Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
Trade unions throughout Europe are working directly with their international and European Union federations to bring pressure on the EU to force tough sanctions...
5 min
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020
On September 10, 1933, Mosley’s notorious Blackshirts marched into Stockton-on-Tees with the specific aim of holding a rally to recruit and garner support. Mosl...
4 min
Friday, August 28th, 2020
The gaffe prone former Aussie PM, famous for his cringe-worthy comments (read here) will be ‘joint president’ together with International Trade Secretary Liz...
4 min
Friday, August 21st, 2020
Or as Nelson Mandela put it “No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People are taught to ha...
6 min
Thursday, August 20th, 2020
In the UK, the Chancellor is refusing to extend the furlough scheme despite the prospect of mass job losses. But in Germany, the ‘Kurzarbeit’ social insurance s...
5 min
Monday, August 17th, 2020
With the tsunami of job losses we predicted when Rishi Sunak announced, the phasing-out of the furlough scheme now coming to pass, the government’s reversion to...
6 min
Friday, August 14th, 2020
In the morning the vast inspiring Al Amin Mosque. Heads covered feet bare. Under the chandeliers our whispered voices echoes of centuries.
2 min
Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
CPHVA: Health visitors, school nurses and community teams should be represented on NHS trusts and boards
4 min
Friday, August 7th, 2020
A joint statement earlier this week (August 5) by the TUC, Centenary Action Group, the Fawcett Society, Women’s Aid and trade unions representing parliamentary ...
4 min
Thursday, July 30th, 2020
Picking up last weekend’s press, I almost choked on my morning tea when I read that ‘Red Wall Tories’ were working to save UK aerospace. This was news to me – a...
7 min
Friday, July 24th, 2020
At our peril we’d ignored the periphery Discovered we aren’t in charge of our destiny.
2 min
Friday, July 24th, 2020
The author has taken the events of 1913-17 described in his earlier Radical Aristocrats: London Busworkers from the 1880s to the 1980s (Lawrence and Wishart, 19...
3 min
Monday, July 20th, 2020
Covid-19 has put food and agriculture workers at the heart of a national and international fight and highlighted all that’s wrong with the food system — dysfunc...
6 min
Thursday, July 16th, 2020
Vast sums of cash are standing idle in the Treasury, with employers seeing it as a tax, unable to access it to fund recognised apprenticeships for either their ...
7 min
Tuesday, July 14th, 2020
The hospitality industry is storing up big problems for the future
5 min
Wednesday, July 8th, 2020
Unite political department's Joy Johnson's take on chancellor's statement
5 min
Thursday, July 2nd, 2020
Our ‘Build Back Better’ club acquired an application from a new aspiring member this week: welcome, Prime Minister. I hope that you will take some time to famil...
7 min
Thursday, July 2nd, 2020
There’s rising panic being felt in homes across the country right now. The last 24 hours have seen a jobs bloodbath with over 10,000 lost.
3 min
