Gloucestershire’s phlebotomists have brought their historic strike to a close after almost a year of action, leaving a legacy of determination – and a clear lesson about the power of solidarity in the face of anti-union laws and austerity, says FBU general secretary STEVE WRIGHT
I WOULDN’T go to Israel today. I don’t even buy Israeli oranges.
No, I’m not the slightest bit anti-semitic, but despite what the mighty Israeli lobby tries to tell us, liking and supporting Jews isn’t the same thing as supporting all the awful things the zionist Israeli government is doing to the Palestinians who share the country.
Things were different way back in the 1980s. Cheap flights and package holidays were making exotic travel available.
JAMES NALTON writes on the bizarre Aston Villa v Maccabi Tel Aviv scandal
ANN CZERNIK looks back over the last two years of carnage that began with the unprecedented October 7 operation and considers the rhetoric from both sides in light of the massacre carried out by Israel that has united the world in horror
There are only two things that stand between workers and the musket’s volley today - the ballot and the union, asserts MATT KERR



