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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
This year’s pathetic 2% pay offer for civil servants came hot on the heels of a decade of ‘pay restraint’. It’s not a one-off from the government, it’s a pattern – and industrial action is the only way to change it.
Teachers and support staff are leaving education in droves. There’s one way for the government to stem the flow: reverse twelve years of cuts, abandon austerity 2.0, and pay education workers properly.
In Britain, there’s no formal protection for staff whose employers make life difficult for them because they’ve been on strike – another way our laws put bosses’ interests above workers’ needs.
Last month, the RSPCA made a ‘snap decision’ to sell its only London animal hospital to another charity. Only the threat of strikes stopped the transfer – proof that where charity falls short, organising wins.
Mike Davis, the American geographer and historian, has died. There was no better socialist writer in the last four decades.
Spain’s 2021 ‘Rider Law’ was a breakthrough in employment rights for delivery riders, but giants like Glovo have been all too willing to flout it – so they’ve been slapped with a record €79 million fine.
Picasso was born on this day in 1881. He became a socialist – and went on to prove the power of art as a tool in the fight against oppression and brutality.
For those in power, last year’s vicious anti-protest bill still wasn’t authoritarian enough – so they’ve introduced another that could see you criminalised for something as small as carrying a bike chain.
Last week’s fracking vote made clear there are gaping rifts in the Tory Party’s coalition – and it’s fantasy to think Rishi Sunak can easily knit things back together.
All British universities are facing unprecedented strikes after workers have voted overwhelmingly against cuts to their pay and pensions. Their campaign shows how the fighting mood among working people is growing bigger by the day.
Liz Truss’s plan to move the UK embassy in Israel to Jerusalem was a blatant expression of support for apartheid and annexation. It must be consigned to the dustbin of history alongside her premiership.
Rishi Sunak’s rise to power is designed to shore up British capitalism. He will do it by unleashing a massive new wave of austerity – unless we build a movement to stop him.
The ambulance service is on its knees, but the government won’t listen to workers’ warnings – so today, 15,000 start balloting for a strike.
Grace speaks to Milena Ansari, international advocacy officer at Addameer, the Palestinian prisoner support and human rights organization. They discuss the horrendous practice of administrative detention and the role of the Israeli justice system in upholding the occupation and the oppression of Palestinians.
The Tories’ latest attack on trade unions would conscript transport workers to work against their will – a historic blow to the right to strike that must be fiercely resisted.
After a 35% pay cut in the last ten years, college lecturers now face losing another 10%. They speak to Tribune about why that can’t be allowed to happen.
40 years ago, the Bradford 12 were arrested by a racist police force for trying to defend their community from fascists. Speaking to Tribune, they recall the solidarity that helped secure their freedom, and the ongoing urgency of resistance.
If triggering a recession wasn’t enough, interest rate hikes funnel money into fossil fuel projects over green ones – meaning they’re not just harming our present, but polluting our future.
It would take a heart of stone to watch the speedy downfall of Liz Truss without laughing. But it’s no good letting the market lead the opposition – just imagine their response to a budget that made the changes Britain really needs.
Food inflation has hit 14.6% – its highest level in four decades. As millions more turn to foodbanks to survive, the right to food is fast becoming the frontline of the cost of living crisis.