NHS workers take part in a march from St Thomas' Hospital to Trafalgar Square, London, as members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Unite union continue their strike action in a dispute over pay, May 1, 2023
COMMUNISTS committed to work to build a militant shop stewards’ movement at their 57th Congress today, resolving that “the strength of the trade union movement can be linked directly, though not exclusively, to the collective power of workers on the shop floor.”
Merseyside delegate Nigel Flanagan warned that trade unions, “despite a summer of outstanding action and some successes, are still suffering from long-term trends of decline.
“Even during the strike wave, trade union membership declined by another 200,000 — 122,000 of them were women workers in the private sector,” he stressed.
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the start of Kunming’s Belt and Road media forum, where 200 journalists from 71 countries celebrated a new openness and optimism, forged by China’s enormous contribution to global development
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports on TUC Congress discussions on how to confront the far right and rebuild the left’s appeal to workers
