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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Transforming the economy for the many
Ahead of Arise this weekend, MATT WILLGRESS writes on why we need to deepen understanding of socialist economics and popularise Labour’s alternative
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
IN A keynote speech this week Jeremy Corbyn summed up how Britain’s economy has developed in recent decades by saying: “While the finance sector has continued to grow, a decade after the bankers’ crash the super-rich have grown still richer.
“For too long, many of our communities have lost out in the global economy free-for-all. The few have succeeded, but at the expense of the many.”
As an alternative to this, he outlined a serious and radical vision of an economic alternative alongside numerous specific policy pledges, in a speech which was widely lauded in the labour movement as giving real leadership at this vital time.
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