The Milburn review presents itself as a plan to help young people into work, but Dr DYLAN MURPHY argues it is laying the groundwork for a harsher benefits regime
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Ukip offers nothing to working-class people
TSSA president MICK CARNEY explores how defections to Farage’s rag-tag party offers credibility where it isn’t deserved
Campaigners from across the continent will gather in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services, write MAGGIE SIMPSON and BOB ORAM of No Cold War Britain
National co-ordinator for General Strike 100, HENRY FOWLER, continues his nationwide tour of partner organisations by visiting the Modern Records Centre at Warwick University
GEOFF BOTTOMS recalls meeting Fidel Castro in the ’90s after joining a Pastors for Peace caravan to Cuba, and reflects on how international support is still vital to help the island withstand economic warfare
The Ivors Academy’s hike in entry fees could turn this respected peer-assessed event into an exclusive preserve for those wealthy enough to compete, warns BEN LUNN
Peter Murrell’s weakness for the allure of prestige goods is symptomatic of modern consumer culture, says MATT KERR
LAST week my predecessor as TSSA president Harriet Yeo announced she was leaving the Labour Party to “lend” her support to Ukip for the next election. Now I do not believe for one minute that the timing of this was just coincidental.
Her announcement came just a day after she was deselected as a Labour councillor and leader of the Ashford group. The reasons the Labour Party cited for her deselection, such as non-attendance at meetings, sound all too familiar. I do believe however that her biggest betrayal to her working-class electorate was to walk straight into the arms of Ukip.
Ukip does not represent the views that I or many within the trade union movement stand for. It is a nasty right-wing party with rich city-based financial backers, which is openly hostile to trade unions.
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