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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Organising hope: trade unions’ vital role in combating racism
JOHN CARSON looks at how trade unions can move beyond the empty flags and slogans of the employers to create real change in workplaces and communities, with reps tackling the root causes of racism and xenophobia
Demonstrators during an anti-racism protest organised by Stand Up to Racism, in George Square, Glasgow, August 10, 2024
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
LAST WEEK my good comrade, Adam Alarakhia, CWU’s Leicestershire Branch chair, was being interviewed by CWU Live and told quite a shocking story.
Amid the rioting and distress taking place across England and Northern Ireland, Adam said his son phoned him to ask if he could play outside on his bike, but Adam told him no, he couldn’t, the risk was just too much, too much for a father to allow his son to play outside in case something might happen to him — because he was black and because he was Muslim.
Our movement rightfully recoils at the scenes we have witnessed and the fear and tension that is being inflamed by far-right thugs. There have been demonstrations in over a dozen towns and cities in England and Northern Ireland.
In Rotherham and Tamworth in particular, violent thugs attempted to set fire to hotels hosting asylum-seekers — deliberately attacking and seeking harm on some of the most vulnerable people in our world.
Thankfully, we have not seen similar scenes here in Scotland so far, but it would be wrong for our movement to sleepwalk into Scottish exceptionalism.
While a recent ScotPulse poll found four in 10 people in Scotland wanted immigration reduced (compared to five in 10 in England) this was a 14-point increase on last year.
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