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Charles Windsor during the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster in London, November 7, 2023
CLUELESS Conservatives have run out of ideas to confront the country’s crisis, campaigners and trade unions claimed after PM Rishi Sunak’s programme for the next year was unveiled today.
The King’s Speech setting out the Tories’ plans — likely the last before the next election — was long on right-wing posturing and short on measures to deal with economic hardship and social problems.
A centrepiece was bringing in the strike-breaking minimum services agreements in key public services, which will force workers to work on strike days.
Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
The historic heartland of anti-fascist resistance and mining militancy now faces a new battle — stopping Nigel Farage. ANDREW MURRAY meets ex-Labour MP Beth Winter and former Plaid leader Leanne Wood, the two socialists leading the resistance