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
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Will the coronavirus crisis break the neoliberal political consensus?
With capitalism shaken by the pandemic, the possibility for change is there, but it won’t be won without a fight, says SOLOMON HUGHES
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In the third of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution
The US president’s career is defined by a consistent use of racist tropes and provocation. Why are world leaders so silent over his repeated vitriolic prejudice, asks ROGER McKENZIE
The Mandelson scandal reveals a political settlement in which democratic choice is curtailed and the power of markets eclipses the will of voters – only the left can challenge this, writes JON TRICKETT MP
NICK WRIGHT recalls one man’s journey from student revolutionary to Labour grandee – part of a wider world of working-class militants and communist activists whose lives shaped a generation and who should not be forgotten
Paul Holden’s book, The Fraud, exposes a hidden war inside Labour, where claims of anti-semitism, amplified by media power and factional networks, were used to break Corbynism and recast the party. JOHN ELLISON revisits the scandals, investigations and suppressed evidence from that era
WHEN we emerge from the viral shutdown, will the politics of cuts, precarious employment, low wages and privatisation be left behind?
Many people — including on the right and centre — are saying so.
I think there is a strong possibility the crisis creates a new chance to contest the consensus. But it isn’t automatic. The “empire” will try to strike back.
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