PRITI PATEL’S decision to approve the extradition of Julian Assange is an attack on press freedom which will have grave consequences for journalists everywhere.

As unions rally for the first national TUC demonstration in years, we must be clear that the government’s attacks on democracy are aimed at suppressing the labour movement — and that the state persecution of Assange is part of that attack on democracy.

Unions are mobilising because workers are being systematically robbed. As new research from Unite proves, the soaring inflation hitting working-class households in the pocket is directly linked to the swelling profits of giant corporations.