Employment lawyer ALICE BOWMAN warns ‘day one rights’ include an undefined ‘initial period’ and the zero-hours contract fixes create baffling fixed-term loopholes. If the Bill doesn’t work properly and deliver, Labour is doomed
Corporate Britain is cashing in
Once again workers are being forced to pay for a crisis not of their own making – but when our movement works together we can take on the unscrupulous employers, argues Unite leader SHARON GRAHAM
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The protests against the US presidential visit are over, but the public probably doesn’t know that new US nuclear bombs are now stationed here, putting us all in danger — we have to raise awareness and get them out, writes CND’s KATE HUDSON
In a speech to the 12th Xiangshan Forum in Beijing, SEVIM DAGDELEN warns of a growing historical revisionism to whitewash Germany and Japan’s role in WWII as part of a return to a cold war strategy from the West — but multipolarity will win out
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
DENNIS BROE gives an update on the last week of anti-austerity protests against the Macron regime, which has seen the supposedly more right-leaning Gilets Jaunes join with the unions and the left
JOHN PERRY and FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ unpack the latest propaganda attack on Nicaragua, explaining how a clearly biased, US-backed regime-change NGO used a totally unrepresentative sample and survey methodology to get a ridiculous result
WHEN both the governor of the Bank of England and the Prime Minister called for “pay restraint” it was clear that workers were being set up for a fall.
Once again we were being asked to pay the price for a mess not of our making. With inflation hitting double figures and more, we are now in the midst of another crisis in the real economy — one that is attacking living standards.
The Establishment call for a national pay cut is consistent with the pattern of recent years. We know how the story goes.
A crisis of some kind ensues, that to resolve requires either real change to the economic order or for someone to lose out, and the Establishment picks what appears to be the easy option. Looting the workers.
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Putting our faith in this or that political leader is no strategy at all: in the face of poverty wages now and workers’ lives being put on the line during Covid, our only option is directly organising for class power ourselves, writes SHARON GRAHAM
The Morning Star publishes an exclusive preview of new Unite leader SHARON GRAHAM'S address to the TUC Congress tomorrow
If elected general secretary of Unite, I will lead a union that focuses on the shop floor not Westminster and build up membership by delivering on jobs, pay and conditions
