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Saving the high street from a no-deal Brexit
Usdaw general secretary PADDY LILLIS sets out the union's agenda for Labour’s conference
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MARY ADOSSIDES of the London May Day Organising Committee calls on all to join the traditional march from Clerkenwell Green, which will bring together countless international workers’ organisations in a statement against the far right
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Mountains of research show that online hardcore material harms children by direct exposure and often indirectly - by those men porn inspires. Yet there are still no simple measures like age and content regulation in place, writes JOHN GREEN
We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
Trump’s economic adviser has exposed the actual strategy: forcing other countries to provide financial support for US world hegemony
Activist Angie Zelter has been arrested more than a hundred times. She’s not stopping now, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
THIS year I am leading a delegation of Usdaw members to the annual Labour Party conference in Brighton.
Right now, we have a reckless, incompetent Tory government, led by a habitual liar. A government intent on dismantling our welfare state, stripping back our employment rights and cutting our public services back to the bone.
A government so obsessed with delivering Brexit at any cost, that it will ignore the rule of law and drag the country off a cliff to get there. So it is crucial that working people’s voices are heard above all the noise and chaos.
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