Durham Miners’ Association chair STEPHEN GUY speaks to Ben Chacko about the Reform threat, what’s needed from Labour and why the Big Meeting will never lose its politics
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Actors on strike – why all workers should take a leaf from Hollywood’s book
If SAG-AFTRA is able to secure actors’ rights to control how their work is used by AI, it will have global repercussions for all who work in creative industries and beyond, writes TIM DAWSON
Tim Brehmer (left) and a fellow picketer dress as characters from The Mandalorian outside Disney studios on Thursday, July 20, 2023, in Burbank, California
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Andy Burnham’s message of hope will defeat Reform if Labour delivers the New Deal for Working People in full, says JOANNE THOMAS
General Federation of Trade Unions president and bakers’ union general secretary, SARAH WOOLLEY, guides us through the GFTU’s Summer School happening this week at Quorn Grange Hotel
The government’s latest asylum proposals abandon labour movement values and fuel division by aping Reform UK, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Can Andy Burnham’s programme deliver a productive economy – or merely a softer version of capitalism, asks VINCE MILLS
IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
WHAT campaigner could fail to envy the cast of A-listers that the Screen Actors Guild — American Federation of Television and Radio Artists has recruited to its cause?
Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Bacon and George Clooney have been picketing film studios or showing support for the US screenwriters’ and actors’ union.
Writers such as Lucy Prebble are able to interrupt prime-time interviews about their work (in her case the final episode of Succession) to voice their support for the strike.
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