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
The yellow vests and the erosion of trade union strength
‘Social mobilisation is no longer carried out by the left and trade unions alone,’ French CGT activist Karl Ghazi tells the Rosa Luxemburg conference in Berlin. BEN CHACKO reports
Women sing against French President Emmanuel Macron on a pensions strike demo on Saturday
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
PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron’s government has blinked in its five-week standoff with the French trade unions.
It has offered to withdraw proposals to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 if they call off strikes.
Following demonstrations that have brought as many as 800,000 people onto the streets on the biggest days, the retreat is a victory — and the CFDT and UNSA union federations have already welcomed it.
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