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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Too many teachers are seeing their pupils suffer with poor mental health
Children’s lives are being blighted by austerity and poverty in towns and cities up and down the country, writes KEVIN COURTNEY
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
“IT’S like a slow-motion car crash that I am powerless to stop and can’t bear to watch or be part of any more.”
This was a heartbreaking response from one of our members responding to a survey on the surge of mental health problems among young people.
The results of a questionnaire, conducted before our annual conference in Liverpool this week, make harrowing reading.
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