The UK Prime Minister may have the regal touch in northern England, but he’s been wrong-footed on the constitutional challenges posed by the Celtic Alliance of first ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, argues KENNY MacASKILL
The latest Tory Immigration Bill will deepen the exploitation of workers
Under the government’s proposed new scheme, many migrant workers who come to Britain will in effect have no rights, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Migrant workers look for work in the window of a newsagent’s
NEIRLAY ANDRADE, a member of the Communist Party of Venezuela’s political committee, outlines her party’s position on the crisis facing the country
A look at Taylor Wimpey’s accounts shows why Labour’s market-led housing strategy won’t deliver more, cheaper homes, as promised, says SOLOMON HUGHES
DAVID HORSLEY remembers the remarkable life and death of US black revolutionary George Jackson, whose politically passionate prison letters were published as Soledad Brother
Cuban trade union federation CTC leader OSNAY MIGUEL COLINA speaks to Ben Chacko about life and work under a crippling US siege
A part of the British empire’s network of slavery, today the Caribbean island of Nevis faces a new form of exploitation in the form of crypto-colonialism, CLAUDIA WEBBE writes
Challenges from the unscrupulous misuse of AI to steal actors’ voice and physical likenesses is being met with a firm union response, writes LYNDA ROOKE
THIS week will see the second reading of the Tory government’s latest Immigration Bill. It is extremely short.
But the white paper it is meant to enact represents one of the most serious threats to all workers for decades.
The TUC and others have already raised concerns that this Bill risks limiting the rights of existing EU workers in the UK — amounting to literally millions of people — and more than a million UK citizens in the EU. It will also severely increase the rates of exploitation in work.
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