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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Say an emphatic No to racism!
From the odious treatment of refugees to police strip-searching of a 15-year-old-child, institutionalised racism is ever-present and needs to be confronted and defeated, writes SABBY DHALU on UN Anti-Racism Day
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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
TODAY’S “March Against Racism” marking UN Anti-Racism Day organised by Stand up to Racism, supported by the TUC and affiliated unions, could not be more timely. The last few days have exposed the distressing racist sexual abuse, degradation and humiliation that a black girl known as “Child Q” was forced to endure by police officers.
The government also recently published its Inclusive Britain report which failed to reject the discredited Commission for Race and Ethnic Disparities (CRED) “Sewell” report or address institutional racism and problems in policing highlighted by the Child Q case.
A few days ago another boat capsized near the coast of Libya in the Mediterranean Sea, leaving 19 African and Middle Eastern refugees dead and only four survivors, but was met with very little media coverage let alone outrage and compassion.
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The Tories are pouring fuel on the fire of racism, which it is vital to resist, warns SABBY DHALU ahead of a protest at Tory Head Office today
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