General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
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Now is the time to speak out for Palestine
Only through the achievement of the rights of the Palestinian people will a lasting peace be achieved, writes LOUISE REGAN
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After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The transformation of a stable secular state into a fractured ruin largely ruled by Western-backed fundamentalists exposes the hollow nature of ‘multipolarity’ and the absence of principled anti-imperialism today, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Facing economic turmoil, Jim Callaghan’s government rejected Tony Benn’s alternative economic strategy in favour of cuts that paved the way for Thatcherism — and the cuts-loving Labour of the present era, writes KEITH FLETT
The economic value of disability benefits far outweighs their cost, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
As tensions rise in the Middle East, the role of Iran in the region’s political balance becomes ever more significant. STEVE BISHOP assesses the current situation
“IN OUR thousands in our millions we are all Palestinians.”
This is the chant that resonates with many of us and which we have witnessed in action recently. In the last two weeks we have seen huge demonstrations in London with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets to show their solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Last Saturday 300,000 people filled the streets of London and thousands more in cities across Britain and the world to stand in solidarity with the people of Gaza.
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