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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How legitimate anger is at risk of being channelled in bizarre and dangerous directions
Growing populism is a sign that the working-class labour and progressive movement must give a clear and direct lead in terms of why we are where we are and what needs to be done, warns BILL GREENSHIELDS
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
IT’S very easy to point the finger of ridicule at “Covid deniers,” “anti-vaxxers” and other conspiracy theorists — but in fact we need to recognise that very large numbers of people, particularly working-class people who have been worst affected by the pandemic, are becoming increasingly angry that their lives have been turned upside down, and may give such populism a hearing if our movement doesn’t give a powerful lead.
These are people who are often confined to cramped housing, their jobs destroyed or threatened, increasingly unable to make ends meet and care for their families, having to turn to foodbanks, separated even from family support, ripped off by profiteers, worried that they may be kicked out of their homes — all as a result of the government’s big business priorities.
Ministers’ handling of the virus crisis has been both callous and at the same time incompetent — so why would working-class people not want to protest and take some sort of action — perhaps any sort of action?
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