Dr Lorraine Grimes, of Maynooth University, in Ireland, examines the scandal of the repatriation of thousands of unmarried women and girls from Britain to Ireland
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Starmer at UNITE conference – step up the pressure!
A letter from Steve McKenzie – a Unite Community Member Keir Starmer is speaking at Unite’s policy conference on Thursday. This follows a recent overwhelming vote
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By Steve McKenzie – Unite Community member, south-east London. [featured image REUTERS] The perpetual lies, deceit and incompetence finally caught up with Boris Johnson last
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Where next for France’s pensions protests?
Richard Price (Leyton and Wanstead CLP) has been reporting from Béziers, in the South of France, for Labour Outlook on the French pensions protests. We
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By Steve McKenzie, Unite Community branch member What is the best estimate for the membership of UNITE the union? Eight hundred and fifty thousand ballot
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Resist new anti-Trade Union laws!
Letter from Mark Langabeer (Unite Community member) The latest round of anti-union laws is an attack on the right of workers to take industrial action.
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Ray Goodspeed spoke to Antonia Berelson, a specialist nurse from East Sussex, after the recent Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Congress. They discussed the pay
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Asbestos: “Miracle material” – slow killer!
Mike Kennard (former trade union heath and safety rep) examines an appalling threat to health and safety (see sources at end of article) In Britain
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The end of the Communist (Third) International – 80 years ago today.
Ray Goodspeed introduces an article by Ted Grant, from 1943, on the shameful end of the Communist International (1919-1943). The full article, “The rise and
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Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye Labour member) watched the recent ITV/ITVX documentary (see here). ITV’s Tonight Reporter, Kate Quilton, investigates the causes of rocketing food