TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK speaks to the Morning Star’s Berny Torre about the increasing frustration the trade union movement feels at a government that promised change, but has been too slow to bring it about
Crunch time is here for the labour movement
We need to flip the narrative from the defensive battles we have been forced to fight under the Tories to the real opportunities presented by a left-led Labour government, writes GAWAIN LITTLE
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
With 12,000 fewer teachers since 2010 and dwindling resources, Scotland’s schools desperately need investment to support diverse learners rather than empty promises from politicians, writes ANDREA BRADLEY
Reversing outsourcing is the pre-election promise the government must honour, says Unison general secretary CHRISTINA McANEA
EMAN ABU ZAYED reminisces about the perilous time her family and neighbours endured in northern Gaza and how they were forced, in fear of their lives, to flee south
The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER
The next few months will prove crucial for the labour and trade union movement and for all working people. We are faced with two stark alternatives.
On the one hand, we have an unstable right-wing government, intent of enforcing decades of austerity onto working people. Our schools and our NHS have been opened up to private profit and, in or out of the EU, the vultures are circling. Our unions remain shackled by the most regressive anti-union laws in Europe.
On the other hand, we have the biggest opportunity for working people in a generation: the chance of a Labour government which will actually listen to the working class. A government which will end austerity and invest in our economy, which will bring our public services back into public ownership and control, which will abolish the unjust anti-union laws which tie one hand behind our back and replace them with pro-worker legislation, including the restoration of collective bargaining.
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