ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
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From Bakers Oven worker to trade union leader
New bakers’ union leader SARAH WOOLLEY talks to the Star about her route into the movement, the need to get better at working together across unions – and getting more union-based storylines in soaps
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
From Workers’ Memorial Day to May Day rallies, TOM MORRISON examines the real challenges facing the labour movement as Reform UK’s glossy literature exploits legitimate grievances in traditional left strongholds
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
In the first of two articles, DANIEL POWELL investigates the causal aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian war as Britain commemorates 80 years since VE Day
“THE trade union movement needs to move away from a model where we look to other forces to help us, and towards one where we’re focused on winning on our own strength.”
Bakers’ union BFAWU general secretary-elect Sarah Woolley is frank about the fact that unions need to up their game in the face of Labour’s defeat last year.
“We need to concentrate on building our unions and serving our members,” she says. “We’ll always support the Labour Party. But they are not going to be in power for five years.
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