The sheer number present on the day, estimated at half a million, points to organisational acumen and bodes well for developing the movement, says DIANE ABBOTT
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Time for unions to up their game
Plummeting membership and declining activism are largely self-inflicted for Britain’s lethargic trade unions, writes ROGER McKENZIE, arguing for a drastic change of tack
Thousands march to Trafalgar Square in central London, to celebrate workers' achievements at a May Day rally in May 2016
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Cypriot lawyer and former central committee member of the Progressive Working People’s Party (Akel) TOUMAZOS TSIELEPIS discusses the case for expelling the British military from Cyprus
US aggression has plunged us into an energy price crisis that will spark steep inflation across the board — and the shock will be much worse than in the 1970s, warns MICHAEL BURKE
ALBERT EINSTEIN is credited with saying that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
This seems an eminently sensible point of view to me. You have to wonder why then if someone widely regarded as one of the foremost minds of any generation says such a thing that the trade union movement and the left — if indeed those things are the same — just bundles along doing the same old thing, expecting different results from the ones we keep getting.
I have been around the trade union and labour movement a while now.
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