Robinson successfully defended his school from closure, fought for the unification of the teaching unions, mentored future trade union leaders and transformed teaching at the Marx Memorial Library, writes JOHN FOSTER
Directing anger into a strategy for change
GAWAIN LITTLE highlights the General Federation of Trade Unions’ new education programme - to help forge the unity and strength we need to force a change of direction for Britain
STOP DEINDUSTRALISATION: Steel workers march down Whitehall in London to protest outside the Houses of Parliament, June 28 2023
A judge in a German court ruled that the ban activity imposed on renowned Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah was unlawful, reports LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR
From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the legal case behind this weekend’s Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival and the lessons for today
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
The summer of 1950 saw Labour abandon further nationalisation while escalating Korean War spending from £2.3m to £4.7m, as the government meekly accepted capitalism’s licence and became Washington’s yes-man, writes JOHN ELLISON
OUR trade union movement faces very real challenges over the coming months and years.
We are experiencing a cost-of-living crisis not of our making. As inflation goes through the roof, profits are sky-high and the only thing not rising is our members’ wages.
Many of us work in, and all of us use, public services which have been systematically underfunded and fragmented, many subject to privatisation.
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After the Gaza genocide and unleashing chaos in Syria, the US and Israel prepare to target Tehran next, leaving the Iranian people caught between foreign intervention and continued theocratic oppression, writes GAWAIN LITTLE
GAWAIN LITTLE urges the labour movement to seize a historic opportunity under the new government, warning that failure to push for real change now could spell disaster for workers and fuel the far-right threat
