This anti-strike law amounts to an existential challenge for unions General secretary of the National Education Union DANIEL KEBEDE argues that anything less than total demolition of the new strike legislation will bring the very point of unions into question
Features | Saturday 09th Dec 2023 Interview 'Build a mass movement to defeat the Tory attacks on strike rights'
Features | Saturday 09th Dec 2023 This special TUC comes at a historic moment for the labour movement
Friday 08th Dec 2023 Notes From A Free Walker Christmas: the great beasts come home DAVE BANGS mourns the pollution-driven demise of the magnificent and mighty sea trout
Friday 08th Dec 2023 Ministers want to drive a wedge between teachers and parents – they won't succeed NASUWT general secretary PATRICK ROACH says the bid to misrepresent teachers as disruptors of children's education won't wash
Friday 08th Dec 2023 Resisting and defeating the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act RMT leader MICK LYNCH on the union's vision for derailing a dangerous bid to outlaw effective strike action in Britain
Friday 08th Dec 2023 Minimum Services Levels – Fighting for the Future TSSA general secretary MARYAM ESLAMDOUST on the challenge posed by the Tories' attack on the right to strike
Friday 08th Dec 2023 Our trade unions must make anti-strike laws inoperable RMT president ALEX GORDON on Saturday’s TUC Special Congress
Friday 08th Dec 2023 Can we finally bust the myths about migration? From misunderstanding the net gain made from foreign students to the need for workers to plug the gaps created by our ageing population, anti-immigration tropes need to be confronted, writes PAUL DONOVAN
Friday 08th Dec 2023 I remember Thatcher: she devastated Britain Thatcher’s ‘solution’ to the decline of the post-war settlement was to destroy much of our manufacturing base and throw millions out of work and into poverty, explains JON TRICKETT MP
Thursday 07th Dec 2023 To whom is Thatcher fanboy Starmer trying to appeal? Instead of trying to woo Conservative voters by worshipping at the altar of the Iron Lady, Labour should instead look at the numbers who support a return to the post-war welfare state, writes NICK WRIGHT
Thursday 07th Dec 2023 Home working Civil servants will not be forced back into the office unnecessarily PCS pioneered the successful and beneficial work-from-home move during the pandemic — the Cabinet Office will not force an arbitrary ‘60 per cent in office’ mandate on us now, writes PAUL O’CONNOR
Thursday 07th Dec 2023 The British media’s complicity in Israel’s slaughter in Gaza Just like with the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, the British public cannot trust the media to provide accurate, critical or historically contextual coverage of the war on Gaza, asserts IAN SINCLAIR
