JACK DAVIDSON explains the motivation behind the UCU strike action at the University of Sheffield
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The impact of the Truss regime on rural and coastal communities
DAWN EVANS looks at the prospects for the local class struggle from remote south-west Cornwall, where pay is poor, union membership is low, second-home speculators plague communities — but the fightback is growing
CORNISH RESISTANCE: XR activists march through St Ives, June 2021
Davie and Turness are two scalps for Trump, Farage and Johnson, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
LEE BROWN highlights the latest attempts to undo progressive reforms instated during the presidency of Rafael Correa
Ahead of the Communist Party’s forthcoming Congress, KEVAN NELSON takes a look at the global issues of war, peace and imperialism that will be up for discussion among comrades this weekend
ROGER McKENZIE calls for greater support from trade unionists and the general public for female workers involved in industrial disputes
While all of good faith on the left should wish the new party well, ANDREW MURRAY pinpoints some of the major challenges it will need to grapple with as it approaches its founding conference later this month
THERE may be one good thing to be said about Britain’s latest Tory Prime Minister: Liz Truss doesn’t hide that she’s an enemy of the working class.
Her predecessors Boris Johnson, Theresa May and David Cameron did — to an extent. Johnson hid it behind the jovial clown image, May behind a benign blandness and Cameron behind his “big society” One Nation Conservatism nonsense.
All of them liked to claim they were the torchbearers of Margaret Thatcher’s legacy — but Truss is the one who has truly been channelling Thatcher’s dogged resolve to crush the unions and disempower the working class.
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