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Join May Day celebrations wherever you are and stand in solidarity
Today is a day for emphasising our unity, not our divisions, writes ROGER SUTTON, organiser of the London May Day Organising Committee
In the second of a series of interviews with leaders of progressive parties in Wales ahead of the May 7 Senedd election David Nicholson talks to Welsh Green Party leader ANTHONY SLAUGHTER
Oil and gas prices are rising due to the illegal war against Iran, but new nuclear power plants will only make things worse as their costs also escalate, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
As women dominate public services yet face pay gaps, unsafe workloads and rising misogyny, this International Women’s Day and TUC Women’s Conference must be a rallying point, says ANDREA EGAN
As the government quietly begins reviewing the BBC’s Royal Charter, the moment should be seized to refound the corporation as a truly democratic, regionally rooted public service, writes PAUL W FLEMING
Like the president in Wag the Dog, Donald Trump faces scandal at home and turns to conflict abroad. But the conflict with Iran risks igniting a regional inferno with global consequences, warns ROGER McKENZIE
WITH May Day in London returning to the street, it becomes a focus for the ever-increasing pressure on ordinary people both in Britain and around the world.
The massive rise in the cost of living, employers adopting fire-and-rehire policies, the continuing massive profits for the rich and the large companies, cuts for those on benefits, the cost of housing and the increase of evictions in the rented sector etc etc — the list goes on. The profiteering during the Covid crisis while workers took the brunt is just another example.
May Day 2022 is celebrating the achievements of the working class — in the last two years primarily the massive efforts by workers to address the pandemic and keep our society going, from those in the health and care sector, other emergency services, transport workers, delivery, distribution and retail workers, power workers, education, etc.
Many paid a heavy price, particularly in the health sector, and in London there were more than 50 bus drivers who died from Covid.
The Grenfell inquiry has shown what has been going on across our society with lowering of safety standards, commercial deceit and a government culture of profits over public safety.
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