DIANE ABBOTT looks at the perilous political cul-de-sac Labour finds itself in
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It’s totally necessary that we organise together to take on the issues of the housing crisis
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
SCOTLAND is no stranger to housing activism.
This March saw the unveiling of a sculpture commemorating the legendary Glasgow radical Mary Barbour. In 1915 unscrupulous landlords were taking advantage of the wartime economy — pushing up rents as thousands of workers flocked to Glasgow’s shipyards and munitions factories.
Barbour led a 20,000-strong rent strike in what was then the British empire’s second city.
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