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Adrian Weir
RIGHT TO STRIKE: Agency bin workers during protest, organised by Unite the Union, as they march to Council House in Victoria Square, Birmingham in December 2025
Features / 18 March 2026
18 March 2026

ADRIAN WEIR looks at the positives and negatives in the Employment Rights Act as delivered, and explains why the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom and Strike Map are rallying for a second Bill this weekend

Junior doctors on the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital, London, during their continuing dispute over pay. Picture date: Thursday June 27, 2024
Workers' Rights / 18 July 2025
18 July 2025

It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR

Features / 30 October 2023
30 October 2023
Former national policy forum member ADRIAN WEIR cites Starmer’s increasingly right-wing domestic and foreign policies that have led him to quit the party
Features / 21 March 2022
21 March 2022
Next month the certification officer will acquire a raft of new powers to fine unions for a range of ‘offences.’ ADRIAN WEIR reports
Nurse Ameera Sheikh protests outside Downing Street, London,
Features / 21 September 2020
21 September 2020
The pandemic makes the case for collective bargaining even stronger, argues ADRIAN WEIR
A man wearing a mask against the spread of the coronavirus c
Features / 20 April 2020
20 April 2020
ADRIAN WEIR surveys the prospects for a continent under continual threat of imperialist interference and destabilisation
Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan was a great supporter of the Tribune
Features / 26 September 2018
26 September 2018
The relaunch of famous socialist publication the Tribune, now a high-end magazine, shows the battle for ideas is far from over, reports ADRIAN WEIR
Haringey's council leader Claire Kober
Features / 4 February 2018
4 February 2018