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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Public-sector workers have been treated shamefully for too long
Civil Service wages are appallingly low, with our members’ pay unable to keep pace with even just the basics, warns FRAN HEATHCOTE
Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) on the picket
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
THE STUC meets at what is a pivotal moment for our movement and our class.
In a general election year, as we witness the death throes of a failing Conservative government, operating a scorched-earth policy, while simultaneously still trying to hang on to power, we need bold and radical ideas now more than ever, and it is so important that we work with as much solidarity as we can muster to build a vision of a real alternative. An alternative that millions of ordinary people are crying out for.
Fourteen years of austerity, a global pandemic and a catastrophic cost-of-living crisis have all had a crippling impact on the working class and they’ve exposed a fundamentally flawed economic model.
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