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GMB Scotland secretary GARY SMITH writes that although the unions have been in decline, the last 12 months have shown the collective power we have when we fight back: let the year of Covid-19 be a turning point
British Gas workers outside the Scottish Gas call centre in Edinburgh in January 2021
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
IT HAS been a year like no other — and a wretched one at that for millions of working people. The Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked a devastating trail of sickness and death in our communities. It has isolated us from our loved ones and has fundamentally challenged almost every aspect of our everyday lives.
Although the vaccination programme is being rolled out quickly and efficiently by the NHS, it is clear that we are going to be living with the effects of this virus for the foreseeable future.
The impact of Covid-19 on the world of work has been dramatic. What the pandemic has ruthlessly exposed are the many underlying weaknesses in our economy and workplaces after a decade of disastrous ideologically driven austerity.
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Working-class women lead the fight for fair work and equitable pay and against sexual harassment, the rise of the far right and years of failed austerity policies, writes ROZ FOYER
As extremist hate spreads and disillusion deepens, the labour movement must offer more than resistance — it must offer a future, writes MATT WRACK, general secretary of NASUWT – The Teachers’ Union
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street