A celebration of our heritage and political history At this year’s ‘virtual Gala,’ the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign will be premiering their Miners’ Strike Stories film. KATE FLANNERY reports
Thursday 09th Jul 2020 Open letter: Scottish civil society calls for sanctions against Israel AS representatives of Scottish civil society, we are extremely concerned for the fate of the Palestinian people who have suffered under Israeli occ
Thursday 09th Jul 2020 Engie: low-wage contractors and the NHS SOLOMON HUGHES looks at the French firm drafted in by the privateers to run security in our hospitals and its empty commitment to the Living Wage
Thursday 09th Jul 2020 Reasons to be hopeful: introducing the TUC's free organising conference Unions have risen to the challenge of the coronavirus, from saving jobs to keeping those jobs safe — it is no wonder our membership is growing rapidly too, writes PAUL NOWAK
Thursday 09th Jul 2020 Why unions need to bring anti-racist and anti-fascist organising back in-house We cannot continue to farm out antifascism to race-industry professionals when it is us, the organised working class who do both the fighting and educating in our streets and workplaces, writes GORDY CULLUM
Thursday 09th Jul 2020 As trade unions, we must be heard on racism From Trump and Bolsonaro to Britain’s own ‘hostile environment.’ it must be the trade unions that challenge the rise of the radical, racist right, argues NASUWT general secretary PATRICK ROACH
Thursday 09th Jul 2020 Mapping black distrust of the police Labour’s leader has weighed in behind the thin blue line — but he needs to understand we live in a society with record levels of scepticism towards law enforcement, says NICK WRIGHT
Wednesday 08th Jul 2020 Does Burnley have a racism problem? Engaging with the problems of post-industrial England requires more than a simplistic analysis that divides people into ‘the enlightened or the uneducated,’ writes LAURA BRIGGS
Wednesday 08th Jul 2020 So the poor don't suffer: the return to school Fines and token funding aren't what disadvantaged pupils need — it's structural change, writes ROBERT POOLE
Wednesday 08th Jul 2020 The West Bank is already annexed Don’t get sucked in by Israel’s bizarre definitions: whether it officially grabs more Arab land or not, it is – and always has been – a fully fledged colonial nation, rather than an ‘occupying power’
Wednesday 08th Jul 2020 How public opposition has forced Tory government U-turns Don’t despair, writes IAN SINCLAIR, the Tory government is being forced to back down by people power – on the return to classroom, free school meals and even fracking
