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FRIENDS of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) Educational Trust launched in Parliament on Thursday night, with activists coming together to back trade union education.
Hosting Labour MP Richard Burgon said “self-educating our class is a proud tradition of the trade union movement.”
He stressed “the wide range of course available at reasonable prices” from the trust, including “lessons about organising in the workplace to be the next generation of trade union workplace leaders… [and] an excellent education programme called The Roots of Racism, where it comes from, how it can be combatted.”
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
We are experiencing a wave of organised, often deadly violence targeting migrants from other parts of Africa — but the poorest South Africans reject this hatred, staying true to the spirit of Ubuntu and Pan-African unity, reports NIGEL BRANKEN
This ‘Big Meet’ our focus is building the next ‘Megapicket,’ say HENRY FOWLER and GAWAIN LITTLE of the General Federation of Trade Unions