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
Uniting the trade union left
Groups in five unions are working together to build unity, write Alex Gordon (RMT Broad Left), Matt Gould (United Left in Unite), Libby Nolan & Andrea Egan (Time for Real Change in Unison), Lucy Coleman & Phil Clarke (NEU Left) Fran Heathcote & Martin Cavanagh (PCS Left Unity)
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
OVER the past year, Britain has been racked by a cost-of-living crisis which has seen working-class living standards plummet while profits go through the roof.
This is an economic crisis in which wealth is being directly transferred from the vast majority of the population to the super-rich — and the key to fighting back and protecting working-class communities is action on pay.
As socialists and trade unionists, we believe that militant, co-ordinated, union action is needed to protect workers in the workplace, to have a voice in society, and to push back against this rotten government’s plans for working people and for those that rely on public services.
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