While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
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The great fightback against austerity has begun
So much more is at stake in the rail workers’ dispute than the livelihoods of the RMT's 80,000 members — we may well be witnessing the struggle that will end not only this government, but the austerity era itself, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Members of the RMT picket at the entrance to Waverley Station in Edinburgh
NICK WRIGHT continues his series analysing the trends in European politics
We have the alternative economics, histories of our struggles and the confidence to change the world
General Federation of Trade Unions assistant general secretary HENRY FOWLER reports on the final day from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON
Treating the Clacton by-election as a joke risks reinforcing the Reform leader’s claim to be the victim of an out-of-touch Establishment, argues JOHN McINALLY
MPs and others called for the urgent release of tortured Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, held hostage by Israel and reportedly near death, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
AS THE late, great Bob Crow said: “If you fight you won’t always win. But if you don’t fight you will always lose.” Now, as current RMT general secretary Mick Lynch points out, his members accepted a wage freeze three years ago and two years ago but when they were offered zero again this year, plus far worse terms and conditions they decided enough was enough.
This sums up the experience of most workers not just over three years but ever since austerity was introduced by the Tory-led coalition in 2010. People’s budgets and their patience has been stretched to breaking point. Many just refuse to shoulder the financial burden of a crisis they did not create.
The same is true for millions of workers in the public sector including NHS workers and teachers but is also true of other transport workers and millions in the private sector. They simply cannot tolerate further attacks on their living standards.
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