A day of strike action is set to be unleashed today, against tax injustice, attacks on pensions and the anti-democratic manoeuvrings of Macron, writes BILL GREENSHIELDS
Labour’s fightback starts in Midlothian
Danielle Rowley, who became an MP for Midlothian by overturning an SNP majority of almost 10,000, spoke to Conrad Landin in Westminster about Parliament itself and Labour’s future north of the border
Once again, working people have been betrayed with false promises about jobs in an industry that is actually making climate change worse, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The UN is not only in need of structural change, a fundamental mindset revolution is also required – and it’s China that points the way with its Global Governance Initiative, argues ROGER McKENZIE
The far right feels comfortable openly saying the most racist, extreme things imaginable and harassing left events in ways unseen in living memory — we desperately need an anti-fascist Labour Party to replace the current appeasement regime, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR
My time working on the Stephen Lawrence campaign taught me a lot about how racism festers in alienation and ignorance — I know first-hand why educators, especially people of colour, must lead the fight against race hate, argues MARC WADSWORTH
SOME had written off William Ewart Gladstone by 1878. Four years previously, he faced an upset in an election of his own choosing, as Theresa May would 143 years later.
But by 1880 Gladstone had sailed back into Downing Street after a series of fiery speeches attacking the Benjamin Disraeli government’s support for the Ottoman Empire.
Widely considered as the first modern political campaign, Gladstone’s operation was named after the constituency he was contesting for the first time, and went down in history as the Midlothian Campaign.
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