Aslef called off its planned strikes on the Tube after a letter from the company making various concessions on several of the issues under dispute. An almost-identical letter which issued to the RMT, which had been in parallel, but separate, talks with LUL on the same issues.
The working class generates more than just the broad labour movement. It also generates a core of people who become inspired with a revolutionary worldview and who stay active for the cause. Those people will be decisive in bringing about change.
Social movements in Israel such as Standing Together, which organise around a political narrative based on equal rights for Jews and Palestinians, are key forces of hope and for change.
The social media "brand" that is Owen Jones has resigned from the Labour party, saying “It’s difficult to disentangle Labour from my sense of self.” And, indeed, it’s difficult to disentangle his resignation from his self-righteousness.
At a mass demonstration in Tel Aviv on 30 March families of the hostages have openly called, for the first time, for the removal of Netanyahu from power.
Since the start of the academic year many Unis institutions have faced or are facing cuts; the model of higher education funding is broken, we need free education and government investment.
The Local Government Service Group Executive of the public services union Unison has proposed to its conference (16-17 June) to highlight the cuts for funding domestic violence services as a part of a broader campaign for local government funding.
Sara Khan has pointed to the need to promote social cohesion and respect for a democratic culture at local level, but Tory cuts have led to one in five English councils facing bankruptcy and all are making huge cuts.
The polls show that whatever reservations some people may have with Starmer’s handling
of the Israel-Gaza war, support for Labour has continued to rise — not to fall. Why is that?
Over the last two years NEU conference has stopped a poor policy on Ukraine, but the union has yet to adopt a position which backs Ukraine’s right to self-determination.
Haiti, one of the poorest nations in the world, is in catastrophic crisis. The capital, Port-au-Prince, has been taken over by gangs and much of the central state and economic life has ceased to function.
Workers' Liberty has called for “a massive programme of cross-disciplinary and critical research of SRM and other such climate interventions, funded by taxing the rich”.
Alan Woods, chief writer of Socialist Appeal/ Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), claims that Ukraine’s secret services were probably behind the 22 March ISIS attack in Moscow.
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