We can't move forward as a progressive society, until we break away from our neoliberal past, says CHRIS WILLIAMSON
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TUC Congress 2015: We're ready for the battle of our lives
FRANCES O'GRADY tells the Star the TUC and the hundreds of thousands of workers it represents won’t take a bad Bill lying down
Why did so many self-described progressives respond to an anti-semitic attack by questioning the victims, asks JULIA BARD
Austerity is breaking the education system. We must unite to save our schools and pay our teachers properly, says NEU national president ED HARLOW
A nationwide mobilisation signals growing resistance to the far right, but lasting change will depend on deep organising in every corner of society, writes GAWAIN LITTLE
Marx’s early lectures on economics, together with Engels’s additions, provide a valuable introduction to Marxist political economy today, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Art matters because stories, herstories, histories, and even flights of fancy matter, posits MATT KERR
Interview by Joana Ramiro
FRANCES LORRAINE O’GRADY stands up from her desk and comes to greet me. She tells me she remembers me from the last time we met, at last year’s Trades Union Congress (TUC) “Britain needs a pay rise” demonstration. Last time we met we took a picture together. I said she was “amazeballs.” I hope she doesn’t remember that.
O’Grady is the first female leader of the TUC. The first thing you notice about her is that she fully in control of her environment. After 10 years as the organisation’s deputy general secretary and now two at the helm, she knows her unions in and out.
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