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 two-child benefit cap shames our country – it’s time to end it
Ending the cap would immediately lift some 250,000 children out of poverty. For Labour not to make ending it a policy is madness, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
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
BRITAIN is a country shamed by the poverty of its children — and it’s a scandal that there is no urgent political will or interest in changing one of the main drivers of this catastrophe.
Some 4.2 million of our children are living in poverty — one in three of our kids — with almost three million of them in “deep” poverty, whose families earn less than half of the median income.
This number, in the midst of an induced cost-of-living emergency and soaring interest rates, is only going in one direction, yet there seems little parliamentary interest in stopping the rise.
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