A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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Working-class unity and the new deal: the next steps
Communications Workers Union general secretary DAVE WARD says combatting a resurgent far right means uniting the working class behind a positive vision for change – with collective bargaining at its heart
Communication Workers Union (CWU) general secretary Dave Ward (centre) joins postal workers on the picket line at the Camden Town Delivery Office in north west London, November 24, 2022
by the Greater Manchester Workers’ and Tenants’ Association
The US relationship with Israel has evolved into a strategic liability, argues RAMZY BAROUD
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
LABOUR is now in power. The New Deal for Workers, which the CWU championed through the labour movement to secure it as TUC and then Labour policy, forms the basis of important employment rights legislation revoking recent Tory anti-union laws and advancing workers’ rights, though it doesn’t go as far as we want in some areas.
At the same time, the far right are on the rise, as we saw in the big vote for Reform UK at the election, racist rioting in August and mobilisations on our streets.
The trade union movement needs to act against growing racism and fascism. We need a strategy to defeat it.
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