The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture
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MARK SERWOTKA, of civil servants’ union PCS, calls for an end to the ongoing ‘wage restraint’ that sees workers plunged into poverty at a time when there are more billionaires in this country than ever before
FOR THE WORKERS: Mark Serwotka speaks at a May Day rally in 2017
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
MILLIONS of people are facing unimaginable hardship, the likes of which we thought were consigned to the past — but instead of helping them, the Tories are indulging themselves in the grotesque spectacle of a leadership contest.
People have simply had enough and it’s trade unions who are spearheading the fightback.
We’re determined to win for our members because it’s hard to overstate how bleak things are and how much worse they’ll get.
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