ESTHER, from Nordic Model Now! explains how decriminalisation of prostitution, rendering it just another form of ‘work’, would undermine the Equality Act 2010
Jacques Delors – end of an illusion
DOUG NICHOLLS, former general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions and lifelong campaigner against the European Union, reflects on the recent death of one of the main architects of the EU
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Statement from the South African Communist Party
I HAD one thing in common with Jacques Delors. We both attended our first TUC Congress in 1988. He had been brought in to seduce the hitherto largely Eurosceptic British trade union movement to support the then-imminent Single European Act to create a single European market of 320 million consumers.
At the time I thought that the standing ovation he received was a little more worrying than just overpolite applause. It represented a really dangerous throwing in of the towel.
Our movement was still reeling from the aftermath of wave after wave of deindustrialisation, failed factory occupations and mass unemployment, the sale of council housing, the lifting of exchange controls on capital, successive rounds of anti-union legislation and of course the severe battering of the print workers at Wapping, and the coal and steel industry generally post-miners’ strike.
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