TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK speaks to the Morning Star’s Berny Torre about the increasing frustration the trade union movement feels at a government that promised change, but has been too slow to bring it about
There has never been a greater need to fight for a new deal for workers
Join the movement and back the campaign to end austerity in Britain for good, says DAVE WARD
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
With 12,000 fewer teachers since 2010 and dwindling resources, Scotland’s schools desperately need investment to support diverse learners rather than empty promises from politicians, writes ANDREA BRADLEY
Reversing outsourcing is the pre-election promise the government must honour, says Unison general secretary CHRISTINA McANEA
EMAN ABU ZAYED reminisces about the perilous time her family and neighbours endured in northern Gaza and how they were forced, in fear of their lives, to flee south
The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER
AS trade unionists from across the country meet in Brighton for this year’s TUC Congress, there’s a good chance that by the time we leave here on Wednesday evening a general election will have been called.
Even if it hasn’t, it feels almost certain that we will have one before the year is out. And for the movement this is a huge opportunity.
There is no doubt in my mind that Labour is in a position where it is promising the single most ambitious programme to grow trade unions, and to enhance collective and individual employment rights, that this country has ever seen.
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