RAMZY BAROUD looks at how entire West Bank communities have been shattered, their social and physical fabric deliberately dismantled by Israel to enable its formal annexation
AT 3am on June 22 2017 I never gave it a thought that I’d be standing up in front of people talking about my life and what would happen over the next 700 days.
I never thought that I’d be visiting members of Parliament to discuss loopholes that allowed an entire maintenance workforce to be made redundant one day and reoffered their job back the next.
I never imagined I’d be invited to Geneva to talk about issues related to tax or sit in a senate inquiry listening to a man (who I essentially worked for) admitting the sixth-biggest company in the world has not paid any corporation tax in Australia for four years, despite making $33.1 billion.
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK



