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Yet another ‘professional’ group of workers
Doctors are calling for a pay rise of up to 30% over the next five years, in a move that increases the chances of strike action.
Looting by Ukrainian troops
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/27/resistance-calamity-and-looting-in-a-kyiv-suburb
More than 1 million voters across 43 states have switched to the Republican Party over the last year, according to voter registration data analyzed by The Associated Press. The previously unreported number reflects a phenomenon that is playing out in virtually every region of the country
Barristers strike across England and Wales in a dispute over pay and conditions.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61946038
Barristers have been rallying outside a number of high-profile courts, including the Old Bailey in London and Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff and Bristol Crown Courts.
NATO strengthened
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61954516
“We will enhance our battlegroups in the eastern part of the Alliance up to brigade levels. We will transform the Nato response force and increase the number of our high readiness forces to well over 300,000.”
The price of lives lost to Covid for corporations
Did the Swedish approach succeed?
Refreshing report of anti-war protest in Spain
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/26/thousands-demonstrate-in-madrid-ahead-of-nato-summit
Thousands of anti-NATO demonstrators rallied in Madrid on Sunday before a summit of the Western military alliance in the Spanish capital this week.
Demonstrators called for US-led NATO to be dissolved and for military bases maintained by the United States in Spain to be closed. Banners with the words “No to NATO, No to War, For Peace” were held as they marched through the city.
The Spanish government banned another rally planned for Wednesday, the first day of the NATO summit, on security grounds.
“Tanks yes, but of beer with tapas,” sang demonstrators, who claimed an increase in defence spending in Europe urged by NATO was a threat to peace.
“I am fed up [with] this business of arms and killing people. The solution they propose is more arms and wars and we always pay for it. So no NATO, no [army] bases, let the Americans go and leave us alone without wars and weapons,” said Concha Hoyos, a retired Madrid resident.
Organisers claimed 5,000 people joined the march.
The Labour Party sabotages UNITE union.
David Lammy says Labour should categorically refuse to back demands from airline workers for a pay rise of about 10%.
General secretary, Sharon Graham, calls his comments a “new low” for Labour, which could not be relied upon by working people. Graham said that the workers were not asking for a 10% pay rise, but the restoration of money taken from them when pay was cut during the pandemic.
Free versions always come with a brand promotion. That’s the price you pay.
I did another and again, I didn’t take the time to watch the tutorials. Just blindly experimenting to see the result
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2022/06/world-socialism-video.html
Hypocrisy
The Supreme Court denies state rights to New York to legislate control over guns but decides state rights should be permitted to impose control over a woman’s body
As women struggle for IVF treatment, pets get access to the technology
Events in Ecuador has not gone unnoticed by our blog,
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2022/06/ecuador-erupts.html
[On a personal note, it was in Quito when I was doing the Inca Trail in the 70s that for the first and only time I was tear-gassed during protests against bus-fare rises and the only occasion that I was ever mugged while drunk in Guayaquil]
The anticipated SCOTUS ruling has come through.
Individual states can pass their own laws banning abortion or imposing various restrictions as they deem fit to enact.
Soon the USA will be a theocracy as the next goal is to end State – Religion separation
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898
While in Germany, the Nazi-era law forbidding doctors advertising abortion services is repealed
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/24/germany-scraps-nazi-era-abortion-law-that-criminalises-doctors
