The Milburn review presents itself as a plan to help young people into work, but Dr DYLAN MURPHY argues it is laying the groundwork for a harsher benefits regime
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The trade union movement must begin to actively co-ordinate strike action
Amid a spiralling cost-of-living crisis, unions must show unity in order to exert the largest possible force, says RMT general secretary MICK LYNCH
RMT general secretary, Mick Lynch, on a picket line outside Euston station in London, June 2022
Campaigners from across the continent will gather in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services, write MAGGIE SIMPSON and BOB ORAM of No Cold War Britain
National co-ordinator for General Strike 100, HENRY FOWLER, continues his nationwide tour of partner organisations by visiting the Modern Records Centre at Warwick University
GEOFF BOTTOMS recalls meeting Fidel Castro in the ’90s after joining a Pastors for Peace caravan to Cuba, and reflects on how international support is still vital to help the island withstand economic warfare
The Ivors Academy’s hike in entry fees could turn this respected peer-assessed event into an exclusive preserve for those wealthy enough to compete, warns BEN LUNN
Peter Murrell’s weakness for the allure of prestige goods is symptomatic of modern consumer culture, says MATT KERR
THIS year’s TUC finds a trade union movement renewed, confident and most importantly, unafraid to flex its industrial muscle.
The cost-of-living crisis has escalated, with rapidly rising inflation, runaway energy prices and continued suppression of wages.
As a result, unions have started to ballot their members over pay, jobs and working conditions. And in many cases have either won disputes or begun to take industrial action.
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