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
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The Women Chainmakers’ Festival is back
LEE BARRON, secretary for the TUC Midlands region, argues that the 10-week strike carried out by women workers in the Black Country in 1910 deserves to be as well-known in the labour movement as the Tolpuddle Martyrs
Macarthur addressing the crowds during the chainmakers’ strike, Cradley Heath 1910
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
THE TUC’s Women Chainmakers’ Festival returns in person this Saturday after a two-year break due to the Covid pandemic.
The event was the first trade union festival dedicated to female trade unionists. It is an event that we are tremendously proud of.
The chainmakers were the midwives of the modern trade union movement and deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as the Tolpuddle Martyrs.
The chainmaking industry employed thousands of Black Country women in the early 20th century. Working conditions were atrocious and pay was pitiful.
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