Falling short of what was promised: many of the new rights in the Employment Rights Bill have defects or escape loopholes that all need addressing, writes LORD JOHN HENDY KC

The Star publishes the Karl Marx Graveside Oration delivered by Lord JOHN HENDY KC at Highgate Cemetery on Sunday, on behalf of the Marx Memorial Library

LORD JOHN HENDY KC explains how the events of ’84-5 were an ideological assault unleashed on the working class in revenge for gains of the ’70s

The government’s response to the cost-of-living crisis is nothing short of class war. Workers can’t be expected to take these attacks lying down, says LORD JOHN HENDY QC

It’s the steady erosion of collective bargaining over a number of years that has led workers’ pay to fall, while employers’ profits continue to rise, says LORD JOHN HENDY QC in the first of a two-part article series

Instead of these weak and often unclear proposals from the government, we needed unions themselves to be put back into the heart of negotiations and given the freedom to defend their members, writes LORD JOHN HENDY QC

After 42 years of anti-union legislation, we urgently need a restoration of the freedom of unions to defend their members, argues LORD JOHN HENDY QC

As well as cracking down on protest generally, the right to picket a workplace effectively during a strike is clearly targetted by this new draconian legislation, explains LORD JOHN HENDY QC

LORD JOHN HENDY QC presents a Bill that aims to create the single legal category of 'worker' to give all those who work for a wage the same statutory rights as recognised employees