‘Working in rail is a battle from day one’ RMT young members' committee chair SARAH CUNDY speaks to Ben Chacko about the challenges facing young transport workers, public campaigning and training a new generation of union reps
Wednesday 08th May 2024 AI and entertainment: here come the machines, there go the jobs After the recent writers' and actors' strikes, the bosses in film and TV are embracing the cost-cutting potential of AI even faster than before — barely acknowledging that what they will be cutting is livelihoods, writes DENNIS BROE
Wednesday 08th May 2024 The students will not tolerate hypocrisy over Gaza The brightness of the souls of the youth now rebelling on campuses across the globe illuminates the wretchedness of our system, which has at its heart the ugliness of Israel’s war, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Tuesday 07th May 2024 Tribute Remembering Bill Ronksley Former Aslef president TOSH McDONALD pays tribute to his political mentor and to the lifetime he spent serving the left and labour movement
Tuesday 07th May 2024 Miners’ strike stalwarts mark epic struggle 40 years on GREG CHALLIS reports on an event, organised by Chorley TUC, to remember the landmark struggle of the miners and their families, where calls were made for a return to working-class politics to address the issues of today
Tuesday 07th May 2024 Local elections were a disaster for the Tories – and bad news for Labour After 14 years of Tory rule there's little enthusiasm for Starmer and his menu of reheated Thatcherism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Tuesday 07th May 2024 Peaceful student encampments opposing Israel’s genocide have become a political football Biden tries to look tough by condemning campus violence. But the violent attacks are coming from police and zionist mobs, leading a university workers' union to threaten strike action while faculty members act to defend their students, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Tuesday 07th May 2024 Opinion Palestinians as ‘The Others’ Across the media and political class there are entrenched double standards over the value of Israeli and Palestinian lives, argues RALPH NADER
Tuesday 07th May 2024 Voices of Scotland The new first minister must address the concerns of workers The 500 refinery jobs under threat at Grangemouth and underfunding in further education should be at the top of a new Scottish leader’s to-do list, argues RICHARD LEONARD MSP
Monday 06th May 2024 ‘A thick web of CIA operations and dirty tricks’ Ian Sinclair speaks to SUSAN WILLIAMS about Britain and the US’s dark machinations against African leaders and nations they decided were at odds with their geopolitical interests in the 20th century — and the ongoing cover-up attempts
Monday 06th May 2024 Full Marx Are Marxists iconoclasts? Statues and other icons can enforce power and domination but they can also help us challenge that power, writes the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School