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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Essex is ready for a Labour revival
Long the home of the ‘working-class Tory’ stereotype, the recent stagnation of the Thatcherite dream means Essex could soon be a Labour heartland, writes LIAM BARRETT
BREAKING NEW GROUND: Corbyn talks to members of a social enterprise for the long-term unemployed in Tilbury, Essex
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
THE year is 2019 and Thatcher’s fiscal policies of the 1980s has continued to have detrimental effects on the Essex towns she once sought to fight for.
The right-to-buy scheme, enabling council house tenants to take ownership of their property with a discounted price, was a huge score for many Essex voters who once saw the Labour Party as their natural choice.
What followed was lower taxation and control of inflation, advantageous for many former inhabitants of east London, who travelled across the Essex landscape with hope for a more suburban lifestyle.
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