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SUPPORT for a break with the European Union would soar if the Tories used membership negotiations to attack workers’ rights, a new TUC survey suggested yesterday.
The poll of over 4,000 voters showed that 55 per cent of respondents were more likely to support staying in the EU if it “did more to help working people get decent pay and conditions at work.”
But just 23 per cent said they would be more likely to back Britain’s membership if it “did more to cut red tape on businesses.”
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
MATT WRACK issues a clarion call for a rejuvenation of public services for the sake of our communities and our young people
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR