Despite the adoring support from Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Javier Milei’s radical-right free-market nightmare is unravelling, and the people are beginning to score major victories against the government in the streets and in elections, reports BEN HAYES

YESTERDAY, the National Education Union became the largest union to win a national ballot under the restrictive thresholds imposed by the 2016 Trade Union Act.
With 90 per cent of teachers in England voting for action on a 53 per cent turnout — more than 121,000 votes — this is the single largest vote for strike action since the legislation was introduced.
In some ways more significant is the fact that this ballot was organised across 24,000 individual workplaces, with an average of 13 members per workplace.

With 90 courses from health and safety to neurodiversity, AI and political economy, we are helping workers understand the political context of their struggles, writes general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE


