The new Employment Rights Act is a step forward, but restoring collective bargaining and union power remains essential to tackling insecurity, outsourcing and low pay, says PAUL WHITEHOUSE
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RAOUL WALAWALKER shines a light on a deliberate government policy of cruelty and bluster at the Penally and Napier camps
Emergency services attend to the fire at Napier barracks in Folkestone, on Friday January 29
Trade unionists are mobilising to support Cuban workers and public services, amid escalating US pressure on the socialist island. RONAN OGILVY explains
The defence secretary’s resignation reveals not a split over principle but a dispute over pace of military spending, as Britain’s political Establishment unites behind deeper Nato commitments, argues NICK WRIGHT
The ceasefire may have halted the fighting for now, but years of economic warfare and recent military attacks have left millions of Iranians facing hardship and uncertainty, says Codir’s RUBEN BRETT
The struggle for Palestinian freedom has become a defining issue for everyone committed to justice, democracy and peace, says PETER LEARY ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
Unison director of organising KEVIN LUCAS explains the Organising to Win strategy, its successes to date and key tests on the union’s horizon
WITH 300 asylum-seekers told to go into lockdown for 10 days — despite over a third having coronavirus and no evidence of mass testing; sharing cramped, communal sleeping and eating space indefinitely in a long-disused army barracks — the chance of some sort of “unrest” had been high.
After weeks of peaceful protests — limited due to lockdown constraints — there was a fire on January 29 and a window got smashed. Despite the reports in The Sun, the police deny evidence of “rioting.”
Charities that have visited the residents weren’t surprised at what looked like reactions of panic and shock among some — described already as being “in a bad way” — after being told by the contractor that while some were being relocated, the rest were to remain “in bubbles” and would need to self-isolate for a further 10 days.
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