Five ways the government’s emergency coronavirus legislation threatens the working class – and how to fight back
From strengthened police powers to forcing workers to pay for the crisis.
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Category: UK
Unions and Labour Councils must step up the fight against unsafe re-opening of schools
How we can stop the schools reopening on 1 June and put public health before private wealth
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Review: The Road to Somewhere by David Goodhart
David Goodhart’s new book presents a deeply conservative analysis of the post-Brexit convulsions in British politics
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Relaxing the Lockdown? To save lives and jobs – we’ll need workers control
Britain has become No1 in Europe and No2 in the world for COVID-19 mortality. To replace the “stay at home’ message with “go to work” carries the danger of a second peak.
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Threat of mass walkouts foils Royal Mail bosses’ sneak attack
Royal Mail’s attempt to cut the postal service has been thwarted by the threat of walkouts.
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Ted Knight (1933-2020)
Ted Knight, leader of Lambeth Labour council during the rate-capping dispute of the 1980s, and lifelong socialist, has died.
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Remember the dead – fight for the living!
As the coronavirus crisis rips through society, International Workers’ Memorial Day on 28 April is more important than ever.
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The Labour left after Corbyn: A chance to break with strategy of compromise
Two successive election defeats have opened a debate about the balance sheet of the Corbyn project, the objectives of the Labour left, and what role Momentum should play in the struggles to come.
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Keir Starmer’s election: the end of the Corbyn revolution
THE ELECTION of Keir Starmer as Labour leader, with 56.2% of the vote, represents a clear victory...
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Why Covid-19 has pushed the NHS past breaking point
The UK government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed not only the ineptitude of the current government but the sorry state of our National Health Service, which has been pushed to breaking point by successive administrations
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A million sign on in two weeks: the reality behind Sunak’s empty promises
In the last two weeks of March, 950,000 people successfully applied for the income support part of Universal Credit. The DWP has moved 10,000 backroom staff onto the frontline to cope with the 10-fold surge in demand
Read More The politics of being off sick
THE INTERNATIONAL CRISIS of the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the stark inadequacies of the...
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