All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionised in a historic victory for labour, says RIO YAMAT
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Working-class unity and the new deal: the next steps
Communications Workers Union general secretary DAVE WARD says combatting a resurgent far right means uniting the working class behind a positive vision for change – with collective bargaining at its heart
Communication Workers Union (CWU) general secretary Dave Ward (centre) joins postal workers on the picket line at the Camden Town Delivery Office in north west London, November 24, 2022
Letter to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper – to be delivered by a delegation of Jews to Downing Street today
Laughter has always been how workers cope and fight back, but university-educated union reps now scold members for calling bosses ‘money-grabbing bastards’ and label everyday humour ‘problematic’ — this needs to be stopped, writes MARK JONES
A new report validates disabled people’s criticisms of a welfare system which, under capitalism, is designed to punish rather than support, says Dr DYLAN MURPHY
The recent report by UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese revealed the web of global corporations that prop up and profit from Israel’s genocidal policies against the Palestinian people, write UBAI AL-ABOUDI and VIJAY PRASHAD
DAVID RENTON talks to former neonazi, now anti-fascist campaigner, Matthew Collins about the costs associated with challenging bigotry and extremism, and his role in helping avert the assassination of a Labour MP in 2017
LABOUR is now in power. The New Deal for Workers, which the CWU championed through the labour movement to secure it as TUC and then Labour policy, forms the basis of important employment rights legislation revoking recent Tory anti-union laws and advancing workers’ rights, though it doesn’t go as far as we want in some areas.
At the same time, the far right are on the rise, as we saw in the big vote for Reform UK at the election, racist rioting in August and mobilisations on our streets.
The trade union movement needs to act against growing racism and fascism. We need a strategy to defeat it.
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CWU leader DAVE WARD looks at the Royal Mail takeover bid, the new deal for workers – and how the labour movement should build on it
Royal Mail CEO Simon Thompson and those like him have driven workers to this action — and if we don't all fight back, the 500-year-old postal service we rely on will not be the only institution broken up for a quick buck, writes DAVE WARD
CWU leader DAVE WARD sets out the union's vision for a different Britain
For the labour movement to get on the front foot, our starting point must be our own positive collectivist agenda, says DAVE WARD
