As the RMT Health and Safety Conference takes place, the union is calling for urgent action on crisis of work-related stress, understaffing and the growing threat of workplace assaults. RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY explains
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Sajid Javid’s bid to reduce migrants’ rights
SOLOMON HUGHES examines how the Home Secretary’s new regional pay thresholds plan would effectively create a system of ‘pass laws’ to further exploit migrants
In the third of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution
The US president’s career is defined by a consistent use of racist tropes and provocation. Why are world leaders so silent over his repeated vitriolic prejudice, asks ROGER McKENZIE
The Mandelson scandal reveals a political settlement in which democratic choice is curtailed and the power of markets eclipses the will of voters – only the left can challenge this, writes JON TRICKETT MP
NICK WRIGHT recalls one man’s journey from student revolutionary to Labour grandee – part of a wider world of working-class militants and communist activists whose lives shaped a generation and who should not be forgotten
Paul Holden’s book, The Fraud, exposes a hidden war inside Labour, where claims of anti-semitism, amplified by media power and factional networks, were used to break Corbynism and recast the party. JOHN ELLISON revisits the scandals, investigations and suppressed evidence from that era
HOME SECRETARY Sajid Javid is edging closer towards a nasty policy of regional work permits for migrants, which would use the “hostile environment” apparatus to push all new migrants into a legal status as second-class citizens.
The thing to grasp is that the real sting in post-Brexit government migration policy is not about “numbers” it is about rights.
The Tories claim that they want to leave the EU because they will have control of migration and be able to reduce “numbers” to satisfy anti-migrant feelings.
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