The Starmer project is going up in smoke – but if the left cannot swiftly build a viable alternative, the country faces the grim reality of a hard-right takeover, says ANDREW MURRAY
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POA general secretary STEVE GILLAN argues that while Labour’s 2025 Act was a step forward, a second wave of legislation is vital to restore the fundamental right to strike and end the exploitation of prison officers
Mehmet Turkmen, president of Birtek-Sen, has been cleared of criminal charges after speaking out against the high rate of workplace injuries and deaths in Gaziantep’s textile and carpet industry. OZLEM TEMENA reports
Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
Over 30 years since apartheid was abolished, nasty anti-migrant rhetoric sweeps the corporate media. The Commnunist Party is ready to fight back, says ROGER McKENZIE
FRED BAYER says the cuts to the congress cycle could be disastrous for the Scottish trade union movement
It was announced this week that the families of soldiers killed in the illegal Iraq war are to bring legal action against the Chilcot Inquiry if it fails to produce its findings by the end of the year.
It may be a controversial opinion but this column’s sympathies do not on primarily focus on the men and women in uniform who died, except that the loss of any human life through manufactured conflict is abhorrent.
Likewise it has long been perplexed and frustrated at the fact that when any member of the armed forces dies, they are automatically “a hero.”
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