Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO says assessing a Labour leader whose mission was to smash the left must involve addressing the delusions that fuelled his rise
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Women at work – it’s time to make organising around pay and conditions a priority
Union equality structures need a fresh approach to break out of siloed thinking and develop women’s abilities to organise within their workplaces against exploitative employers, writes HELEN O’CONNOR
Paramedics of the GMB union protest outside Parliament on January 31 this year
Rebuilding Labour’s working-class roots and organising power is essential if the party is to recover, says MERCEDES VILLALBA
ANDREW MURRAY looks back at a damaging career marked by dishonesty, incompetence and revolting complicity in war crimes
Britain’s historic vote to leave the EU was a rejection of the political Establishment and the strategic direction pursued by Britain’s ruling class since the second world war, writes ALEX GORDON
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
ACCORDING to research by the TUC, workplaces with a predominantly female workforce, eg the NHS (77 per cent), teaching (75 per cent) or social care (82 per cent) will be disproportionately affected by the anti-strike Bill intended to enforce minimum service levels.
This means that women are more at risk of being sacked for taking strike action during disputes.
The pay gap between men and women currently stands at 14.9 per cent and women aged between 50 and 59 have the highest pay gap of 20.8 per cent.
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