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Crunch time is here for the labour movement
We need to flip the narrative from the defensive battles we have been forced to fight under the Tories to the real opportunities presented by a left-led Labour government, writes GAWAIN LITTLE

The next few months will prove crucial for the labour and trade union movement and for all working people. We are faced with two stark alternatives.

On the one hand, we have an unstable right-wing government, intent of enforcing decades of austerity onto working people. Our schools and our NHS have been opened up to private profit and, in or out of the EU, the vultures are circling. Our unions remain shackled by the most regressive anti-union laws in Europe.

On the other hand, we have the biggest opportunity for working people in a generation: the chance of a Labour government which will actually listen to the working class. A government which will end austerity and invest in our economy, which will bring our public services back into public ownership and control, which will abolish the unjust anti-union laws which tie one hand behind our back and replace them with pro-worker legislation, including the restoration of collective bargaining.

A general election, and a real shift away from the neoliberal consensus that has dominated British politics
will be won on the streets and in the workplaces

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