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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Trade unions are key to Labour being a party for the many
From its foundation to today, it has been the unions that guarantee the working-class politics of the party, writes RICHARD BURGON MP
Unite members march through London as part of the TUC's campaign for a new deal for workers in May 2018
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
LAST weekend I was honoured to be the guest speaker at the biannual meeting of Unite the Union’s United Left — the left network within the UK’s largest trade union.
Addressing that meeting gave me an opportunity to reflect on the key role that the United Left, and more widely the left across the trade union movement, has played in getting us to a socialist-led Labour Party and hopefully a socialist led government.
United Left played an absolutely central role in making Unite the Union a fighting, left-led trade union. Key to that was the development of Unite’s Political Programme which Unite general secretary Len McCluskey declared was “to reclaim the Labour Party for working class values.”
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