General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
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Much to celebrate but the struggle continues
Policies that favour the workers are not won in Parliament, they are won in the workplace, argues KIM JOHNSON
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After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The transformation of a stable secular state into a fractured ruin largely ruled by Western-backed fundamentalists exposes the hollow nature of ‘multipolarity’ and the absence of principled anti-imperialism today, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Facing economic turmoil, Jim Callaghan’s government rejected Tony Benn’s alternative economic strategy in favour of cuts that paved the way for Thatcherism — and the cuts-loving Labour of the present era, writes KEITH FLETT
The economic value of disability benefits far outweighs their cost, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
As tensions rise in the Middle East, the role of Iran in the region’s political balance becomes ever more significant. STEVE BISHOP assesses the current situation
ON SUNDAY April 28 I commemorated International Workers’ Memorial Day, remembering the dead and fighting for the living. This May Day, this is even more important as thoughts of the global working class are focused on Palestine.
The doctors, journalists and aid workers who have paid the ultimate price for doing their job. The alleged reports of mass graves at two destroyed Gazan hospital sites, including medical staff still in scrubs who refused to abandon their patients. Journalists targeted while clearly identified as press, or as with Wael al Dahdouh, his family targeted and bombed while he was reporting live on air.
The killings of the World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid workers have added to the ever-growing picture of workers in Gaza being targeted. Our government is complicit in their deaths, refusing to condemn clear violations of international humanitarian law, resisting calls for a ceasefire and continuing arms sales to Israel.
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