Since Ahmad al-Sharaa came to power in Syria, the Damascus government has been given carte blanche to use maximum force against any threat to its continued rule, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Workers’ representation in Mexico
TONY BURKE explains how unions are progressing in the North American country
Keir Starmer’s hiring Tim Allan from Tory-led Strand Partners is another illustration of Labour’s corporate-influence world where party differences matter less than business connections, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE
The truth will out: we are here to unveil the full scale of the government’s complicity in genocide and to hold it to account for the monstrous bloodshed in Palestine, writes JEREMY CORBYN
As the Alliance of Sahel States and southern African nations advance pan-African goals, the African Union must listen and learn rather than parroting the Western line on these positive developments, writes ROGER McKENZIE
KEITH BENNETT reflects on witnessing the grand parade in Beijing marking the 80th anniversary of China’s Victory Day, which impressively showcased advanced military technology
MEXICAN and US unions are making great strides in winning union recognition by using the rapid response clauses in the new United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) for workers — winning representation by independent trade unions for workers who want to kick out yellow unions which back employers and hold down pay and working conditions.
Shamefully, US and European companies have hidden behind the discredited Mexican labour laws to keep independent unions out of their companies in order to maintain compliant workforces undermining US workers’ wages and making it easy for US and Canadian companies to move jobs into low-tax, low-pay areas of Mexico.
Yellow unions such as the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM) have a history of collusion in dismissing independent union reps and ignoring the wishes of the workforce.
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