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An era of change at the National Union of Journalists
After 25 years on the NUJ executive, union stalwart ANITA HALPIN is retiring. Here she looks back on the fight over the years alongside three general secretaries who’ve all made their mark
From Global Counsel to Arden, SOLOMON HUGHES finds firms linked to discredited politicians are still calling the shots in Britain
KEVIN COURTNEY explains why Reform UK is no friend to workers or trade unions, but just another party of the super-rich
EMMA DENT COAD explains why she is stepping down from the council after 20 years and how the legacy of the fire still haunts the area
While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Researchers PAUL HOLDEN and JESSICA MURRAY are calling for whistleblowers and documentary records to uncover how Labour Together helped build the parliamentary majority that now dominates the Labour Party
IF YOU ask trade unionists and, indeed, the general public today about the National Union of Journalists you will probably get a very different answer from the one you would have got 25 years ago when I was elected to the union’s national executive council.
During the 1970s the union had achieved strong organisation across the print media, not least of which was a pre-entry closed shop in a national magazine group.
But times “they were a-changing.” I joined the NUJ in 1979 — the same year that Margaret Thatcher became prime minister, an event that set the arena for our battles ahead.
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