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.

By KD Tait As the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, unveiled her spring statement, the echoes of austerity reverberated across the nation. Although wrapped in rhetoric about investment and growth, the proposals unveiled are far from the transformative change this country desperately needs. Instead, they are a continuation of policies that prioritise the wealthiest […]

MPs and activists targeted in major attack on democratic rights.

The markets demand public spending cuts, and Rachel Reeves is happy to oblige.

Rachel Reeves' first budget does nothing to fundamentally challenge the Tory legacy of a shrinking welfare state and profiteering from public services

Hope Not Hate go undercover to expose the changing dynamics of the international far right mixing racism, violence and conspiracy theories

Antiracist demonstrations show working class solidarity is the way to stop fascist terror.

To get reforms out of Labour will be like drawing teeth.

Our task is to make our unions and social movements fight Labour’s coming attacks.

A surprise victory for the left-wing New Popular Front will intensify the political instability in the country.

Great power rivalry is back. That means more wars, more coups — and an end to the farce of global cooperation on climate change. On the home front, a general election is a chance for workers to put our demands on the agenda.

Palestinian trade unions have issued a call for solidarity from the international labour movement.

Workers' action can strengthen the global solidarity movement

An unprecedented seven days of strike action over 16 days by consultants and junior doctors.

By KD Tait In early September Keir Starmer reshuffled the shadow cabinet ready for a general election campaign, stuffing it with Blairite hardliners, friends to big business and sworn enemies of the left. Just as the Tory conference marked the beginning of the struggle for the leadership of the Conservatives in the wake of an […]

The fight goes on, but only rank and file control can overcome obstacles

AS WE go to press NHS managers and Health Minster Steve Barclay are dragging the largest NHS union, the Royal College of Nursing, before the High Court in a bid by to block nurses’ strike action due to start on the May Day weekend. They claimed that the strike mandate would be invalid from midnight […]

More strikes announced, but union leaders preparing to settle for pay cut

Vote 'No' to consultation and 'Yes' to action.

By KD Tait ON 1 FEBRUARY hundreds of thousands of teachers, lecturers, civil servants and train drivers struck in the biggest coordinated day of action for many years. In London alone, 50,000 strikers marched in the biggest weekday demonstration since the protest against Donald Trump’s visit in 2018. Tens of thousands more marched in towns […]

Living standards will fall by 7% in the next two years.

The government has picked a fight with nurses to hold public sector pay down and continue NHS privatisation.

By KD Tait THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) is taking strike action on 15 and 20 December in the largest nurses’ strike in UK history. After more than a decade of underfunding, health workers have seen their pay, conditions and staffing levels deteriorate to breaking point. Nurses have lost more than 20% of their […]

Drip-feeding strikes hasn't shaken the bosses. It's time to organise for escalated action and against a compromise.

Hunt's budget constitutes the organised impoverishment of millions in order to protect the profits of business, banks and speculators.

Editorial November 2022, No. 398

By KD Tait SIX SHORT weeks was all Tory MPs needed to put an end to the Truss experiment. This time they did not make the mistake of consulting their members. Having already installed Jeremy Hunt as Chancellor, the election rules were blatantly rigged in favour of the bankers’ man Rishi Sunak. The forces of […]

What is the TUC going to do about it?

Joint strike committees should mobilise across all unions for a big yes vote, and demand escalating action to win

By Jeremy Dewar TWO TO three thousand people turned out in central London on Saturday 10 September to protest the killing of Chris Kaba by the police the previous Monday. The large response clearly surprised the police and organisers, just as it lifted the spirits of the grieving family. Another police murder Chris was the […]