The General Strike exposed the power of the working class — and the limits of its leadership, writes Dr DYLAN MURPHY
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Striking to halt the Tory Great Train Robbery
RMT members taking industrial action to defend rail jobs and services against rampant profiteering by private monopolies are standing up for us all, writes RMT president, ALEX GORDON
DEFENDING SERVICES: RMT general secretary Mick Lynch on a picket line outside Euston station in London last month
HENRY FOWLER, General Strike 100 national co-ordinator, continued his nationwide tour of partner organisations, joining the National Day of Celebration in Barnsley. The event was organised by Unite for a Workers Economy (Unite the Union), the Durham Miners Association, and the National Union of Mineworkers
ADRIAN WEIR charts the intercontinental trade union solidarity with Cuba and its desperate predicament
DIANE ABBOTT looks at the perilous political cul-de-sac Labour finds itself in
DAVE WARD says the Employment Rights Act can be a platform to build back union power — but only if we can agree a common agenda
A new strategy from the Together Alliance links the fight against racism to the wider struggle over austerity and inequality, says BILL GREENSHIELDS
AMERICAN writer Mark Twain satirised 19th-century oligarchs JP Morgan and John D Rockefeller as “robber barons” of the new “Gilded Age.”
Tory Britain in 2022 feels increasingly like a Mark Twain novel. Just not as funny.
Today, private utility giants levy tolls on customers safe in the knowledge that generous donations to their sponsored politicians will see off any short-term temptation to tax their windfall profits.
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