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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We’re proud to have our party back – the party of socialism
The New Labour days when trade unions were regarded as an ‘embarrassment’ are firmly in the past, writes MICK WHELAN
Aslef leader Mick Whelan
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
HAROLD WILSON, who won four general elections, making him, electorally, a more successful Labour leader than either Clement Attlee or Tony Blair, famously argued: “The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.”
And he was right. The Labour Party, our party, lost its way when it forgot that basic truth, when the party became obsessed with worrying about the latest piece of loaded “research” from a free-market think tank or CBI-sponsored focus group rather than representing the aims and aspirations of the vast majority of ordinary hard-working men and women in this country.
During the dark days of the New Labour years my trade union — in fact, all trade unions — were treated by Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson as if we were distant relatives rather than close family — an embarrassing uncle who has to be invited to the Christmas party — and it was, sometimes, hard to keep the faith. But we did.
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