ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
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‘The whole system needs an overhaul’
TUC president and PCS leader MARK SERWOTKA spoke exclusively to the Star ahead of the union's conference
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
From Workers’ Memorial Day to May Day rallies, TOM MORRISON examines the real challenges facing the labour movement as Reform UK’s glossy literature exploits legitimate grievances in traditional left strongholds
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
In the first of two articles, DANIEL POWELL investigates the causal aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian war as Britain commemorates 80 years since VE Day
AS CIVIL Service union PCS meets for its annual conference, general secretary Mark Serwotka is warning the government that its battle for fair pay is far from finished.
Its national pay ballot last month backed strike action by four to one over attempts to hold civil servants’ pay award below inflation. That’s despite the value of civil servants’ pay falling by between 8.6 and 11.4 per cent since 2010.
The pay ballot gave PCS one of the strongest mandates for action in its history. But the Tories’ Trade Union Act prevents the union from acting on it. Though 91 per cent supported action short of a strike over pay and 80 per cent backed strikes, a turnout of 47.7 per cent fell just short of the government’s 50 per cent threshold.
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