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A VICTORY against privatisation plans at the National Gallery could give hope to thousands of trade unionists fighting Tory austerity, a mass rally in London heard this weekend.
Artists including Patrick Brill (known as Bob and Roberta Smith) and Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger paid tribute to the “inspirational” strike of PCS union members at the gallery, which is fighting to plans to outsource 400 staff to a private company.
Hundreds of union activists gathered just metres away from the building in Trafalgar Square to demonstrate public support for the dispute.
In the final part of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explains how in 2018, after years spent rebuilding the PCS into a leading force against austerity, a damaging rupture emerged from within the union’s own left wing
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
