US-based labour and social movements authors and organisers Robert Ovetz and James Tracy interview DANIEL GROSS about his new book, Unions of Our Own: Eight Building Blocks to Change Work and the World
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After the Landslide: reasons to be fearful
From bankers’ bonuses to tax avoidance and personally trousering thousands in expenses before they even got to power, Labour’s current incarnation doesn’t fill BERNIE EVANS with hope
With his £16,000 worth of “free” clothes,” and being known to have accepted concert and match tickets, as well as hospitality worth £3,716 to watch the Epsom Derby last year at a time when he should have been planning legislation to ban all such enticement, Keir Starmer cannot see anything wrong with his behaviour. He hasn’t broken any rules, he claims, and obviously has no plans to change them.
JOHN CALLOW introduces the work of Geoffrey Trease, who placed ordinary people at the centre of his historical fiction for children, creating adventurous stories to inspire the possibilities of social change
The Isle of Wight’s Victorian holiday boom drew visitors from across Europe, including the founders of scientific socialism, writes KEITH FLETT
The campaign against the Bank of England’s ongoing theft of Venezuelan gold is gaining support across the labour movement and beyond, writes MATT WILLGRESS
Unless ministers match reform with investment, the profession and the people it serves will continue to bear the cost, says KATE RAMSDEN
Claims that Nicaragua has abolished elections followed a headline that stripped Daniel Ortega’s remarks of their historical and political context. The full speech tells a different story, says BECCA RENK FOSTER
KEIR STARMER and his supporters in the press have been keen in the last few weeks, for obvious reasons, to stress how a Labour government will change lives dramatically, with Rafael Behr in the Guardian convinced there is abundant “available evidence” suggesting Starmer will be a “transformative Labour Prime Minister.”
While there are hints of improvements for workers in Rayner’s package of reforms, sadly there is far more evidence to indicate change will be minimal.
Does the party’s kowtowing to the banks and big business really suggest things will be better for the average worker earning less than average wages and struggling to make ends meet?
Labour hasn’t even suggested windfall taxes on the massive profits banks made during the inflation crisis by immediately raising interest rates for borrowers when the Bank of England increased the base rate but kept rates low for savers.
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