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UNI World Congress inspires and supports workers around the globe
Corbyn speaks at the UNI World Congress in Liverpool
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Kate Clark pays tribute to Ricardo, whose life spanned the hopes of Allende’s Chile, the horrors of military dictatorship and decades of campaigning for justice in exile
The electoral cost of Labour’s stance on Gaza is impossible to ignore – the new leadership must take heed, argues PETER LEARY
After the dismissal of union representatives and years of precarious working conditions, Kimpton Clocktower workers are drawing a line, writes THOMAS BELL
Burnham’s Makerfield triumph offers the party the opportunity to reconnect with working people, but only if it rejects business as usual, says CAROL MOCHAN MSP
KIERA MARSHALL says there is a gulf between the privileged circles in which most politicians move and the lives of working-class youth in left-behind estates – and as a newly elected Senedd member she’s determined to do something about it
PRINCE WILLIAM was in Liverpool last week and even Paul McCartney, but the city’s most important guests came with a different purpose.
Over 2,000 trade union delegates from over 110 countries came to the city to meet for the four-yearly congress of a union representing 500 trade unions and over 20 million workers.
Its theme was “Making it Happen” and it showed us all that it certainly was making it happen in eastern Europe, in Africa, in Palestine, in Latin America, with Amazon, with G4S, with DHL, with global companies and by supporting individual activists like Colombian Eric Amador for whom UNI launched a global campaign after he and his family received death threats within hours of the election of the new right-wing government.
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