Israel and the US talk as if they’ve won a victory, but the reality is that world opinion has turned decisively against the Israeli regime, says RAMZY BAROUD
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Are ‘the unions back’ as the TUC claims?
NIGEL FLANAGAN argues that despite the massive spike in strikes, workers must fight the long-term decline of the unions by building a ‘rank-and-file’ movement like that of the 1960s
SOLOMON HUGHES finds one-time Cameron-centrist EU fans now promote vicious anti-migrant rhetoric in their bid to get attention for their ailing party
From terrifying the children of immigrants to pepper-spraying frogs, the US under Trump is rapidly descending into mayhem, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
Farage and other Reform-ers keep pointing to Dubai’s immigration policy – but there migrants make up most of the population and do all the work without any rights, muses SOLOMON HUGHES
Modi has rolled out the carpet for the Taliban in New Delhi — and we shouldn’t be surprised. They have more in common than you might think, argues Bhabani Shankar Nayak
HUGH LANNING says there is no path to peace without dismantling Israel’s control over Palestinian land, lives and resources
TODAY, hundreds of trade union delegates are gathering to look at the challenges and opportunities facing the movement on the back of the huge upsurge of strike action and industrial militancy since 2022. With 2.3 million strike days in 2022, the highest since the 1984-85 miners’ strike, and numerous national ballot successes, it seems that the unions are back.
Every night, the TV news has been covering strikes. All measures of public opinion show great support for strikers — on the railways and in the post service, not just nurses and doctors — and trade union general secretaries routinely embarrass bosses in televised debates about the cost-of-living crisis.
The activists who are attending this meeting are the people who have mobilised the yes votes and organised the pickets. Union members have stepped up and delivered yes votes and massive picket numbers.
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