The basis for 20th-century social democracy in Britain is gone, argues ANDREW MURRAY – but there are measures a Burnham government could take that would break with neoliberalism
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Phil Katz’s book on Tom Mann, abridged for the Morning Star by CHLOE MANSOLA and JASMINE NIBLETT, carries a message of solidarity from the coal miners and energy union of New South Wales, Australia. Read on to find out why
ALL FOR ONE ONE FOR ALL: (L to R) Tom Mann; Strikers during lockout, at Broken Hill, 1909, note masks were worn to impede identification
[(L to R) Public domain and State Library of New South Wales/Public domain]
TONY BURKE pays tribute to a dedicated trade unionist and true internationalist who helped organise workers from Britain to Bangladesh
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Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
TOM MANN travelled to Australia from September 1902. His union membership was now transferred to the Melbourne branch of the engineering union.
He had at the core of his thinking, class organisation in the form of trade unions. With unions at the centre of strategy, workers would exert growing power and establish influence in municipal government, co-operatives, and in legislation, through limited parliamentary action.
How could it be, he asked, in a time when wealth was greater than ever, that poverty had become endemic?
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