RHUN AP IORWERTH outlines Plaid Cymru’s immediate and medium-term policy goals
A step forward for workers’ rights
TONY BURKE welcomes news of a new suppy chain law that will strenthen the human rights due diligence obligations of German companies
Joerg Hofmann of the 2.5 million-strong IG Metall union
A row over Trotskyist factions exposes competing visions of organisation inside Your Party and the wider left, argues NICK WRIGHT
A growing coalition, Cymru Together, is challenging traditional politics – calling for practical plans that connect climate action with economic justice, writes BETHAN SAYED
ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT delve into the strange, active – and sometimes predatory – world of plants
While politicians fixate on defence budgets, the real answers lie in peace-building and economic justice, says ALAN SIMPSON
ANDREA BRADLEY highlights how a City of Glasgow College health and safety dispute is the subject of an STUC Congress emergency motion
GERMANY took a step nearer to protecting workers in supply chain companies when a new law on due diligence in supply chains had its first reading in the Bundestag, the German parliament, this week.
But unions said they are concerned that employers will attempt to block or dilute its proposals.
German unions have have been campaigning for a supply chain law to strengthen the human rights due diligence obligations of German companies.
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