General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
Directing anger into a strategy for change
GAWAIN LITTLE highlights the General Federation of Trade Unions’ new education programme - to help forge the unity and strength we need to force a change of direction for Britain

OUR trade union movement faces very real challenges over the coming months and years.
We are experiencing a cost-of-living crisis not of our making. As inflation goes through the roof, profits are sky-high and the only thing not rising is our members’ wages.
Many of us work in, and all of us use, public services which have been systematically underfunded and fragmented, many subject to privatisation.
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