Call that a campaign?
Blink and you would have missed it. The TUC’s campaign on public sector pay kicked off on 17 October with a desultory lobby of parliament.
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‘Free movement’?
Free movement of labour from inside and outside the EU has seen employers taking on staff at below even the minimum wage.
Unions plan a future for British shipping
Trade unions involved in British shipping have set their minds to exploiting the opportunities that will open up when we leave the EU. In so doing, they are setting an example to the whole trade union movement…
1917: a world shaking
The Russian October Revolution overthrew the rule of exploiters for the first time in history…
They call it a housing market, but it’s just chaos
After Brexit, we must seize the opportunity to roll back privatisation, the market, and the free movement of labour and capital to rethink Britain’s housing…
Shh...don’t mention the class struggle
Suddenly, politicians seem to be wanting to talk about work. Low wage work, minimum wage work, gig work, any kind of work. Just as long as there’s no contradiction between employers and workers…
EU: making pain in Spain
The EU is standing to one side in the crisis over Catalonia. But the situation is also of its own making…
How market madness is throttling broadband
Britain could have led the world in fibre broadband. Instead, hostility to nationalised industries and blind faith in the market shut development down – and are still holding back the country’s productive forces…
Manufacturing future for North
The vote to leave the EU has induced a frenzy of pessimistic media forecasts about the future of investment and productive activity in Britain.