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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To win back the working class we must ditch identity politics
The right has seized on our insistence upon all things woke and have used this to parody our whole movement, says BECK ROBERTSON
CLASS STRUGGLE:Trade unionists in Parliament Square, London calling on the government to save the UK steel industry
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
THE recent election result was a disappointing one for Labour, and in its wake many leftist political pundits have rushed to cite Brexit as the sole reason for the erosion of the red wall.
Centrists, in their fervour to wrest control from the hands of socialists and steer it back to a neoliberal economic agenda, have been ardent in their insistence that both the leadership and far-left monetary policy were reasons so many deserted.
Yet though Brexit was undoubtedly important, and Jeremy Corbyn’s popularity may have played a part, there is another long-ignored factor — identity politics and its role in the perception of the party as a vehicle for middle-class Islingtonites.
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