Ray Goodspeed spoke to a UNITE union activist at St. Mungo’s about the recent pay deal and other issues in their all-out strike which, amazingly,
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By Left Horizons reporters By ending up with their own staff balloting for strike action, the leadership of the University and College Union is enormously

By John Pickard, Brentwood and Ongar Labour member One of the first things the Tory-LibDem coalition did when they were elected in May 2010, was

Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member Following the summer recess, the Tories remain in crisis. The issue of crumbling concrete in schools

By John Pickard For working class families in the past, the pawnbroker was the equivalent of the pay-day money-lender, except on more favourable terms. The

By Maggie Fenwick, former UNISON health branch secretary A recent TUC report, called Austerity and the Pandemic, highlighted the complete lack of preparedness of the

Northern Ireland: Labour leaders creating illusions
Letter from Harry Hutchinson, Labour Party Northern Ireland Both former and present Labour Party leaders have plunged themselves into the divided issue of Irish Unity

By Michael Roberts In the second quarter of this year, the UK economy grew by a ‘staggering’ 0.2% in real GDP. The media and government

TV review: electric cars and the ‘market’
By Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member. There is a very good new BBC series on the issues around ‘zero-carbon’ and the first, on

By Deborah Harrington Labour’s Mission driven government: building an NHS fit for the future outlines precisely the kind of population health management approach which is