From left to right: Richard Burgon, Labour MP for Leeds East; Sam Browse from Labour Assembly Against Austerity; Holly Turner, campaigner from NHS Workers Say No, and Asad Rehman, War on Want director
ACTIVISTS and trade unionists must resist the cops inside our heads if we are ever to defeat the Tories’ attacks on our hard-won democratic rights, a meeting at The World Transformed (TWT) festival heard today.
Holly Turner, a nurse and activist with the NHS Workers Say No campaign, made the call on a panel focused on how the left should push back against the government’s anti-strike and anti-protest laws.
“A lot of the anti-trade union laws that we have been internalised,” she told the audience at the left-wing festival running alongside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.
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