General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
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Warm fluffy pledges won’t save the planet
Without detailed industrial plans, a radical shift in global economic thinking and a real Green New Deal, the climate emergency will only escalate, warns REBECCA LONG BAILEY
COP26 protests
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The transformation of a stable secular state into a fractured ruin largely ruled by Western-backed fundamentalists exposes the hollow nature of ‘multipolarity’ and the absence of principled anti-imperialism today, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Facing economic turmoil, Jim Callaghan’s government rejected Tony Benn’s alternative economic strategy in favour of cuts that paved the way for Thatcherism — and the cuts-loving Labour of the present era, writes KEITH FLETT
The economic value of disability benefits far outweighs their cost, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
As tensions rise in the Middle East, the role of Iran in the region’s political balance becomes ever more significant. STEVE BISHOP assesses the current situation
THE Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report states clearly that we need a code red response to a code red emergency.
Days into the most important Cop of our lifetime we have seen warm fluffy pledges to shift away from coal, to end public financing for “unabated” fossil fuel projects abroad and we have countries proudly outlining their own targets to decarbonise industrial sectors.
Any action is of course positive but what we have seen so far is sparse. Sadly more toothless targets are not the code red response the world truly needs.
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