While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
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The Story of the Shrewsbury Pickets
EILEEN TURNBULL looks back on Britain’s first-ever national building workers’ strike
NICK WRIGHT continues his series analysing the trends in European politics
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General Federation of Trade Unions assistant general secretary HENRY FOWLER reports on the final day from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
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
Treating the Clacton by-election as a joke risks reinforcing the Reform leader’s claim to be the victim of an out-of-touch Establishment, argues JOHN McINALLY
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
BRITAIN’S first-ever national building workers’ strike took place in 1972. Construction workers faced hostile and powerful employers, lump labour and isolated workplaces that changed constantly whenever a contract finished.
Workers faced dangerous conditions on sites every day and there were no health and safety measures. One building worker died each working day in the early ’70s. Over 70,000 would suffer serious injury or illness each year. Ucatt, the T&G, FTAT and NUGMW were the main unions that had members in the industry.
Many industrial relations commentators thought that their strike was doomed to fail because of the difficulties in organising building workers compared with the highly unionised miners and dockworkers.
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