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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The working class needs a historic upsurge of resistance
How do we organise across our unions and communities to stop job losses in the face of allegedly ‘inevitable’ mass unemployment, asks BILL GREENSHIELDS
Every union at every level from the workplace upwards needs to make a full-on assessment of the effects of job loss — and what intervention is needed
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
CAN we challenge the “inevitability” of the “hard times” that Rishi Sunak — ex Winchester public-school Head Boy, millionaire 10 times over, $700 million hedge-funder, speaking from his £7m home — tells us are “now here,” reassuring us that, despite this, “no-one will be left without hope and opportunity?”
Of course, he means none of his class will be left without opportunity.
We know from long bitter experience that crises and recessions such as those building throughout 2019 are inevitable features of the “failed free market” (as Unite’s Steve Turner called it in his challenging Star article over the weekend) and the anti-working-class politics that go with it. And we know from such experience too that no narrow or sectarian campaign can substitute for such a broadly led movement based in our workplaces, towns and villages.
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