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Resist Tory attacks on trade unions!
The call for free trade unions is an essential part of resistance to the Tory government and against austerity, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE
CWU members on the picketline
The new TUC Cymru general secretary speaks to Morning Star Wales reporter David Nicholson about her trade union background and ambitions for the movement
The Claudia Sheinbaum government is no pushover and is holding firm despite US abuses of the relationship, says DAVID RABY
As we approach the grim anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, SIMON BARROW sounds the alarm over the dangerous and murderous direction our government is heading
The new PM may offer more of the same, but early signs on his housing policies look promising, says GLYNN ROBBINS
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Burnham’s U-turn on tackling greedy landlords has let the country down
THIS year is the 50th anniversary of the Pentonville Five — dockers from east London who were jailed in 1972 for their part in defying the anti-union laws introduced by the Conservative then government of Edward Heath.
The five were freed by the mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of workers who struck and demonstrated in their support and the subsequent threat by the TUC to call a general strike if the five were not released. Faced with such a broad array of forces the government backed down and the five were freed.
Today we’re in different days and with different customs — but at heart Conservatives don’t fundamentally change. In between partying and extravagantly redecorating the flat at No 10, Boris Johnson did manage to do a small amount of work in his time as prime minister.
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