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COPS campaign

ICYMI: The government has announced an inquiry into the Battle of Orgreave, when striking miners were attacked by police in 1984.

Congratulations to our friends at the Orgreave Truth & Justice Campaign who've campaigned so long & hard to get the truth established.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgelp

Dozens, possibly hundreds, of men run across a large patch of grass. Police officers, some of them on horses, can be seen in the background.
BBC NewsBattle of Orgreave national inquiry confirmed by Yvette CooperPolice violently clashed with striking miners at Orgreave in South Yorkshire on 18 June 1984.
#publicinquiry#police#policebrutality
Emeritus Prof Christopher May

A couple of years ago I wrote a piece for @NWBylines about the problems of seafarer abandonment

see: northwestbylines.co.uk/busines

And the problem continues as this report from The Observer reveals....

Seafarers are being abused with impunity by ship owners, and if you think the case at the centre of the Observer's piece is isolated; think again, this is major ongoing maritime problem!

#workers #shipping

observer.co.uk/news/internatio

North West Bylines | Powerful Citizen Journalism · Is seafarer abandonment an isolated problem?Seafarer abandonment, the plight of workers and the necessity of labour market regulation
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Mx Verda

industriall-union.org/organizi and apps.eurofound.europa.eu/platf and

equaltimes.org/youtubers-of-th and wired.com/story/youtube-union/ and

cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof and vox.com/the-goods/2019/7/30/20 and

youtubersunion.org/ and vice.com/en/article/the-youtub

IndustriALL · Organizing YouTube - IG Metall negotiates better rightsWhat happens when a grassroots, international creators’ movement and a traditional trade union join forces?
#union#unionize#youtube
Dr Alexandrina Vanke

Great news! ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ will be released in paperback in January 2026 🎉 This means that the book will soon be available at a more affordable price and I’m glad it will reach more readers. In the new blogpost, I respond to some of the critical reflections from reviewers. Read Part 1 here 👉🏽 alexandrinavanke.com/2025/07/2

@bookstodon
@sociology
@anthropology
@geography

This is photo with the hardback copies of 'The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia' by Alexandrina Vanke
Alexandrina Vanke · Paperback release incoming: what critics think about my book and why it matters for the class debate – Part 1I got a wonderful news from Manchester University Press about The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia. It will be out in paperback in January 2026. This means that the book will be availabl…
#workers#inequality#poverty
Nathaniel Gregory

“At the outset, we estimated that Long-term #CarbonDioxide Removal could cost $950 billion a year to capture an amount of #carbon equivalent to 25% of the world’s 2024 #emissions (9.5 gigatons), assuming $100 per captured ton of carbon”

nature.com/articles/s44168-025

NatureThe social costs of solar radiation management - npj Climate ActionIn this essay, we argue that the all-things-considered “price” of Solar Radiation Management (SRM) is much higher than its modest technical costs would indicate. First, we estimate that Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) will generate between $0 and $809 billion annually in side-effect harms, while the number is likely to be considerably higher for Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB). Second, SRM would depend on unprecedented international cooperation and, therefore, risk global instability. Third, politicians may hesitate to support SRM since they may be held politically accountable for everyday “bad” weather as well as extreme weather events. Fourth, SRM poses “termination risks.” Finally, we observe that when the holistic, “true” cost of SRM is fully accounted for, the comparison between SRM and what we term “large-scale” Carbon Dioxide Removal becomes complex.
#GreenSocialist#GreenParty#EcoSocialism
Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Much discussion of the UK's skills 'problem' focusses on cuts to education; specifically the budgetary crisis increasingly engulfing the Further Educations sector, but...

the private sector are hardly blameless, as the FT points out:

'Training budgets continue to be cut... with a 10.2% real-terms decline in employer spending from £59bn in 2022 to £53bn in 2024. Since 2011, investment per employee has fallen 29.5% in real terms'.

A hire-in-rather-than-train logic continues!

#workers#skills
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katzenberger

Amazing announcements by Mr #Trump:

»"Many of our largest #tech #companies have reaped the blessings of American freedom while building their #factories in #China, hiring #workers in #India and slashing profits in #Ireland […] Under President Trump, those days are over."«

So, if I understand this correctly, the #US will get:

  • Wages like in India.
  • Environmental standards like in China.
  • Large tech business #taxation like in Ireland.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/te

The Times of IndiaDonald Trump to Silicon Valley: Your …. has left millions of Americans feeling distrustful and betrayed - The Times of IndiaPresident Trump rebuked American tech giants for prioritizing overseas factories and foreign workers, asserting that his administration would prioriti
#USpol
Nathaniel Gregory

The #InternationalCourtofJustice has ruled that states must protect the planet & #climate under international law. We can immediately start with a #GreenNewDeal!

apnews.com/article/un-court-op

An activist holds a fan that reads "make polluters pay" as they demonstrate outside the International Court of Justice ahead of an advisory opinion on what legal obligations nations have to address climate change and which consequences they may face if they don't, on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in The Hague, Netherlands. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
AP News · UN's top court delivers landmark decision on tackling climate changeThe United Nations’ top court in a landmark advisory opinion says countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change, and nations harmed by its effects could be entitled to reparations. Advocates immediately cheered the International Court of Justice opinion on nations’ obligations to tackle climate change and the consequences they may face if they don’t. Notably, the court said a “clean, healthy and sustainable environment” is a human right. That paves the way for other legal actions, including states returning to the ICJ to hold each other to account as well as domestic lawsuits.
#GreenSocialist#GreenParty#EcoSocialist
Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Ten years ago the mandatory age for educational participation was raised to 18 years old.... it now seems that this shift has had minimal impact on actual participation in education among young people.

Like so many other things the crisis in local Govt. budgets has limited their ability to provide/support initiates & work to raise the participation rate... leaving the wasted potential among some groups of the young untapped & their working lives constrained.

#workers

ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/202

FFT Education Datalab · Did raising the participation age lead to increased post-16 participation? - FFT Education DatalabTo mark ten years since the participation age was raised in England, we evaluate its impact
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