The Milburn review presents itself as a plan to help young people into work, but Dr DYLAN MURPHY argues it is laying the groundwork for a harsher benefits regime
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Should Britain Leave the EU?
This anti-democratic alliance actively impedes the labour movement and prevents it from articulating a radical agenda, writes Roger Dunn
Campaigners from across the continent will gather in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services, write MAGGIE SIMPSON and BOB ORAM of No Cold War Britain
National co-ordinator for General Strike 100, HENRY FOWLER, continues his nationwide tour of partner organisations by visiting the Modern Records Centre at Warwick University
GEOFF BOTTOMS recalls meeting Fidel Castro in the ’90s after joining a Pastors for Peace caravan to Cuba, and reflects on how international support is still vital to help the island withstand economic warfare
The Ivors Academy’s hike in entry fees could turn this respected peer-assessed event into an exclusive preserve for those wealthy enough to compete, warns BEN LUNN
Peter Murrell’s weakness for the allure of prestige goods is symptomatic of modern consumer culture, says MATT KERR
British trade unions can be forgiven for having clung to the idea that the European Union is a positive force, a source of valuable jobs and work rights. The idea of "Social Europe" and the raft of legislation in which it was embodied appeared at exactly the time that British trade unions were facing a brutal frontal assault from a government bent on their destruction and manufacturing was haemorrhaging jobs. The Working Time Directive, TUPE, the part-time workers equal treatment directive and other initiatives from the Commission seemed and to some extent were bulwarks against some of the worst excesses of unleashed British bosses and Tory governments.
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