Donald Trump’s inauguration has emboldened fascists in Britain, warns SABBY DHALU
A day to celebrate workers’ achievements and demands
ROGER SUTTON highlights the significance of May Day for working people and argues that here in Britain May 1 ought to be a bank holiday, as it is in many places around the world
NICK WRIGHT examines the British ruling class's complex relationship with fascism before, during and after the second world war
MARC VANDEPITTE looks at dangerous developments in a war that has killed millions, but attracts little attention in the West
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The new US administration’s policy decisions are already having seismic effects worldwide, argue ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
What we are seeing now in the policing of Gaza protests is a manifestation of an authoritarianism that the government intends to inflict on our country, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
MAY DAY this year comes in a time of growing struggle — domestically and internationally. The ever-growing number of industrial disputes has seen a growth of union membership and activity in many areas as workers seek to deal with the ever-increasing cost of living alongside the growing crisis in public services.
Government interference in those services with the backdrop of growing privatisation been disastrous as one failing Tory government has followed another. The massive support for different worker disputes shown across the country, with fellow trade unionists, trades councils and the public joining picket lines, has been marked.
It has raised the need for the ability to take solidarity action, particularly for the strong to support the weak. The need to remove the legal shackles on trade unions have been a focus for the trade union movement.
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ROGER SUTTON reflects on the mass action that freed imprisoned dockers on this day in 1972, which is to be commemorated later this year in an event drawing parallels with the struggles of workers today
Our unbroken tradition of marching from Clerkenwell Green on May 1 is a testament to the unity and resolve that is needed to fight the class struggle, writes ROGER SUTTON
Today is a day for emphasising our unity, not our divisions, writes ROGER SUTTON, organiser of the London May Day Organising Committee
Roger Sutton remembers a stevedore and a class fighter, jailed for picketing — then released after a mass working-class campaign
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