Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Fighting Tory plans for a bonfire of workers’ rights
The Thatcherites in the Cabinet present a real threat to workers’ rights, which our whole labour movement must unite to fight, argues RICHARD BURGON MP
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
A FEW years ago a number of free-market extremists published a book claiming British workers “prefer a lie-in to hard work,” slandering them as “among the worst idlers in the world” who “work among the lowest hours.”
One of the authors of that book is now the foreign secretary. Another the home secretary. Another the trade secretary. Another author of that book is the new business secretary, who has established a new 30-strong panel of business leaders to discuss changes to workers’ rights including getting rid of break and holiday pay entitlements and ending the already limited maximum working hours protections of the Working Time Directive.
It says everything you need to know that this consultation is being done solely with business leaders.
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