A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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Announcing the launch of Organise Now!
We need a permanent advisory service for people new to the union movement who want to organise their workplace, argue SARAH WOOLLEY, ROBERT POOLE, HENRY FOWLER and JAMIE WOODCOCK
UNITED WE STAND: Communication Workers Union (CWU) picket line at Royal Mail Whitechapel Delivery Office in east London - more than 100,000 workers are on picket lines outside delivery officers outside the country, August 31 2022
by the Greater Manchester Workers’ and Tenants’ Association
The US relationship with Israel has evolved into a strategic liability, argues RAMZY BAROUD
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
OVER the summer we have seen thousands of workers take to the picket lines to fight for decent pay, safe conditions and to fight for dignity. For once our TV screens have been filled with comrades such as Eddie Dempsey, Mick Lynch and Dave Ward telling journalists, in no uncertain terms, that the unions will stand up for the rights of their members and for workers across the country.
As “the summer of solidarity” draws to a close we head now towards an autumn of action. We are going to see even more strike action from rail workers, postal workers and communications workers — and we have got even more to come with firefighters, nurses and teachers being balloted too.
They are realising that Liz Truss doesn’t have any answers for them, Keir Starmer doesn’t have an answer for them either, and they are saying “We aren’t going to wait for Westminster any longer.”
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