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Get paid to go on strike?
By KD Tait For many years the left has fought for increases to strike funds. During the globalisation years, these funds dwindled as bureaucrats kept strike action at an all-time low. With the return of mass strikes in 2022, many unions have replenished their strike funds. And as the left has made gains in certain…
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Employment Rights Bill: Labour waters down their proposals
By KD Tait The delay in Labour’s Employment Rights Bill, originally promised as a flagship piece of legislation aimed at strengthening workers’ rights, is a betrayal of the workers and trade unions who put the party into power. When Labour was elected, the ERB, championed by Angela Rayner, was positioned as a pivotal piece of…
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Birmingham bin strike: Test for Labour
By Rebecca Anderson The Tories are up in arms, demanding Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner intervenes in the Birmingham bin strike. Their aim? Convene a Cobra meeting and break the strike by drafting in private sector scab labour. The Tories’ letter calls for a Cobra meeting to ‘ensure a co-ordinated response between national and local…
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The danger of Starmer’s ‘military Keynesianism’
By Dave Stockton On 25 February, the government website proclaimed ‘Prime Minister sets out biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the Cold War.’ It promised ‘a reinvigorated approach to defence industry will drive economic growth and create jobs across the UK’, in an ‘era of intensifying geopolitical competition and conflict.’ The next day Whitehall…
