An idealistic couple of committed socialists turned a strike into a school and their working-class pupils' futures into things of value, not to be drudged out as mere serfs and wage slaves. We need their vision again today, writes GARY SMITH

GMB general secretary Gary Smith pays tribute to the Tolpuddle Martyrs — and why they're as much an inspiration for today's trade union movement as ever

Today we show that solidarity is more than just a word — it has been at the centre of all the progress we have made towards a society based on justice and at the core of our resistance to one based on greed, writes GARY SMITH

The politics of the workers is the politics of hope – and May Day reminds us of our task to turn hopes into reality, writes GMB leader GARY SMITH

Energy price rises and profiteering threaten the quality of life for millions as the result of clear injustice and inequality. The labour movement must point a way out of this debacle, writes GMB leader GARY SMITH

The proliferation of small suppliers and laissez-faire economic competition has led to the current energy crisis. State intervention is necessary – and the unions must shape it in the interests of the working class, writes GMB general secretary GARY SMITH

The government’s persistent undervaluing of the care sector has led to a surge in in-work poverty – with women particularly badly hit, says GMB leader GARY SMITH

As trade unionists lead today's marches across Britain to demand proper NHS pay rises, investment and reversal of privatisations, GARY SMITH outlines the seriousness of the Tory threat to this national asset

GARY SMITH writes on the GMB’s new direction, how the union will begin to right its past wrongs and seek to be the ‘light upon the hill’ once more

The PPE shortage scandal scratches the surface of our industrial decline, but unions can fix it, says GMB Scotland secretary GARY SMITH

An openly socialist programme with political demands is the only way for the the labour movement to regain the strength it needed to make the welfare state a reality, writes GARY SMITH

GMB Scotland secretary GARY SMITH writes that although the unions have been in decline, the last 12 months have shown the collective power we have when we fight back: let the year of Covid-19 be a turning point