The government has few aces up its sleeve when it comes to managing popular anger, argues ANDREW MURRAY
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Women are at the cutting edge of trade union struggle
In my union PCS, we know from experience that women are the first line of defence during this ongoing period of attacks from the government and employers on our living standards, writes LYNN HENDERSON
Members of the PCS union on the picket line outside the Passport Office in Glasgow
Israel's brutality in Lebanon, combined with efforts to draw the Lebanese government into negotiations, are part of a strategy to delegitimise resistance to occupation and apartheid, argues RAMZY BAROUD
KEITH FLETT looks at the state’s efforts to limit protest rights from the 19th century to today’s repression of the Palestine movement
A landmark UN resolution led by Ghana declares the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity — but Western opposition and abstentions reveal enduring resistance to historical accountability, write ISAAC SANEY and JAMES COUNTS EARLY
The new BBC director-general now faces a test of public scrutiny, with his record at McKinsey and lack of newsroom experience under the spotlight, says STEPHEN ARNELL
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
SOLIDARITY greetings to Andrea Bradley, chair of the Scottish TUC women’s committee, and all my trade union sisters attending this year’s STUC women’s conference.
You meet at a time when building collective power and support has never been more important for women.
PCS is a majority-female union and as our long-standing general secretary Mark Serwotka prepares for retirement at the end of the year, our members are about to elect his replacement.
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Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
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ROS SITWELL reports from the Morning Star conference on ‘Race, Sex and Class Liberation’ last weekend