The Starmer project is going up in smoke – but if the left cannot swiftly build a viable alternative, the country faces the grim reality of a hard-right takeover, says ANDREW MURRAY
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We need politicians to admit there is another way to tackle the energy crisis
Can coal be part of the solution to tackling climate change, asks CHRIS KITCHEN, general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers
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POA general secretary STEVE GILLAN argues that while Labour’s 2025 Act was a step forward, a second wave of legislation is vital to restore the fundamental right to strike and end the exploitation of prison officers
Mehmet Turkmen, president of Birtek-Sen, has been cleared of criminal charges after speaking out against the high rate of workplace injuries and deaths in Gaziantep’s textile and carpet industry. OZLEM TEMENA reports
Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
Over 30 years since apartheid was abolished, nasty anti-migrant rhetoric sweeps the corporate media. The Commnunist Party is ready to fight back, says ROGER McKENZIE
FRED BAYER says the cuts to the congress cycle could be disastrous for the Scottish trade union movement
WE ALL know that climate change has and will continue to affect us all, and that politicians say that to avoid a climate disaster we must reduce CO2 emissions to net zero.
We all know that closing the British coalmining industry and coal-fired power stations was not a magnanimous act to combat climate change.
It was a politically motivated vendetta against the miners, their communities and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), the consequences of which we are now paying for through our ever-increasing energy bills.
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