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Black workers must unite against the structural racism exposed by Covid-19
The last year has seen longstanding factors consolidate under the pandemic to become a racial justice emergency, writes NASUWT general secretary and chair of the TUC Anti-Racism Taskforce DR PATRICK ROACH
Young people from black backgrounds are more likely to be unemployed than white workers at every qualification level. As we witnessed in the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher’s government, young black people once again face a very real prospect of being left behind.
DIANE ABBOTT says the socialist island has played an outsized role in the fight against racism worldwide — we must stand by it as Trump tries to choke it to death
GAWAIN LITTLE looks at the causes of the far-right resurgence and explains how the General Federation of Trade Unions is helping to combat it
As delegates from the north-east, Yorkshire & Humber meet this weekend in Durham, TUC regional secretary DAVE PIKE speaks to Ben Chacko about the challenges ahead
Prison Officers’ Association general secretary and TUC president STEVE GILLAN looks at what’s missing from the Employment Rights Act, and why we need further legislation
Militarism and war cannot be separated from ‘bread and butter issues,’ argues MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS — opposing them is central to trade unionism
ON the eve of UN Anti-Racism Day, it is prescient that our trade unions will be coming together at the TUC Black Workers’ Conference to advance a progressive agenda of anti-racism on the anniversary of the first coronavirus lockdown.
In the last year we have seen the country plunged into a health emergency, an economic emergency and a racial justice emergency. A health pandemic and the government’s response to it has reopened the deep wounds of structural racism that continue to blight and scar our country and our economy.
Structural racism continues to hold back communities and blight life chances. We have seen that most starkly in data showing the highest rates of Covid-19 deaths amongst black communities that have been systematically failed by a government response that was supposed to protect all of us during the pandemic.
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