From the 1917 Balfour Declaration to today’s F-35 sales, Britain’s historical responsibility has now evolved into support for the present-day outright genocide. But our solidarity movement is growing too, writes BEN JAMAL
CWU will not stand back and allow BT workers to be thrown on the scrapheap
Support our members working in BT who are key workers in your community as they fight to protect not only their jobs but the service they provide to you, urges CRAIG ANDERSON
DIANE ABBOTT MP warns Starmer’s newly declared war on foreigners and scroungers won’t fix housing or services — only class struggle against austerity can do that, and defeat Farage in the process
Ben Chacko talks to ALAN MARDGHUM of the Durham Miners Association about Reform UK‘s dangerous inroads into Durham’s long-standing Labour county council; why he cancelled his party membership; and the political class’s disconnect from working people
Speaking to a CND meeting in Cambridge this week, SIMON BRIGNELL traced how the alliance’s anti-communist machinery broke unions, diverted vital funds from public services, and turned workers into cannon fodder for profit
We’ll be developing a people’s manifesto for the 2026 local elections. We’ll network, learn, inspire and support each other and chart a future path for socialist politics, writes JAMIE DRISCOLL
MAT COWARD rises over such semantics to offer step by step, fool-proof cultivating tips
MOLLY QUELL reports on the sanctions placed on International Criminal Court officials by the Trump regime, making it increasingly difficult for the tribunal to conduct even basic tasks
SCOTTISH TUC 2020 convenes against the backdrop of the most difficult year many of us have ever seen, in Scotland and right across the UK.
However, it has been the working class who have stepped up and endured the most of these challenges — continuing to tend to the sick and vulnerable, to maintain our nation’s utilities and infrastructure, to provide food, to educate our young and to care for all.
Members of our union, the CWU, have proudly taken their place among the UK’s army of essential, key workers — our fantastic Royal Mail members keeping our people posted and our superb BT members keeping our country connected.
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