Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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The trade union movement must begin to actively co-ordinate strike action
Amid a spiralling cost-of-living crisis, unions must show unity in order to exert the largest possible force, says RMT general secretary MICK LYNCH
RMT general secretary, Mick Lynch, on a picket line outside Euston station in London, June 2022
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
THIS year’s TUC finds a trade union movement renewed, confident and most importantly, unafraid to flex its industrial muscle.
The cost-of-living crisis has escalated, with rapidly rising inflation, runaway energy prices and continued suppression of wages.
As a result, unions have started to ballot their members over pay, jobs and working conditions. And in many cases have either won disputes or begun to take industrial action.
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