While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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Our labour rights must be defended at all costs
KEITH EWING and JOHN HENDY explore how the movement can resist the government’s draconian Trade Union Bill
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TRADE unionists will meet at the NUT’s Mander Hall in central London this evening, united in their fury about Tory attacks on their civil liberties.
What is at stake is an attempt to silence the trade union political voice and to emasculate its industrial power. Neither will succeed — trade unions are too important and their support too strong. A bloody battle of wills is about to unfold.
From the first British legislation against collective bargaining in 1349, we have had to fight for our rights — against the Combination Acts of 1799 and 1800, not repealed until 1824; against the judges to achieve the Trade Union Act of 1871; and against the judges again to pass the Trades Disputes Act 1906 (a struggle which was instrumental in forming the Labour Party).
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