While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
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Unions at the crossroads: time to flex our muscles
GAWAIN LITTLE urges the labour movement to seize a historic opportunity under the new government, warning that failure to push for real change now could spell disaster for workers and fuel the far-right threat
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NICK WRIGHT continues his series analysing the trends in European politics
We have the alternative economics, histories of our struggles and the confidence to change the world
General Federation of Trade Unions assistant general secretary HENRY FOWLER reports on the final day from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON
Treating the Clacton by-election as a joke risks reinforcing the Reform leader’s claim to be the victim of an out-of-touch Establishment, argues JOHN McINALLY
MPs and others called for the urgent release of tortured Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, held hostage by Israel and reportedly near death, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
AS we debate in this year’s TUC Congress — the workers’ parliament — our trade union movement is at a watershed moment.
With the election of a new Labour government just two months ago, after 14 years of Conservative-led governments that have attacked our living standards, broken our public services and further deindustrialised our economy, we face huge opportunities.
These opportunities are further enhanced by the commitment of the incoming government to introduce a number of positive individual rights for workers and also collective rights for workers and their unions, including repeal of the 2023 and 2016 anti-union laws, introducing electronic and workplace balloting rights, and a limited statutory framework for sectoral collective bargaining.
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HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
HENRY FOWLER outlines the GFTU’s new 2026-27 education programme and argues that investing in trade union education is essential to building worker power, developing leaders and strengthening collective action
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