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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The week to love unions
The annual celebration of all that trade unions do for us comes at a time when we have real reasons to be optimistic about the recent growth of our movement, writes PAUL NOWAK
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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
THIS week is the TUC’s Heart Unions week — a chance for the trade union movement to celebrate the incredible work our unions are doing to win for working people.
After working through a global pandemic, union members have been forced to navigate their way through a cost-of-living crisis this year. Skyrocketing household costs have left workers struggling to afford the basics.
Nurses, paramedics, rail staff, posties, teachers and other key workers are telling us they’re going to foodbanks and choosing not to turn the heating on.
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