Our Foreign Secretary now condemns Israel in the Commons, yet Britain still supplies weapons and intelligence for its bombing campaigns — as the horror reaches perhaps the final stage, action must finally replace words, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
'We need people like us in power'
To save the British high street and the jobs that go with it, we need a government that looks and sounds like normal union members, writes Usdaw general secretary PADDY LILLIS
I went to bed planning for university, but woke to bombs falling on Gaza, losing my home, best friend, and nearly my hand — yet I am unbroken, and still dream of writing to carry Palestinian voices worldwide, writes EMAN GHASSAN ABUZAYED
The shock suspension of socialist MPs and Diane Abbott’s re-suspension reveals a leadership intent on crushing internal debate — but MERCEDES VILLALBA MSP warns against surrendering party democracy without a fight
HUGH LANNING reports on an initiative that will aim at counteracting the anti-Palestine narratives spoon-fed to Western governments and the mass media by Israel’s propaganda machine
KEITH FLETT looks at the long history of coercion in British employment laws
While Spode quit politics after inheriting an earldom, Farage combines MP duties with selling columns, gin, and even video messages — proving reality produces more shameless characters than PG Wodehouse imagined, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
EACH week we are hearing of large numbers of jobs going and reports of big retail names and businesses going into administration and facing possible closure. HMV, House of Fraser, Marks and Spencer’s, Debenhams, John Lewis. These are just some of the big-name retailers in crisis.
The situation in retail is fast turning into a national crisis impacting on many other sectors such as distribution and food manufacturing. If we saw this level of job losses in many other industries we would be seeing high level government action. However, the government remains apathetic at best.
The government is wrangled in party politics that is consuming them to the point of tearing the Conservative Party apart and threatens to divide the country even further. While we have record levels of homelessness, child poverty, a crisis in social care and evidence that universal credit is contributing to the rise of people using foodbanks the government lurches from one crisis to another. Organisations like foodbanks, charities and trade unions are showing leadership where the government is failing.
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By sticking together, working collectively and building the union, we can weather any uncertainty ahead, writes general secretary of Usdaw PADDY LILLIS
We need a proper social security system that supports families and provides a proper safety net, writes PADDY LILLIS, calling for the Labour government to lift the cruel two-child benefit cap
The growing epidemic of retail crime has seen Usdaw members abused, threatened and assaulted — it is time for action, and the May 2 elections can provide it, writes PADDY LILLIS
General secretary PADDY LILLIS explains why Usdaw believes supporting Labour is vital for its members’ well-being — rising costs, economic instability, and punitive restrictions on unions underscore the urgent need for political change
