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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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
DONALD TRUMP will be inaugurated as US president on January 20 2025. His presidency increases the risk of: nuclear confrontation, war, military escalation in Palestine and the Middle East, China, Latin America, runaway climate breakdown, a low-pay economy, as well as the ramping up of far-right racism, attacks on migrant, refugee, women’s, abortion, LGBT+ rights and undermining the sovereignty of nations.
Trump was elected against the backdrop of a floundering economy that hit the US people hard. Forbes estimated Trump’s net worth at $5.5 billion, but while Trump lives in luxury this billionaire has no solutions for the cost-of-living crisis for the many. Trump’s insistence that the NHS is “on the table” in trade deals threatens to escalate the privatisation of the NHS.
On the day of his inauguration “Together Against Trump” will be uniting against and protesting this far-right, reactionary agenda that threatens people and the planet.
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