The Labour leadership’s narrow definition of ‘working people’ leads to distorted and unjust Budget calculations, where the unearned income of the super-wealthy doesn’t factor in at all, argues JON TRICKETT MP
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Attacks on British unions are reaching new lows
As global attacks on unions intensify, the ITUC has launched a campaign recognising the threats we now face from employers and states — we must fight for any incoming Labour administration to stop the rot, writes BARRY CAMFIELD
Protesters during the Protect The Right To Strike march in Leeds, protesting against the Government's controversial plans for a new law on minimum service levels during strikes, February 1, 2023
Brazilian workers are calling for internationalist brigades to defend Venezuela from US attack, reports WT WHITNEY JR
KEITH FLETT recalls ‘the most advanced political programme to appear on the left until the time of the Bolsheviks’
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY ask how an 80-tonne whale that lives 200 years is so resistant to cancer
Sixty years of blockade have not made Cuba collapse, but they have devastated it. While Washington stands isolated at the United Nations, the Cuban people are paying the price, writes KATRIEN DEMUYNCK
As Armistice Day approaches, with the far right hoping to use it to promote their own form of ‘patriotism,’ NICK WRIGHT considers the nature of conflicts in the 20th and 21st centuries and the different ways they should be remembered
THE Campaign For Trade Union Freedom is to be congratulated for its role in defending our trade unions promoting trade union freedom and showing just how anti-union Britain has become through a combination of continuing Tory attacks since Thatcher allied with Labour’s virtual abandonment of the unions as vehicles for mass worker engagement and political campaigning.
This includes supporting the ending of trade union legal protection in the fight to defend the interests of workers.
Unions of course were protected throughout much of the 20th century as long as any dispute was held to be “in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute.”
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