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Linking up existing strike actions with demands for housing, fuel, food and decent work holds the key to rebuilding class consciousness today, argues RMT national president ALEX GORDON
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MARK JONES of Toothless in England says the devastating report from MPs on Britain’s worsening dental crisis shows we need immediate action — and explains what must be done
In the last of four extracts from her new memoir, former NUM headquarters staffer HILARY CAVE recalls the 1985 campaign in the Nottinghamshire coalfield against the breakaway unions who went on to sabotage the great strike
Israel’s number one death dealer supplying the IDF in its murderous campaigns against the Palestinians is now actively wining and dining our military top brass, looking to flog its blood-soaked wares, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
The massacre of Red Crescent and civil defence aid workers has elicited little coverage and no condemnation by major powers — this is the age of lawlessness, warns JOE GILL
Public libraries are sanctuaries which facilitate the exploration of the universe of ideas for free for those curious enough. ROGER McKENZIE advocates their protection against authoritarian incursions, US style
Trump’s recent executive order ends union rights for a large number of federal workers, citing national security concerns after some unions vowed to oppose the massive cuts proposed by the new administration, writes PEOPLE’S DISPATCH
IN THE last weeks of December 2022, Britain saw strike action by over a million workers.
Trade unions representing posties, university lecturers, rail workers, nurses, ambulance drivers, driving examiners, bus drivers, staff in the UK Border Force and at the Highways and Environment Agencies have all taken industrial action in concert with each other.
The defiant mood of striking workers standing on picket lines in sub-zero temperatures has been reinforced by a sense that they are part of a swelling movement across Britain. The organised working class is leading a national debate over what kind of a society we want to live in.
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