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McStrikers have captured the zeitgeist – look how many people they inspire
Bakers' union leader RONNIE DRAPER talks to the Star about why his members in McDonald’s are taking to the picket lines again on May Day
While Trump threatens to send Haitian gang leaders to El Salvador's terror prison, DANNY SHAW reveals how these paramilitary groups are merely symptoms of US-backed neocolonial rule — the real terrorists are the CIA and international actors arming desperate youth to traumatise an unarmed population
Having endured 14 years of Tory austerity followed by Starmerite cuts, young voters are desperate for change — but Anas Sarwar’s refusal to differentiate from Westminster means Scottish Labour risks electoral catastrophe, writes LAUREN HARPER
Mark Harvey pays tribute to a veteran of the days when the London building trade was a hotbed of working-class struggle, a legendary trade unionist, communist and poet
Rather than hoping for the emergence of some new ‘party of the left,’ EMMA DENT COAD sees a broad alliance of local parties and community groups as a way of reviving democratic progressive politics
ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
McDONALD’S workers planning to strike on May Day know that they have the fast-food behemoth rattled.
Last autumn’s strike was among the most successful actions taken by trade unions anywhere in the country that year, prompting McDonald’s to announce an end to using zero-hours contracts and to rush through the biggest pay rise its staff had seen in 10 years in January.
The result was especially impressive given bosses at the corporation — the largest private-sector employer on Earth — had dismissed the strike as a minor dispute at two individual stores involving just a handful of employees, as well as denying that it had anything to do with pay or union recognition.
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