While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
Rank-and-file organising and the strike wave
SHABBIR LAKHA introduces an upcoming conference looking at turning the past year's explosion of industrial unrest and massive public support into political victories for the working class
Members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) on the picket line outside HMRC in East Kilbride during a strike in the long-running civil service dispute over pay, jobs and conditions, May 10, 2023
NICK WRIGHT continues his series analysing the trends in European politics
We have the alternative economics, histories of our struggles and the confidence to change the world
General Federation of Trade Unions assistant general secretary HENRY FOWLER reports on the final day from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON
Treating the Clacton by-election as a joke risks reinforcing the Reform leader’s claim to be the victim of an out-of-touch Establishment, argues JOHN McINALLY
MPs and others called for the urgent release of tortured Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, held hostage by Israel and reportedly near death, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
OVER the course of the last year, hundreds of thousands of workers have taken strike action in the biggest wave of industrial struggle in a generation. A year ago, the RMT began a national strike on the railways, followed by postal workers, teachers, civil servants, nurses, lecturers, junior doctors and more.
An estimated 2.42 million working days were lost to strike action between June and December 2022 — 556,000 working days were lost in March 2023 alone.
This Saturday, hundreds of workers from across unions will be coming together at the How We Fight, How We Win Rank-and-File Organising Conference to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the strike wave, the kind of strategy we need to win, and the politics of the movement. It will be a key opportunity for workers at the base of the trade unions to get organised and make sure we fight to win.
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