JOE BESWICK of the London Renters Union talks to the Morning Star’s new Left on Record programme
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NEU president PHIL CLARKE, writing in a personal capacity, explains why a different way of organising school support staff is needed
Members of the National Education Union (NEU) take part in a rally through Westminster to Parliament Square, London, as teachers stage walkouts across England in an ongoing dispute over pay. Picture date: Wednesday July 5, 2023
The unnecessarily violent police intervention at a Quaker place of worship is a PR disaster and will only serve to deepen the chasm between them and the public. SYMON HILL reports
ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads
Due to the actions of this government, the challenges facing those with disabilities, such as spinal cord injuries, are nigh on insurmountable, argus RUTH HUNT
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
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
A LOT HAS changed politically since the turn of the century. Unfortunately what has been largely consistent is a continuing decline in union density.
Will the TUC Congress in Brighton be a place for our union leaderships to really debate out how we tackle the problems we face and how we try to address them as a movement? Or will the Congress will be a space where many worthy motions are passed but lacking serious discussion on what we need to do differently?
Some factors are outside of our control — AI and a changing employer landscape, to name but two — there are few more important battles than the one GMB is fighting at Amazon for recognition.
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