BEN CHACKO reports on fears at TUC Congress that the provisions in the legislation are liable to be watered down even further
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‘Blame China, praise Taiwan’ - what's behind the strange narrative of Western powers?
The West is irrationally elevating the Chinese island’s response to the outbreak above its neighbour's purely to score political points, explains KENNY COYLE
People in Taiwan wear faces masks to prevent the spread of Covid-19
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI
We must organise broad-based counterprotests and celebratory local community events to rebuild class consciousness and challenge the far-right’s divisive lies, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, ahead of this Saturday’s big demo in London
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
BRITAIN’S shambolic response to the Covid-19 crisis has become an international scandal as well as a domestic disgrace. The situation in the US, despite Trump’s bluster, is no better.
The recently concluded World Health Assembly (WHA) of the World Health Organisation (WHO) should have concentrated on global co-operation to research and fight the coronavirus.
Instead it became a shadow war over the international status of the island of Taiwan whose official name is the Republic of China (ROC), and attempts to cast the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the worst possible light.
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