• Walmart destroys Mexico's cultural heritage

    Part of the ancient Teotihuacán site, pictured right, is now underneath a Walmart, after Walmart bribed local officials. Walmart destroys Mexico’s cultural heritage for profit.

     

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    Walmart is the biggest private sector employer in the world.  Whether they’re undermining wages or building stores on ancient archaeological sites, let’s keep an eye on them.

     

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    Justice for Aminul Islam

    Bangladeshi garment workers’ union leader Aminul Islam was tortured and murdered in April this year. Support the campaign to bring his killers to justice.

     

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    Bangladesh: Demand Justice!

    More than 1,000 workers died – and the lives of their families ripped apart - when a factory making clothes for Primark, Matalan and Mango collapsed. Demand that these UK high street retailers take responsibility for their supply chains.

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    Tell Walmart and Disney to compensate Tazreen fire victims

    The Tazreen Fashion fire in Bangladesh killed 112 workers in November last year. Some brands have compensated family members for their loss, but Walmart and Disney refuse.

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    Nestle Chairman says water isn’t a human right.

    Nestle Chairman Peter Brabeck says that water isn’t a human right, and that privatisation is the best way to ensure fair distribution. Tell him he’s wrong.

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    22 October 2012

    Hi Comrades, Since our launch on May Day we have tried to bring a trade union message utilising social media and online campaigning on a daily basis.   As we know, nothing can ever replace on the ground organising but social media and online campaigning can play a very important role in generating and growing [...]

    Web Conference with Michael Hudson – 24 August

    21 August 2012

      USi is delighted that we will be joined by Michael Hudson on Friday 24 August at 4PM (UK time) and 11AM (EST). Michael is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and [...]

    Warm Summer – a hotter Autumn in Greece

    14 August 2012

    BY Nagia Nikolaou Just a few days after the creation of the new Government coalition a strong police contingent intervened in the Hellenic Steel Industry after nine months of workers’ strike, on orders of the Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. Now, after the “strong negotiations” with Troika the “Greek troika” is ready to announce new measures at [...]

    What is Neoliberalism?

    30 April 2012

    BY Doug Nicholls Neoliberalism is a set of economic policies that have become widespread during the last 30 years or so bringing misery to people and the environment as well as war and economic collapse, terrorism and a new form of gullible individualism. Consumerism is so extensive that even electoral politics have become a matter [...]

    A Better Capitalism?

    30 April 2012

    BY Paul Thompson There’s been times when only the Left would talk about capitalism. Now everyone’s at it. The Financial Times has recently run a while series on Capitalism in Crisis. David Cameron and his Tory allies have railed against ‘crony capitalism’ and, of course, there was Ed Miliband’s attack on ‘predatory capitalism’. Inevitably the [...]

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