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A view of the Brexit-inspired mural by artist Banksy in Dover, Kent, 2019
BIG battles lie ahead in the fight for workers’ rights and jobs due to a Brexit deal that is “very weak” on protections, socialists have warned.
The government unveiled the deal struck with Brussels on Christmas Eve, just a week before its implementation.
Today, the Institute for Public Policy Research warned that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s post-Brexit trade deal with the EU leaves workers’ rights and environmental protections at risk of erosion and will slow Britain’s economic recovery.
As delegates meet in Brighton this week, Unison faces pressing questions about pay, organising, workers’ rights and political representation, explains ANDY CHAFFER
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
In the run-up to the Communist Party congress in November ROB GRIFFITHS outlines a few ideas regarding its participation in the elections of May 2026