A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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President-elect of the National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers ALEX GORDON on why workers face the struggle of a generation
by the Greater Manchester Workers’ and Tenants’ Association
The US relationship with Israel has evolved into a strategic liability, argues RAMZY BAROUD
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
AS Boris Johnson’s crony regime descends into a vortex of chaotic self-destruction, RMT general secretary Mick Lynch has issued a warning to transport workers that the Tory government is using the Covid crisis as a smokescreen to launch a multifaceted attack on working people.
On successive weekends before Christmas, RMT train drivers employed by London Underground (LU) defended their collective agreements and working arrangements by taking strike action to protect their work-life balance.
Our members across LU will soon be voting to defend their pension scheme from a smash-and-grab raid by the London mayor at the behest of the Treasury.
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