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Thompsons: 100 years of the workers’ counsel
Trade union law firm Thompsons is marking its centenary. PETER LAZENBY speaks to chief executive CLARE MELLOR and former Thompsons lawyer turned MP RICHARD BURGON about a century of fighting for the rights of workers
From Global Counsel to Arden, SOLOMON HUGHES finds firms linked to discredited politicians are still calling the shots in Britain
KEVIN COURTNEY explains why Reform UK is no friend to workers or trade unions, but just another party of the super-rich
EMMA DENT COAD explains why she is stepping down from the council after 20 years and how the legacy of the fire still haunts the area
While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Researchers PAUL HOLDEN and JESSICA MURRAY are calling for whistleblowers and documentary records to uncover how Labour Together helped build the parliamentary majority that now dominates the Labour Party
“THEY make the laws to chain us well” is a line in a song written by singer-songwriter Leon Rosselson about the radical Diggers who established a socialist community at St George’s Hill in Surrey in 1649 after the English civil war.
Rosselson’s words expressed a political recognition reached by the Diggers’ leader Gerard Winstanley more than 350 years ago — that laws are used as a tool by the rich and powerful to control and exploit workers and the masses.
Winstanley declared his views more than 350 years ago, but they are apposite today.
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