HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
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Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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
Strike Map co-founder HENRY FOWLER discusses the significance of today’s joint union letter to video game giant Rockstar, demanding trade union recognition for its workers. Their conversation highlights how our movement can harness its collective power to rebuild union power across the private sector
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
The PM leaves office having squandered Labour’s electoral mandate and alienated its grassroots. He will not be missed, writes BRIAN LEISHMAN MP
COP26 has seen much grandstanding and hyperbole so far — plus a few welcome commitments such as Greenland ending exploration for further oil and gas fields and Colombia committing to net zero by 2050. From what I’ve seen on the inside though, solidarity has been in short supply.
And solidarity is what the world needs if we are to survive climate breakdown.
While the mainstream media focus on the warm words from Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron and even Boris Johnson — and the relative silence from China, Russia and Brazil — the pleas of those in the global South are once again being lost.
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