In the wake of his recent humanitarian visit to Cuba, RICHARD BURGON points to the now urgent need to defend the island’s political sovereignty and its right to self-determination
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The new Employment Rights Act is a step forward, but restoring collective bargaining and union power remains essential to tackling insecurity, outsourcing and low pay, says PAUL WHITEHOUSE
Rising support for Farage’s party reflects Labour’s failure to defend working-class living standards or offer a credible alternative to neoliberal decline, says JOSEPH MILLS
Trade unionists are mobilising to support Cuban workers and public services, amid escalating US pressure on the socialist island. RONAN OGILVY explains
BLACK mental health really does matter. Black people all find our own strategies for surviving what feels like an unending brutal world of racism.
Sometimes we march. Sometimes we organise. Other times we litigate. Other times we just curl up in a corner and hope the racism just goes away.
I have used all of these strategies at various points over my life as, at times, I have struggled to survive.
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