Secret consultation documents finally released after the Morning Star’s two-year freedom of information battle show the Home Office misrepresented public opinion, claiming support for policies that most respondents actually strongly criticised as dangerous and unfair, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Workers for the world: US labour became vital to the climate movement in 2023
Last year saw a coming together of union and ecological concerns in the US, with the demand for a just transition being part of the massive UAW strike, reports KATIE MYERS
A pumpjack dips its head to extract oil in a basin north of Helper, Utah, July 13, 2023
Our groundbreaking report reveals how private rail companies are bleeding millions from public coffers through exploitative leasing practices — but we have the solutions, writes Aslef Scottish organiser KEVIN LINDSAY
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Reform’s rise speaks to a deep crisis in Establishment parties – but relies on appealing to social and economic grievances the left should make its own, argues NICK WRIGHT
This year’s Bristol Radical History Festival focused on the persistent threats of racism, xenophobia and, of course, our radical collective resistance to it across Ireland and Britain, reports LYNNE WALSH
A maverick’s self-inflicted snake bites could unlock breakthrough treatments – but they also reveal deeper tensions between noble scientific curiosity and cold corporate callousness, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
The FBU is demanding 52 weeks of full pay for women firefighters, highlighting the unique health risks they face — and the continuing need to recruit and retain more women if policies like this are still not in place, writes SEONA HART
THE year 2023 was marked by symbiosis between the labour and climate movements. Workers across industries and geographies loudly declared that a world in which their safety and well-being are disregarded is even more dangerous to them and to others in a time of energy transition and climate crisis.
After decades of hesitancy, several major unions recognised an urgent need to organise those who will do the hard work of decarbonising the nation’s economy. It doesn’t hurt that public sympathy, and policy, have grown friendlier toward them.
As a result, calls for a just transition rattled union halls and corporate offices as organised labour in the US enjoyed one of its most active years in recent memory and environmental organisations, long uncertain about where unions stood, found new allies.
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