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Demonstrators march in the streets of Paris
FRENCH workers’ nationwide mobilisation in defence of public services and employment rights, with the promise of much more to come, deserves the unqualified solidarity of their comrades in Britain.
They are showing through their action that, unlike too many self-deceiving trade unionists here, they understand that the European Union is no Shangri-La for workers’ rights.
President Emmanuel Macron’s assault on hard-won employment conditions, especially for railway workers, and on workplace organisation mimics Margaret Thatcher’s anti-working-class campaigns in the 1980s and subsequent developments under the John Major and Tony Blair governments.
JOHN McINALLY sees little chance of change at Westminster, and calls on the left to get serious about building a real alternative
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
DENNIS BROE gives an update on the last week of anti-austerity protests against the Macron regime, which has seen the supposedly more right-leaning Gilets Jaunes join with the unions and the left
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE