sharon Graham has published a tweet in which she claimed credit for an increase in strike pay that predated her taking up the role by several months. Ms Graham claimed that she ‘upped the daily strike rates to £70 when I became general secretary: […]