Aslef general secretary DAVE CALFE looks at how rail workers and miners stood together against wage cuts 100 years ago – and why the legacy of collective action endures today
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A losing game
The latest woes of the DUP do not represent the last moment for unionist politics in Ireland, but they do mark a further stage in its disintegration, says NICK WRIGHT
Edwin Poots walks past a portrait of former party leader Ian Paisley in the halls of Parliament Buildings at Stormont
As Africa’s progressives aim to consolidate its anti-colonial programme, VIJAY PRASHAD reports on the US getting a military foothold in Ghana
KERRY FLECK explains how the annual event unites thousands in a celebration of workers’ power, culture and collective resistance
The former Nato chief stirred up dark historical undercurrents with his call to cut welfare for military spending, says SOLOMON HUGHES
The life of a modest Norfolk organiser contrasts with the dramatic rise and disappearance of a controversial figure in US labour, says MARK SEDDON
JACK YOUD explains how Salford City Council has taken on rogue landlords and won, setting an example to the rest of the country
THE more theologically minded members of the Democratic Unionist Party in Ireland hold as doctrinally sound the proposition that the Lord created the universe in six working days.
A mere 6,000 years ago, Edwin Poots holds, the Lord created the celestial vessel on which we all dwell.
This is not the only delusion that dominates the thinking of the DUP’s dinosaurs.
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