The 25th anniversary meeting of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation in the Kyrgyz capital may offer a glimmer of hope that international relations do not need to be defined by endless confrontation, writes KENNY COYLE
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Healthcare workers must oppose ‘divide and rule’ with other unions
It boggles the mind that those Tories responsible for our low pay would try and use it as a stick with which to beat the RMT and its demand for better wages — NHS staff must stand in solidarity with all striking workers, writes IAIN MOONEY
NHS staff and supporters take part in a protest march in central London in September 2020
The artist, who has just died, is embedded in the subconscious of the Palestinian people
The five young men killed in the A66 crash were responsible for a devastating tragedy — but the crash should force us to ask difficult questions about wider society, argues RENATA MEDEIROS MIRRA
The unwillingness of the British political elite to acknowledge that we are on the edge of a direct conflict with Russia leaves the peace movement with an urgent and onerous task
Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights general secretary GAWAIN LITTLE discusses the impact of the US-Israeli war on the Iranian people and economy
Capitalism has extracted itself from crisis before, argues PRABHAT PATNAIK – but through methods no longer available. So it is turning to authoritarianism, militarism and neocolonialism
IT IS possibly one of the oldest tactics in the book — and yet again we see it being unleashed to divide public service workers and the public during the current fightback against the cost-of-living crisis.
I have been a front-line NHS nurse for 10 years, and during this time I have seen the government and those running organisations within our NHS successfully divide workers and stifle trade union organisation.
We’ve seen top Tories paraded before TV cameras during the latest wave of strike action by the RMT using examples of nurses and other public-sector workers to try and paint a narrative that rail workers are causing detriment to other front-line services.
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A past confrontation permanently shaped the methods the state will use to protect employers against any claims by their employees, writes MATT WRACK, but unions are readying to face the challenge