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Is McDonnell’s share plan ‘workers control’?
The 1977 Bullock Report shows we have been here before: will it work this time, and how radical is it, asks KEITH FLETT
WORKERS’ CONTROL: Britain’s largest mechanical puppet, The Man Engine, rises up beside the old pit head at Geevor Tin Mine, Cornwall, representing the power of a united working class
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell made a number of important announcements at the 2018 Labour Party conference on the subject of industry.
He has said that Labour will give workers in the private sector shares in their business, limited to £500 personally, the remainder to be used to invest in public services. He has also argued that there should be a significant number of workers on company boards, with the proviso that they are trade union members.
Given the unfortunate decline in trade union influence (by no means irreversible) and the power of the large private-sector companies like Amazon and Google, McDonnell’s policies ,if radical by recent standards, are also modest.
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