e-News bulletin 15 April 2016

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E-NEWS BULLETIN
Friday 15 April 2016

Labour news you cannot afford to miss !
 
POLITICS
◘ SOUTH AFRICA
1. TRAINSPOTTER – Ronnie Kasrils: The Killing Game has already started
2. ANC top five told Zuma van Rooyen was a lightweight – report
3. Political arrogance will sink us all

◘ INTERNATIONAL
1. Greece sells controlling stake in Piraeus port
2. Mystery surrounds China-SA ICT pact
3. ‘Leaving behind whatever dies’
4. Ex-Senator: White House About to Declassify 9/11 Docs Incriminating Saudis

LABOUR
◘ SOUTH AFRICA
1. SA’s steel industry on brink of collapse
2. New organisation to take over Delft health worker services
3. 15-minute delays to Kulula and BA flights – #Comair strike update
4. Limusa to take Toyota, Numsa to CCMA
 
◘ INTERNATIONAL
1. Defeat Zionism in the Labour Party
2. Labour Willing to cut out Big Four firms including KPMG
3. Nuit debout protesters occupy French cities in revolutionary call for change
4. Countrywide General Strike on Sept 2, 2016

MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION
1. Dark Facebook: Facebook’s Secret Experiment in Emotional Manipulation Provides a Fresh Glimpse of its Radical Politics and Absolutist Ambitions
 
 
South Africa: TRAINSPOTTER – Ronnie Kasrils: The Killing Game has already started
“The ex-Minister of Intelligence Services does not have anything good to say about the current administration. He has joined the revived Phansi Zuma Phansi campaign, and has begun to speak out…”  read more…http://www.dai
 
South Africa: ANC top five told Zuma van Rooyen was a lightweight – report
“The ANC’s top five members reportedly warned President Jacob Zuma about keeping little-known MP Des van Rooyen in his post as head of Treasury back in December.”  read more…http://www.news
 
 
South Africa: Political arrogance will sink us all
“Recent and ongoing developments in South Africa provide us, day in and day out, with ample opportunities to witness the levels of political arrogance we’ve come to be bathed in by our leaders. And we’re all complicit in it.”  read more…http://www.fin
 
 
Athens: Greece sells controlling stake in Piraeus port
“Greece has sold a controlling stake in the country’s largest port to Cosco, the Chinese state shipping group, as Athens continues to reverse its previous opposition to major state-asset sales in order to comply with its international bailout terms.” read more…http://www.ft
 
 
China: Mystery surrounds China-SA ICT pact
“The three signatures on an ICT pact signed last year with China are blacked out, raising suspicions as to the reasons for the secrecy and the pact’s scope.”  read more…http://www.tec

 
 
Somalia: ‘Leaving behind whatever dies’
“The severe drought in Ethiopia has made headline news. But it has also scorched northern Somalia – a region far less able to cope with the impact.” read more…http://www.iri
 

 
 
USA: Ex-Senator: White House About to Declassify 9/11 Docs Incriminating Saudis
“Former US Senator Bob Graham (D-FL) took to the media on Sunday evening disclosing that 28 redacted pages from the 9/11 Report show that high-ranking members of the House of Saud provided financial assistance…”  read more…http://spu
 
South Africa: SA’s steel industry on brink of collapse
“The domestic steel industry is bleeding and stakeholders fear its death unless emergency protections are introduced soon.”  read more…http://mg

 
 
South Africa: New organisation to take over Delft health worker services
“Non-profit organisation Touching Nations, has signed an agreement with the Western Cape Department of Health to take over community health worker services in Delft.”  read more…http://www.gro
 
South Africa: 15-minute delays to Kulula and BA flights – #Comair strike update
“Comair says it is achieving a 95.6% on-time performance at British Airways and 98.3% at kulula.com since a work stoppage by employees demanding higher salaries.”  read more…http://www.tim
 
 
South Africa: Limusa to take Toyota, Numsa to CCMA
“Newly-formed trade union, the Liberated Metalworkers Union of South Africa (Limusa), on Tuesday said it was taking Toyota South Africa (Toyota SA) and the National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) to the CCMA following a dispute about worker representation at the Durban plant.”  read more…http://www.iol
 
Britain: Defeat Zionism in the Labour Party
“A number of Anti-Zionists have been expelled from the Labour party, mainly for their support for the Palestinian struggle. The Blairite, right wing elements in the Labour party are still in a position to wield effective power in the Party.”  read more…http://www.the

 
 
Britain: Labour Willing to cut out Big Four firms including KPMG
“Labour said yesterday that it would cut the Big Four accountants out of foreign aid projects if they and their clients keep stuffing money into tax havens at the expense of the world’s poorest.”  read more…http://www.mo
 
France: Nuit debout protesters occupy French cities in revolutionary call for change
“For more than a week, vast nocturnal gatherings have spread across France in a citizen-led movement that has rattled the government. The debating continued into the early hours of the morning, … “ read more…http://www.the
 
India: Countrywide General Strike on Sept 2, 2016
“The Joint National Convention of Central Trade Unions and Industrial Federations held in Mavalankar Hall in Delhi on  March 30, 2016 called upon the working class of the country to observe a country wide general strike on September 2, 2016 …”  read more…http://peo
 
USA: Dark Facebook: Facebook’s Secret Experiment in Emotional Manipulation Provides a Fresh Glimpse of its Radical Politics and Absolutist Ambitions
“Dark Facebook, like Dark Google, stands tall in the lineup of new absolutist information powers who imagine their users as passive sheep so hungry for their services …”  read more…http://www.sho