JOE BESWICK of the London Renters Union talks to the Morning Star’s new Left on Record programme
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Civil servants are joining this wave of action
With PCS members themselves facing poverty due to poor pay and the cost-of-living crisis, industrial action was inevitable — it’s time to link up our struggles, writes LYNN HENDERSON
Picket line Edinburgh
The unnecessarily violent police intervention at a Quaker place of worship is a PR disaster and will only serve to deepen the chasm between them and the public. SYMON HILL reports
ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads
Due to the actions of this government, the challenges facing those with disabilities, such as spinal cord injuries, are nigh on insurmountable, argus RUTH HUNT
General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
THE turmoil in the Tory Party continues, but Liz Truss’s government stands united and resolute on capping Civil Service pay at just 2 per cent when the cost of living is escalating out of control.
In August, a PCS survey found that one in 12 members working in the Civil Service and related bodies are using foodbanks.
Statements from union members voting yes to strike action in the current PCS statutory ballot catalogue harrowing accounts of government workers just trying to make ends meet — and real worries about the cost-of-living crisis to come.
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Trade unionists must unite workplaces and communities in refusing to pay for the cost-of-living crisis — that means industrial militancy and building locally towards a mass demo this summer, writes LYNN HENDERSON