Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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It’s time for the whole labour movement to back Organise Now
General secretary of the bakers' union SARAH WOOLLEY looks at the marked success of the innovative workplace recruitment and organising tool for union activists after its first year
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
THIS weekend, we celebrate a year of the Organise Now project, launched by the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union, Strike Map and Notes from Below at last year’s World Transformed festival.
Impressed by comrades in the US, we wanted to emulate the incredible success of the Emergency Workplace Organising Committee (EWOC), which has helped organise thousands of workers in sectors where unions have been non-existent for generations.
Organise Now is a response to the crises in work, pay and living standards. As a movement, we have to face the reality that, according to the government’s own data, 200,000 left the union movement in 2022 — 129,000 of them women in the private sector.
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