Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
The Minimum Service Levels Act is dangerous, unjust and must be defeated
We must be prepared to mobilise and build a mass movement against the Tories’ vicious anti-union law, writes Fire Brigades Union leader MATT WRACK
LOUD AND CLEAR: FBU firefighters rally outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh last October
MISH RAHMAN introduces the platform of a new organisation within Your Party, which will campaign for the highest level of democracy, accountability and participation, having learned from the mistakes of Labour in the 2015-19 era
The colonial mindset behind the governance of the UN is the reason for its inertia when it comes to conflict resolution, argues ROGER McKENZIE – but can China’s Global Governance Initiative point in a new direction of global equality?
ANDREW MURRAY wonders what the great communist foe of Oswald Mosley would make of today’s far-right surge, warning that while the triumph of Farage and ‘Robinson’ is far from inevitable, placing any faith in Starmer in an anti-fascist front is a fool’s errand
LOTTE COLLETT welcomes the arrival of a new party for the left, a vehicle for councils to finally fight for progressive policies on housing, green spaces and public facilities, rather than administering cuts and misery from central government
KEVAN NELSON reports back from a delegation to the epic celebrations for the anniversary of Vietnam’s 1945 revolution, where British communists found a thriving, prosperous socialist country, brimming with ambition and well-earned national pride
THE labour movement is facing one of the most vicious attacks in recent history. The Tories’ Minimum Service Levels Act is the latest in a long line of anti-union laws, taking aim at our right to strike. As we celebrate International Workers’ Day, we must be clear-eyed about what is at stake.
The Westminster government is intent on driving down wages and silencing workers who fight for better pay and conditions. They know that workers’ power lies in our ability to organise in our workplaces and to withhold our labour.
The eight-hour day, better pay, safer conditions, the weekend and paid holiday would not exist unless bosses knew we could stop the workplace. Workers who can’t strike, can’t bargain. And if you’re not bargaining, you’re begging.
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While workers must organise to push Starmer beyond his timid manifesto pledges, the scrapping of anti-strike laws and restoration of public services promised means we must vote Labour, argues MATT WRACK
