DIANE ABBOTT looks at the perilous political cul-de-sac Labour finds itself in
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No return to the failed ‘centrist’ policies of warmed-over neoliberalism
DAVE WARD says the Employment Rights Act can be a platform to build back union power — but only if we can agree a common agenda
A new strategy from the Together Alliance links the fight against racism to the wider struggle over austerity and inequality, says BILL GREENSHIELDS
Linking the General Strike 1926 to the struggles of workers today. General Strike 100 national co-ordinator HENRY FOWLER reflects on his recent visit to the Bristol Radical History Festival
LYNNE WALSH reports from the Bristol Radical History Festival, where the defiant tradition of resistance shaped by ordinary people was centre stage
A new wave of austerity is being prepared, and it’s workers who will be expected to pay for it, warns MICHAEL BURKE
IN THE heady days that followed David Cameron’s ill-fated referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union, it rapidly became clear that Britain stood on the brink of epochal political change.
For trade unionists demanding an end to public spending cuts and wage freezes, the Brexit vote let the genie of popular revolt out of the neoliberal bottle.
Trades council delegates meeting this weekend to debate and discuss the issues facing trade unionists in 2018 should be confident and filled with hope that Britain stands ready to sweep away Tory austerity, anti-trade union laws and foodbanks and replace them with a Labour government that will renationalise mail, rail and energy companies, invest in public services and the NHS.
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