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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A ‘Brexit’ would put workers in danger
Employment rights are on the line in the EU referendum – so we can’t let businesses dominate the discussion, writes FRANCES O’GRADY
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
IT’S the EU that guarantees workers their rights to paid holidays, parental leave, equal treatment for part-timers, and much, much more.
Unions campaigned hard to win these rights from the EU. Some of them resulted from direct negotiations between unions and employers at EU level. We should be proud of achievements born out of solidarity with European unions, through the ETUC.
The EU’s origins may have been a common market, but as Jacques Delors’s famous speech to the Trades Union Congress in 1988 signalled, it became something much more.
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