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
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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
There is always hope! – Community vs mining bosses in Turkey
Ray Goodspeed introduces a video from Turkey – “There is Always Hope: Story of İkizköy“ (photo – still from video) This short video (13 minutes
By Michael Roberts The latest measure of US consumer price inflation for July actually showed an uptick in the year-on-year rate to 3.2% from 3%
By Richard Mellor in California I have not studied the recent Teamster contract with the United Parcels Service (UPS) in detail and, as of this
Letter from Mike, a recent migrant to Canada Mike was a Unite shop steward who recently moved to Canada and here he gives his thoughts
By Michael Roberts In Q2 2023 the Chinese economy expanded by 6.3% year-on-year, up from 4.5% yoy recorded in Q1. Sounds strong, but quarterly growth
After scraping home in the by-election in Uxbridge, Rishi Sunak thinks he is onto a good thing pretending to be the ‘friend of the motorist’.
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