Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
CWU: Unequivocally, unashamedly, Labour
The Labour Party and the labour movement are at last uniting behind a progressive programme of nationalisation - we must hasten that process, writes CRAIG ANDERSON
Labour will work with the unions to bring the Post Office back into public ownership
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
A recent Financial Times column on the Iran war exemplifies how the Western elite worldview is more concerned with strategy and power than legality or human life, writes ANDREW MURRAY
STEVE BISHOP considers the prospects for a settlement of the conflict and how the demands of both sides are being viewed
The PM is drawing cautious distance from Donald Trump over Iran – but history suggests Britain’s support may run deeper than it appears, just as it did during the Vietnam war, says KEITH FLETT
CONFERENCE season is upon us once more, and the position of the trades union movement inside the Labour Party is better than it has been in many a year.
Both at Scottish and UK level, the Labour Party leadership is utterly committed to genuine partnership with the trades union movement.
Labour is now clearly, unequivocally, and unashamedly committed to repealing the anti-trades union laws which shame the UK internationally.
This isn’t merely an act of comradeship with the trades union movement though; it is a demonstration of the belief that a healthy democracy depends upon every citizen being valued and empowered within it, and that trades unions are a vital part of that democratic future.
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