IAN LAVERY MP says an immediate focus on raising wages and reducing costs must be part of a strategy to show Labour can deliver for workers again
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Workers gather in Southport to plan and prepare
LYNN COLLINS salutes the TUC North West on a year of saved fire stations and city-wide employment charters – but much is left to do
TUC North West regional secretary Lynn Collins
Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
World Peace Council president PALLAB SENGUPTA assesses the challenges facing the international peace movement and sends greetings to the Liberation AGM
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
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
WHEN I came to work for the TUC in 2013 one of the first conversations I had with our general secretary was about the upcoming 150th anniversary of the TUC, and how the north-west could provide a focus for the celebrations of trade unionism.
In June last year, the movement marked that anniversary and in Manchester, a week-long programme of events shone a light on what we have achieved and where we are going next.
As we host our 2019 conference in Southport, we remain committed to winning for workers across the north-west. Our work in the past twelve months should give us encouragement. Across the region we have seen unions mobilising in workplaces and communities, taking industrial action and winning. There would be too many to mention but notable highlights include RMT members at Northern and Merseyrail, McDonald’s workers, hospitality workers winning on tips and NHS workers in Wigan winning on pay.
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