Usdaw is working hard alongside its members to smash down barrriers facing neurodivergent workers, writes Joanne Thomas
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Defend the right to strike: government attacks on democracy and the legal rights of the working class
by Professor Keith Ewing and Lord Hendy KC
RIGHTS THREATENED: Ambulance workers on the picket line, yesterday, outside London Ambulance Service NHS Trust control room in Waterloo, London
Karl Marx’s Capital remains one of the most influential works of social science ever written and is much more than merely an historical document, repaying study today, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY and Workers’ School.
Nearly a century ago several hundred young workers went on a ramble in a mighty show of solidarity for public access to land, says WILL from YCL Yorkshire & East Midlands
JOHN REES replies to Claudia Webbe
There is no justification for spending colossal amounts of money on so-called defence — sacrificing our education, health and transport while they’re at it, says BERT SCHOUWENBURG
GEOFFREY BELL looks at the curiously unsupportive stance of British progressives of the Easter Rising
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ON FRIDAY of last week, the House of Commons supported two notable private members’ Bills. These dealt with the rights of hospitality workers to receive the tips left by customers, and with the right of parents to paid neo-natal leave. These measures were, however, wholly overshadowed by two government Bills which in contrast represent an unprecedented attack on the ability of workers to enjoy a decent, secure and dignified working life.
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