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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Spending Review: The working class should not be made to pay for this crisis
The government is frivolous when it comes to handing money out to Tory donors or private companies, but penny-pinching when it comes to bailing out communities, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
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
LAST week, the Chancellor made one of the most important Spending Review statements in recent years.
Due to the government’s negligent handling of the pandemic we are facing the worst of both worlds: the highest number of excess deaths in Europe, one of the worst Covid-19 death rates in the world, and our worst ever recession — which is nearly twice as severe as in comparable nations.
The 11.3 per cent slump in UK GDP forecast for this year will be even worse than the recession of 1921, when Britain’s economy shrank almost 10 per cent in the aftermath of the first world war and the Spanish flu epidemic.
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