With the rise of Reform and the flag-raising phenomenon, it’s hard not to recall my family’s struggles with racism, from Teddy Boys attacking my pregnant mother to me being told to ‘go back to the jungle’ at only five years old, writes ROGER MCKENZIE

MEXICAN and US unions are making great strides in winning union recognition by using the rapid response clauses in the new United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) for workers — winning representation by independent trade unions for workers who want to kick out yellow unions which back employers and hold down pay and working conditions.
Shamefully, US and European companies have hidden behind the discredited Mexican labour laws to keep independent unions out of their companies in order to maintain compliant workforces undermining US workers’ wages and making it easy for US and Canadian companies to move jobs into low-tax, low-pay areas of Mexico.
Yellow unions such as the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM) have a history of collusion in dismissing independent union reps and ignoring the wishes of the workforce.

The move against alleged PKK members that sparked outrage as a community centre in north London was raided last year has now come to trial, writes TONY BURKE, but in the meantime, the peace process abroad has changed the situation almost entirely

TONY BURKE reviews new releases from Cheikh Lo, Mishra & Deepa Shakthi, N’Faly Kouyate

TONY BURKE explains how an internationally significant breakthrough for workers’ organisation and recognition against two notoriously anti-union global mega corporations has been finally achieved in Canada

TONY BURKE revels in the publication of previously unreleased tracks by the great US folksinger