Privatisation is not the answer We need a proper strategy to revitalise our public services – expecting privateers to rush to the rescue is no answer to the problems in the NHS and elsewhere, warns DIANE ABBOTT MP
Sunday 14th Apr 2024 United trade union campaign for trainbuilding An emergency motion to Midlands TUC AGM seeks to save the Alstom plant at Derby, writes BILL GREENSHIELDS
Sunday 14th Apr 2024 Five demands from the Peace & Justice Project Let’s build an alternative to the misery faced by millions, says JEREMY CORBYN
Friday 12th Apr 2024 After AI: time to embrace universal basic income? As AI advances, the case for universal basic income gains traction, challenging traditional notions of labour organising while offering a viable solution to the decline in the need for work and workers, argues BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Friday 12th Apr 2024 Love of animals leads to a union organising drive Employees at Texas shelter Pets Alive joined forces with the Machinists union, seeking better conditions for both themselves and the animals they passionately care for, reports MARK GRUENBERG
Friday 12th Apr 2024 Opinion Rejecting divide-and-rule tactics against the NHS IAIN MOONEY reports on Unison members’ reaction to government proposals to put nursing staff in different pay categories
Friday 12th Apr 2024 Kenova: bringing it out of the shadows Even as Operation Kenova unveils unsettling truths, questions still remain over the role of British state actors in atrocities during the troubles in Northern Ireland — a new and deeper inquiry is needed, writes ERNEST WALKER
Friday 12th Apr 2024 Aid into Gaza: Israel’s sadistic games SOLOMON HUGHES investigates the machinations of the Israeli state and to what extent the headline ‘aid drops’ by sea and air are diversion tactics from its grim starvation plan to drive Palestinians from Gaza
Thursday 11th Apr 2024 State pensions: a diminishing ‘benefit’ under the Tories What was once common sense to both major parties – that we all pay a little of our wages to receive a pension when we are too old to work – has been viciously undermined by decades of neoliberalism, explains NICK WRIGHT
Thursday 11th Apr 2024 Gardening Rediscover the mighty marrow Previously staple of all our gardens, the neglected marrow is making a culinary comeback, offering versatile flavours and textures when picked and prepared properly – so let your courgettes live large, writes MAT COWARD
Thursday 11th Apr 2024 Chile on strike: worker anger spills over El Siglo’s Ursula Fuentes Rivera speaks to ERIC CAMPOS, the CUT (Chile’s TUC) general secretary, on the eve of the general strike