The real question for Your Party, as it holds its CEC elections, will be whether shaped from above or built from below by empowered branches and a bold, uncompromising socialist programme. Mel Mullings, Riccardo la Torre and Chloe Braddock of the Grassroots Left slate set out their case
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RMT is preparing for an extensive campaign
In an exclusive article, RMT general secretary MICK LYNCH explains the reasons behind the strike, why rail workers will be continuing their action – and why the upsurge in union activity makes him optimistic they will win
As capitalism lurches from crisis to crisis, more and more workers are ‘superexploited’ – they receive less than the minimum deemed ‘socially necessary’ to support themselves and produce the next generation of workers, writes the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
As the RMT Health and Safety Conference takes place, the union is calling for urgent action on crisis of work-related stress, understaffing and the growing threat of workplace assaults. RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY explains
Current polling shows Scottish Labour faces a stark choice: break decisively with Westminster or continue its slide into irrelevance, warns VINCE MILLS
As discussions continue between the US and Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear enrichment programme, the suppression of internal dissent by the theocratic dictatorship grows. STEVE BISHOP reports.
I MUST start by congratulating members working on London Underground, Network Rail and the train operating companies for the magnificent show of unity and solidarity that you all displayed during our first phase of industrial action in the current national rail dispute.
This has also been met with an outpouring of public support, reflecting the just nature of our campaign.
While workers face pay and job cuts, the employers have been engaging in rampant profiteering, taking money out of the network which could have been used to develop rail in this country in a planned manner.
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