Trade unions need to step up and force a turn in the policies of the labour movement to effectively confront the far-right threat, argues NICK WRIGHT
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Solidarity with BA workers – their fight affects us all
RICHARD BURGON MP argues that we need to fight to stop BA’s attacks on workers’ pay and conditions becoming a blueprint for the whole economy
BA plans to fire its 42,000 staff and rehire them on inferior contracts
As the 90th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish civil war is marked, Teesside campaigners will gather to remember the local men and women who stood against fascism, explains TONY FOX
Whatever differences exist among international sympathisers of the Bolivarian revolution about its current trajectory, they should unite against the imperialist power that is the source of an enforced retreat, argues ROGER D HARRIS
Washington’s inability to subjugate Iran is an example of how it is trying to preserve a regional order that no longer exists, argues RAMZY BAROUD
US financial instability is exposing the limits of a dollar-dominated global economy — and giving the Global South a historic chance to build an alternative, says MURAD QURESHI
Deprivation is a fundamental factor in criminal behaviour that must be addressed but, KENNY MacASKILL argues, there needs to a major rethink in sentencing to tackle overcrowding
AN economic crisis is on its way that will not only be far greater than the global banking crisis of 2008 but one that many experts fear could be comparable with the Great Depression of the 1930s.
In that context, in the best traditions of the shock doctrine of disaster capitalism, there will be some in the economic and political establishment who see an opportunity to reshape and rebalance things even further in their favour.
In the world of work this will mean attacks on jobs, pay and terms and conditions, hitting working-class living standards hard.
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