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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Building a revolutionary outfit: security and socialist aesthetics
As an indication of the state of the class struggle, the contest for the streets is still central to progressive politics, says NICK WRIGHT — and how leftists take to the streets matters too
For the working-class movement, the street is our stage. When the dominant media is monopoly owned, the few spaces where the working class can find its voice and make it heard are precious.
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
MUCH of politics is performance. The exuberant picket lines of this past year, the mass character of the strike movement and the enormous public support strikers and their families enjoy have breached the cloak of silence that renders the working-class movement invisible.
Mass mobilisation has transformed our routine activity into headline news.
The witty wordplay and irreverent humour of nurses and medics have transformed weary picket lines into living tableaus, while many union leaders now strive to emulate Mick Lynch’s deadpan delivery.
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