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A crucial juncture for our movement
With Tory attacks on our rights, the dangers of a no-deal Brexit and rising racism in our society, it’s never been more important to stand united, says MARK SERWOTKA
Protesters in Westminster as MPs are take part in an emergency debate over a new law to block a no-deal Brexit last week
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
THIS year’s TUC will be one of the most important in many years.
The labour and trade union movement faces huge challenges, not only with the possibility of a no-deal Brexit but with our state of readiness to defend all of our members from attacks by a hard-right Tory government.
In various pockets of the economy we have been putting up a tremendous fight. In PCS we have 15 disputes around various issues, including indefinite strike action over the London living wage at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, a month’s strike action currently at the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency and repeated strikes in universal credit.
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The regional conference of the TUC North East, Yorkshire and the Humber will be looking to set the agenda for a growing, diverse trade union movement, says JAY McKENNA