Defend Our Unions and Strike Out the Tories
The right to strike is under threat. Labour will do nothing and the TUC have no stomach for a fight. Unite behind the current strikes and build our power.
Writing From the Left, Changing the Conversation
The right to strike is under threat. Labour will do nothing and the TUC have no stomach for a fight. Unite behind the current strikes and build our power.
The nurses will need to rely on their own self-organisation and increase links with the striking ambulance staff and with other striking workers.
However powerful a movement is, if the organisation grows and is not allowed to thrive then it will die. Chris Williamson tells what many of us suspected.
Transgender people are being target again when the real problem is coming from inside the rotten Metropolitan Police.
Not impressed by any of the new leadership contenders after Jeremy Corbyn, Kevin felt Keir Starmer only gained power by misleading people. In fact he sees Westminster as a corrupt place, with very little relevance, especially for the people of Wales.
So, to the question ‘Whatever happened to the Labour Party?’ the only viable answer is: nothing. It is still the same pro-establishment, anti-socialist party it has always been.
I used to vote Labour because they were better than the Tories and we needed the Labour Left to build a Socialist alternative. Not any more.
The Tories are using strikes to attack the unions but are shocked by the scale of resistance. Now they are panicking and so is the Opposition.
Support the public sector strikers in their battle with the government. They are fighting for us all. The Tories are fighting for themselves.
The racism shown to Ngozi Fulani at a Palace reception is the tip of an iceberg that extends deep into the British state and society at large.