Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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We need unity to defeat minimum service levels legislation
We must be proactive in organising against this imposition, in the workplace, and in our communities, argues MICK LYNCH
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
THIS year’s TUC Congress has witnessed a resurgence in trade union militancy across a wide variety of sectors, and on the railways we have a national dispute that is continuing after 18 months.
Although workers have won pay deals through strike action, including RMT in other parts of the railway, the national rail dispute with the train operators which is orchestrated by the government is far from over.
It has become a political and ideological priority, for this zombie Tory government, to try and keep unions like RMT in a straitjacket.
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