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BFAWU: what our members want from the politicians
After surveying our members on issues from the NHS to Gaza, we are launching our Bakers’ Dozen manifesto in the House of Commons, laying out exactly what our demands are in the run-up to the election, writes SARAH WOOLLEY
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The unnecessarily violent police intervention at a Quaker place of worship is a PR disaster and will only serve to deepen the chasm between them and the public. SYMON HILL reports
ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads
Due to the actions of this government, the challenges facing those with disabilities, such as spinal cord injuries, are nigh on insurmountable, argus RUTH HUNT
General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
AS BRITAIN prepares for a general election the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) has produced a manifesto for progressive change based on feedback from our members who took part in a wide-ranging survey.
These are the policies our members would like to see embraced by political parties in their manifestos.
The forthcoming election comes against a growing sense of national decline and the relentless dismantling of public services, the welfare state and the wider social fabric that has been hard won through the decades of campaigns and struggles fought by the labour and trade union movement.
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