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‘Let’s have no more ‘buts’ today’ – how the battle for the national minimum wage was won
The Star reprints here RODNEY BICKERSTAFFE’S landmark speech to TUC conference, moving a composite motion on low pay, on Wednesday September 3 1986
JOHN McINALLY sees little chance of change at Westminster, and calls on the left to get serious about building a real alternative
With the centenary of the UN Slavery Convention upon us, ROGER McKENZIE argues much needs to be done to rid us of all its contemporary manifestations
SEVIM DAGDELEN says European Nato states are escalating ever closer to direct conflict with a nuclear power, and sacrificing welfare states built up over a century to finance it
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the horrific price British patients will pay for this NHS deal is now clear — and there’s time to get out of it, if MPs will only force the issue
KENNY MacASKILL says the lines between party, government and Civil Service in Scotland have been blurred and we need a thorough investigation into how
IT IS make your mind up time. It has been a long hard struggle, a long hard road, but here we are at last on the brink of an historic decision, not just for the working poor in our society but for the trade union movement as well,
I need no-one to talk to me about being patient just a little longer.
I need no-one to try to find another excuse for doing nothing for the eight million low-paid in our society.
Don’t talk to me about justice, equality, fraternity and in the same breath deny hope to those who toil amid exploitation in Thatcher’s Britain.
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