Today was my first day back at work for an organisation facing the prospect of further redundancies following the loss of a thousand jobs since the last General Election. There are three things to be said about the Tory proposal…
The unseemly haste which has been the hallmark of the unnecessary interference with the Labour Party constitution initiated by the Leader’s July speech has been reasserted this weekend with the publication of Ed Miliband’s proposals, arising from the Collins Review,…
It's a good thing more and more people are waking up to the potential implications of the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill. With the Electoral Commission describing its restrictions on political campaigning by non-Party organisations…
Over two centuries working people have fought for our rights in the workplace and wider society. Among our victories have been those of the Chartists and the Suffragettes (and Suffragists) who won us the franchise. The right to choose who…
Today the national negotiators representing the employers of more than a million local government workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (the largest organised bargaining group in the UK economy) made a final pay offer of 1% with no strings,…
This morning readers of the websites of the liberal broadsheets can choose between a story alleging that the RMT have let down a female activist complaining of domestic violence by a senior official (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rmt-accused-of-dismissing-attack-claim-by-activist-8527208.html) and yet another chapter in the…
With tremendous chutzpah, Eric Pickles is slating councils who dare to exercise their democratic right to increase Council Tax (http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21226239). In so doing he makes clear the nature of the trap into which local authorities have walked by accepting Council…
Today was my first day back at work for an organisation facing the prospect of further redundancies following the loss of a thousand jobs since the last General Election. There are three things to be said about the Tory proposal…
I'm not sure if getting the headline on the letters page of the Grauniad necessarily signifies an upturn in the class struggle. However, a good UNISON comrade, George Binette, has managed to shame the paper into headlining his letter about…
Our Party is not where it needs to be now to win a General Election in 2015. Opposition to austerity is being drawn around Farage (our very own Poujade), and around the poisonous nostalgia of the populist right. UKIP is…
Owen Jones once more makes constructive use of the platform he has as a columnist to call for “a movement uniting all those desperate for a coherent alternative to the tragedy of austerity” and, in so doing, throws down a challenge to…
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