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We won’t be letting P&O off the hook
RMT general secretary MICK LYNCH explains why the union are calling on the travelling public to ‘Boycott P&O’ and to support its protests at ports across the country
Protesters stand outside the P&O building at the Port of Hull, East Yorkshire, after P&O Ferries suspended sailings and handed 800 seafarers immediate severance notices
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
THE sacking of 800 P&O workers in March shocked and appalled the entire trade union movement.
The callousness of the decision with no thought towards the livelihoods it would destroy or the inevitable damage it would wreak on a struggling industry was not something we’d seen in Britain for many years.
CEO Peter Hebblethwaite admitted under a grilling examination by exasperated MPs that he knew that the company was violating the law. He went on to justify this flagrant breach of employment law by saying no union would have accepted the company’s terms.
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