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
Florence factory workers light the way for green industrial struggle
Comrades from a British solidarity network highlight how an automotive factory occupation in Italy shows how worker-led militancy can challenge both job losses and environmental destruction
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
TUC Congress in Brighton this year debated four separate motions on the climate crisis. All of the motions call for a just transition to make sure that workers in the energy, transport and manufacturing industries are not simply thrown on the dole.
Appeals to the new Labour government were aplenty, but what was absent from every motion was the need for industrial militancy to ensure that a just transition leading to a decarbonised economy does not result in working-class communities being decimated by long-term unemployment.
Some in our movement describe this as pie in the sky, but workers have taken the lead in defending the environment in the past, and it is essential that they do so again.
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