A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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‘It’s no coincidence the Tories are attacking unions now – it’s because we’re winning’
Unite general secretary SHARON GRAHAM speaks to Ben Chacko about winning on pay, challenging the bosses’ narrative on inflation and driving an agenda for change
“Of those 451 disputes we’ve won 81 per cent. You don’t win everything, that’s not life, but you’ve got to win more than you lose. We’ve won 81 per cent and put £200 million back into the pockets of workers. I’m waking up every morning, the reps are waking up every morning, the officers are waking up every morning thinking: ‘How can we win?’"
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
“WE’RE at a ‘which side are you on?’ moment for the labour movement. That’s not being bullish. That’s just reality.”
Unite leader Sharon Graham sees nothing new in Liz Truss’s attempts to attack public services to enrich the richest.
“It’s the policy they’ve been peddling, frankly, for at least the last 10,11 years. This trickle-down economics, rich get richer, poor get poorer — it’s not new. It’s just now on steroids.
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