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A dangerous country for any trade unionist
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko talks to Colombian trade unionist WITNEY CHAVEZ
Campaigners from across the continent will gather in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services, write MAGGIE SIMPSON and BOB ORAM of No Cold War Britain
National co-ordinator for General Strike 100, HENRY FOWLER, continues his nationwide tour of partner organisations by visiting the Modern Records Centre at Warwick University
GEOFF BOTTOMS recalls meeting Fidel Castro in the ’90s after joining a Pastors for Peace caravan to Cuba, and reflects on how international support is still vital to help the island withstand economic warfare
The Ivors Academy’s hike in entry fees could turn this respected peer-assessed event into an exclusive preserve for those wealthy enough to compete, warns BEN LUNN
Peter Murrell’s weakness for the allure of prestige goods is symptomatic of modern consumer culture, says MATT KERR
TUC CONGRESS last month heard an emergency motion from train drivers’ union Aslef on continuing violence against trade unionists in Colombia.
Moving it, general secretary Mick Whelan pointed out that 69 activists were killed in the first eight months of 2015; that an academic, Miguel Beltran, has been arrested again on vague “rebellion” charges he was cleared of four years ago after spending two years behind bars; and that leading trade unionist Huber Ballesteros has now been locked up for over two years without trial.
So you might think Witney Chavez, an executive member of Colombian trade union federation the Central Union of Workers (CUT), has bigger fish to fry than the Tory assault on our right to organise over here.
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