Trade unions need to step up and force a turn in the policies of the labour movement to effectively confront the far-right threat, argues NICK WRIGHT
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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
As the 90th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish civil war is marked, Teesside campaigners will gather to remember the local men and women who stood against fascism, explains TONY FOX
Whatever differences exist among international sympathisers of the Bolivarian revolution about its current trajectory, they should unite against the imperialist power that is the source of an enforced retreat, argues ROGER D HARRIS
Washington’s inability to subjugate Iran is an example of how it is trying to preserve a regional order that no longer exists, argues RAMZY BAROUD
US financial instability is exposing the limits of a dollar-dominated global economy — and giving the Global South a historic chance to build an alternative, says MURAD QURESHI
Deprivation is a fundamental factor in criminal behaviour that must be addressed but, KENNY MacASKILL argues, there needs to a major rethink in sentencing to tackle overcrowding
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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