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A new push on anti-racism in the unions: will it succeed?
The TUC Anti-Racism Taskforce promises a renewed campaign that will ‘listen to black workers’ — this is good, but many of the suggestions and proposals have been waiting to be enacted for decades, writes ROGER McKENZIE
PICKING TARGETS: The ARTF has proposed organising strategies for workplaces where black workers are more likely to be employed
Argentinians commemorated the 50th anniversary of the military dictatorship that left 30,000 people killed or ‘disappeared.’ BERT SCHOUWENBURG reports
In Voices of Scotland YANA PETTICREW looks at the crippling deterioration of working-class art provision and support
As weapons return to Suffolk and defence spending soars, London CND is pressing local candidates to oppose nuclear expansion and support the UN ban treaty. SALLY SPIERS explains
One hundred years on from Britain’s only general strike, socialists will gather in London at the Morning Star’s annual conference to discuss how organised labour can once again become the engine of radical change. Editor BEN CHACKO encourages readers to come along and join the debate
In the year following Peterloo a mass strike erupted into armed revolt as Scotland’s workers demanded their rights, yet this uprising remains largely absent from popular history, writes KENNY MacASKILL
DO black workers want special treatment? It is a question guaranteed to make me bristle.
It is a lot like the “where are you really from” question of recent infamy which, sadly, is nothing new to many black people.
The question of special treatment often raises its ugly head as a reaction to whatever the latest report is on the conditions facing black workers and the newly found intention to do something about the racism we face.
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