The Controlled Opposition of Mick Lynch – Class Consciousness Project
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🇬🇧🥼💰UK Doctors Strike for 26% Pay Increase and Hourly Wage Restoration 🇬🇧🥼💰

Demanding a 26 percent salary increase to offset the decline in purchasing power since 2008, over 75,000 resident doctors in England began a six-day strike on Wednesday.

Despite a 28-day work stoppage in 2023, doctors chose to prolong their protest following unsuccessful negotiations between the British Medical Association (BMA) and the UK government. In the summer of 2023, doctors rejected an 8.8 percent salary hike, insisting on the desired 26 percent increase.

BMA spokesperson Robert Laurenson highlighted that the growing waiting lists, reaching 7.6 million people over fifteen years, are not solely a pandemic consequence but also a result of mismanagement.

Laurenson emphasized the doctors' plea for a gradual increase in hourly salaries from £14 to £21, stating that they had already lost 26 percent of their earnings and were merely seeking restoration.

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Sir Ed Davey was the minister who refused to meet Postmasters when the Post Office was prosecuting dozens of them for alleged thieving when it was the broken accounting software that was to blame.

He must resign as leader of the LibDems.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/03/post-office-workers-wrongly-accused-of-stealing-still-awaiting-payouts

Why We Attack The Labour Party – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/04/18/why-we-attack-the-labour-party/

The largest mass strike since 1948 began in Germany

Farmers, train drivers, drivers, doctors, fishermen, teachers, catering workers and other industries will take part in the general strike. They oppose government plans to reduce or eliminate subsidies, which are about to be canceled due to financial problems.

As often happens, the authorities began to get out of the crisis situation at the expense of the working class: the hole in the budget will be closed by reducing social programs and benefits. The main demands of the workers are to maintain the social package, reduce the working week from 38 to 35 hours while maintaining wages, bonuses to compensate for inflation, and the lifting of the ban on general strikes.

Participants threaten large-scale road closures. The police, which are being put on high security, are preparing for unrest.

🛳🚫✊German Farmers Protest Agriculture Laws Made by EU🇩🇪🚜🌾

A collective of farmers, discontented with cost-cutting measures affecting Germany's agriculture, prevented the vice chancellor of the EU country from disembarking a ferry on Thursday.

Germany's economy and climate minister, Robert Habeck, encountered obstacles preventing him from disembarking the vessel. Authorities stated that farmers obstructed a pier in Schluettsiel along the North Sea coast, compelling Habeck to return to the small island of Hooge, where he was vacationing.

Last month, Chancellor Olaf Scholz faced substantial criticism from farmers following his administration's unpopular decision to reduce subsidies in the agricultural sector. Farmers organized a protest in Berlin during that time and have committed to staging additional demonstrations in the future.

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"Furthermore, to the same degree in which the division of labour increases, is the labour simplified. The special skill of the labourer becomes worthless. He becomes transformed into a simple monotonous force of production, with neither physical nor mental elasticity. His work becomes accessible to all; therefore competitors press upon him from all sides. Moreover, it must be remembered that the more simple, the more easily learned the work is, so much the less is its cost to production, the expense of its acquisition, and so much the lower must the wages sink – for, like the price of any other commodity, they are determined by the cost of production. Therefore, in the same manner in which labour becomes more unsatisfactory, more repulsive, do competition increase and wages decrease."

Karl Marx - Wage Labour and Capital

The Banking Question – Class Consciousness Project
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🇩🇪 A mass strike by farmers, lorry drivers and train drivers continues in Germany. — @rybar

The protesters are expressing their dissatisfaction with the budget plans of the "traffic light coalition" and are demanding that diesel subsidies and vehicle tax exemptions be maintained.

▪️ Passenger train drivers from the GDL union joined the protests on Wednesday: they are demanding a pay rise, a reduction in working hours from 38 to 35 hours a week and the full continuation of the railway development programme. At the moment the railways are running on a reduced timetable and 80% of intercity trains have been cancelled.

▪️ While the Western media write about the "collapse of the German economy", the German authorities make no attempt to resolve the situation. But they do not miss the opportunity to shift the responsibility for the escalation of the protests to their political opponents in the person of the Alternative for Germany party and to intimidate the citizens that "for the first time since 1945 a right-wing extremist could come to power".

Incidentally, a strike by cultural workers is taking place alongside the protests: they are demanding an end to the repression of those who do not support the Israeli side in the current conflict. More than 650 people are said to have joined the movement. And with the protests still three days away, it is not out of the question that the discontented will become more active on other issues - the largest rallies are expected in Berlin on 15 January.

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🇬🇧🇺🇦British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Arrived To Kiev🚊🚨

Today Sunak and President Zelensky plan to sign a British-Ukrainian agreement on security cooperation. It obliges the UK to provide Ukraine with intelligence, cybersecurity, medical and military training, as well as cooperation in the defense industry.

According to the Prime Minister, the United Kingdom will also transfer £2.5 billion of military assistance in 2024-2025, including large batch of UAVs.

“This will be the largest batch of reconnaissance, strike and sea drones that has ever been transferred to Ukraine by a foreign state,” he said.

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Dawn of the DINKs – Class Consciousness Project
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Football match at the Dynamo stadium in Minsk, Belarus, 1966 (photo by Alexander Mokletsov)

Once again members of the CPGB-ML have been arrested for selling literature and handing out leaflets in support of the Palestinian resistance.
The party has come into the eye of the British state and they are trying to bully them into silence.

Now is not the time to back down we all need to raise our fists and speak out against Imperialism!

Victory to the Palestinian resistance!

Here is footage of police yesterday, pathetically arresting British communists who fight for Palestinian liberation

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ARREST UPDATE:

The police spent several hours today ransacking the home of one of our arrested comrades. He lives with his parents, who were left to clean up the mess. They have been told their son MAY be released this evening.

The behaviour of police arresting under the Terrorism Act seems to be an order of magnitude more belligerent and aggressive than when they were arresting our members for 'hate crimes'.

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