A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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Scholars and researchers sign open letter in support of Labour's much-needed employment law reforms
The Labour Party is the only party with a transformative plan to create jobs that offer security, fair pay and dignity at work, as well as an economy that works for the many
Jeremy Corbyn and shadow employment rights minister Laura Pidcock
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
BRITAIN’S labour laws are in desperate need of reform. Working people are increasingly engaged in work that pays poorly, is insecure and contains few avenues of redress if they are treated unfairly by their employers.
In-work poverty is at a record high. In the large majority of families in poverty (60 per cent) there is at least one person in work.
The current government boasts about record low unemployment figures while at the same time it fails to protect workers from poverty pay and insecurity.
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