HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
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Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
MPs and others called for the urgent release of tortured Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, held hostage by Israel and reportedly near death, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Strike Map co-founder HENRY FOWLER discusses the significance of today’s joint union letter to video game giant Rockstar, demanding trade union recognition for its workers. Their conversation highlights how our movement can harness its collective power to rebuild union power across the private sector
Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON
The PM leaves office having squandered Labour’s electoral mandate and alienated its grassroots. He will not be missed, writes BRIAN LEISHMAN MP
AS THE climate crisis gets worse there is a growing tendency amongst “the 1 per cent” to divert attention from their own complicity, while at the same time shoring up our continued subservience to their exploitation.
Late last year Chris Packham, BBC presenter and patron of Population Matters, made the case that the existential threat facing humanity was being largely driven by global overpopulation. A year earlier David Attenborough, another BBC presenter and patron of Population Matters, took the same position.
Ten years before that a small group of 0.01 per centers met secretly to discuss how best to manage the future of life on Earth. Reported in the Times, the meeting was said to have been convened by Bill Gates and attended by among others Warren Buffet, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey. They also apparently came to the same conclusion — that overpopulation was the key to the problem.
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