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THE TUC Women’s Conference opened today, with trade unionists warning of the threat of far-right influence on workers and children.
The opening panel heard from representatives of overseas labour movements, including Cathy Feingold from US union federation AFL-CIO, who highlighted the Trump administration’s attack on women’s rights and diversity programmes.
National Education Union president Sarah Kilpatrick warned that 14 years of Tory policies had eroded education, limiting critical thinking and creative subjects and making it easier for far-right ideologies to take root.
The proscription of Palestine Action is illegitimate and unethical, say 300 Jewish people, including Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC, Mike Leigh, Michael Rosen and Gillian Slovo, in letter to Starmer
