Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
Building working class power
We need to take class discrimination seriously, writes FRANCES O’GRADY, general secretary of the TUC, as 2019's Congress closes
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady
On the anniversary of the implementation of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, ROGER McKENZIE warns that the legacy of black enslavement still looms in the Caribbean and beyond
Starmer’s decision to recognise Palestine only as long as Israel continues to massacre its inhabitants has been met with outrage, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London
RAMZY BAROUD explains why the world can no longer ignore Palestine
Starmer’s decision to suspend Diane Abbott yet again demonstrates a determination to maintain and propagate a hierarchy of racism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
GRADUATES with parents in professional jobs are more than twice as likely as working-class graduates to start on a high salary, no matter what degree level they attain. That was the stark finding of research commissioned by the TUC and published during Congress 2019.
Our findings echo research from the government’s own Social Mobility Commission that found that even when people from working-class backgrounds enter professional occupations, they earn on average 17 per cent less than more privileged colleagues.
That’s just not right. And it’s a colossal waste of talent. It’s just one example of how the system is rigged against working-class people.
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