FRAN HEATHCOTE believes that while the the Chancellor outlined some positive steps, the government does not appreciate the scale of the cost-of-living crisis affecting working-class people, whose lives are blighted by endemic low pay
PCS members have had enough of being exploited and disrespected
We must unite as never before, defending public services for workers, for service users and for claimants alike, writes PCS national president FRAN HEATHCOTE
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is pouring €11.5bn into the Kiev swamp, blocking Trump’s peace plan, and pushing Nato right up to Russia’s borders – no matter if it costs hundreds of thousands of lives, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
The 2025 Budget shores up the PM’s political position with headline-grabbing welfare U-turns, but with no improvements on offer to declining public services or living standards, writes MICHAEL BURKE
The unifying victory of Irish progressive forces in the presidential campaign should be a salutary lesson to the left in this country, argues MARY GRIFFITHS CLARKE
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
A November 15 protest in Mexico – driven by a right-wing social-media operation – has been miscast as a mass uprising against President Sheinbaum. In reality, the march was small, elite-backed and part of a wider attempt to sow unrest, argues DAVID RABY
PCS MEMBERS have won a historic victory in our recent ballot — one that follows an extremely successful period of targeted action in places like the Border Force, the Rural Payments Agency, the Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency and some jobcentres facing closure.
This has resulted in thousands of new joiners and unprecedented press coverage, and we’ve now called all member action today, February 1, alongside a number of other unions, as well as endorsing further plans for lots more targeted action.
At the moment, the government says that there is no more money, but that could change quickly as they see the sheer strength of feeling from so many workers coming together.
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