Hundreds protested against the US-Israel attacks on Iran in Parliament Square on Saturday, fearing a wider conflagration and horrified by the targeting of young schoolchildren, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Amazon Coventry: A near-miss that shook a corporate giant
Despite falling short of union recognition, workers’ courage and community solidarity have set a powerful precedent for organising in hostile environments, argues PHIL STREET
Amazon staff members on a GMB union picket line outside the online retailer's site in Coventry, as they take part in a strike in their long-running dispute over pay, March 19, 2024
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With this attack on Iran, Trump and Netanyahu are taking a reckless leap toward escalation. The region is balancing on the brink of a major war that could undermine the global economy and nuclear security, says MARC VANDEPITTE
Liverpool Trades Council has unveiled a ‘People’s Budget’ to fight £56m cuts and council tax rises. DEAN YOUNG reports
As Washington and Tel Aviv escalate their assault on Iran, the rhetoric of ‘great power’ politics masks a faltering empire resorting to familiar regime-change tactics, says JOHN McINALLY
Labour’s by-election defeat tells a story Scotland has known since 2008. A party that assumes loyalty while offering little more than managed decline will eventually discover that voters always have somewhere else to turn, says MATT KERR
SO NOW we know the workers at Amazon Coventry “fulfilment centre” have not achieved union recognition: 49.5 per cent voted for recognition — only 29 votes short.
The reaction has been a cross between exhilaration at an enormous sense of achievement, along with disappointment tinged by frustration about being so close. A reaction spread among workers, union officials and members of the Amazon Workers Supporters Group.
This dispute has not been strictly a company matter, it has engaged the wider community and the attention of the world.
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