Robinson successfully defended his school from closure, fought for the unification of the teaching unions, mentored future trade union leaders and transformed teaching at the Marx Memorial Library, writes JOHN FOSTER
Britain’s youth need jobs not bombs
MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS agitates for British youth to engage in the fight for peace and the transfer of investment from armament to social programmes
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking at a press conference with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, February 3, 2025
A judge in a German court ruled that the ban activity imposed on renowned Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah was unlawful, reports LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR
From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the legal case behind this weekend’s Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival and the lessons for today
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
The summer of 1950 saw Labour abandon further nationalisation while escalating Korean War spending from £2.3m to £4.7m, as the government meekly accepted capitalism’s licence and became Washington’s yes-man, writes JOHN ELLISON
THE Labour Party, despite having a mandate in Parliament to deliver the much-needed change that the working class in this country need, is pursuing an agenda of austerity against the most vulnerable in our society.
One of the first acts of this government was to take away the winter fuel allowance from elderly pensioners and to vote to keep the Tories’ two-child benefit cap.
Just this week, the labour government has announced cuts to disability benefits of up to £5 billion, which will leave the poorest and most vulnerable in society without necessary financial support to live.
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Unison has consistently opposed the apartheid system in occupied Palestine, and is now leading the call to end the British state’s military support for Israel as the massacre in Gaza continues, writes MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS
For the sake of our futures, trade unionists must make the link between austerity at home and never-ending war abroad, writes MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS
