The new Employment Rights Act is a step forward, but restoring collective bargaining and union power remains essential to tackling insecurity, outsourcing and low pay, says PAUL WHITEHOUSE
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Hate-filled words have consequences
Jo Cox’s murder should make us think long and hard about racist discourse in modern Britain, says JOANA RAMIRO
Trade unionists are mobilising to support Cuban workers and public services, amid escalating US pressure on the socialist island. RONAN OGILVY explains
The defence secretary’s resignation reveals not a split over principle but a dispute over pace of military spending, as Britain’s political Establishment unites behind deeper Nato commitments, argues NICK WRIGHT
The ceasefire may have halted the fighting for now, but years of economic warfare and recent military attacks have left millions of Iranians facing hardship and uncertainty, says Codir’s RUBEN BRETT
The struggle for Palestinian freedom has become a defining issue for everyone committed to justice, democracy and peace, says PETER LEARY ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
Unison director of organising KEVIN LUCAS explains the Organising to Win strategy, its successes to date and key tests on the union’s horizon
WE rarely think of the consequences of words. Of the true consequences of suggesting, day in, day out, that the greatest threat to our existence is religion X, or that we were better before Y.
What harm could our ill-conceived opinions, our possible ignorance, our proselytising when demanding a return to “national values” and cutting back on immigration bring? What could, in this tolerant Europe of ours, propagandising hatred and fear truly lead to?
In England — mother of liberal democracy — never questioned words led to the death of an member of Parliament.
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