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
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A crucial time for British workers
After 14 years of Tory rule, Labour are finally in power, with some welcome measures announced in this week’s King’s Speech — but, as ever, the Devil will be in the detail, warns STEVE PREDDY
Nurses from the campaign group Unite, on the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital, London, in their continuing dispute over pay. Picture date: Thursday June 27, 2024
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
The transformation of a stable secular state into a fractured ruin largely ruled by Western-backed fundamentalists exposes the hollow nature of ‘multipolarity’ and the absence of principled anti-imperialism today, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Facing economic turmoil, Jim Callaghan’s government rejected Tony Benn’s alternative economic strategy in favour of cuts that paved the way for Thatcherism — and the cuts-loving Labour of the present era, writes KEITH FLETT
The economic value of disability benefits far outweighs their cost, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
As tensions rise in the Middle East, the role of Iran in the region’s political balance becomes ever more significant. STEVE BISHOP assesses the current situation
ON BEHALF of the Unite South West and our Food Drink & Agricultural Section, we welcome everyone to the 2024 Tolpuddle Festival.
On February 24 1834, farmworker George Loveless left for work — it would be three years before he would be back with his wife and children again.
George, and five fellow workers — James Brine, James Hammett, James Loveless, John Standfield and Thomas Standfield — were arrested, charged with making an illegal oath and transported to Australia.
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