Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
THEY SAY it’s grim up north — but they obviously have never stood on a picket line in Liverpool on a sunny spring day. After rejecting insulting and divisive pay offers the City of Liverpool College UCU branches along with six Further Education (FE) colleges in north-west England took strike action yesterday May 18.
This isn’t the first strike of its kind; unfortunately FE colleges every year force members to take industrial action in the face of pathetic below inflation pay offers. UCU members voted overwhelmingly for strike action last year and they did again this year.
What bad bosses don’t realise is that every time they force this then it just increases the strength of the workers. Nina Doran, UCU secretary to the UCU liaison committee at City of Liverpool College, told us that “the support for action is increasing, despite the anti-trade union actions and intimidating tactics of a leadership who do not listen to UCU members.
Since 2023, Strike Map has evolved from digital mapping at a national level to organising ‘mega pickets’ — we believe that mass solidarity with localised disputes prepares the ground for future national action, writes HENRY FOWLER
As Birmingham’s refuse workers fight brutal pay cuts, Strike Map rallies mass solidarity, with unions, activists, and workers converging to defy scab labour and police intimidation. The message to Labour? Back workers or face rebellion, writes HENRY FOWLER and ROBERT POOLE



