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The Retained EU Law Bill is a disaster in the making
A wide range of employment and health and safety rights derived from EU law were kept after Brexit — but now we must defend these workers’ rights from the Tory bonfire, writes TONY BURKE
EXPLOITATION AHEAD: Outrages like the P&O scandal are a taste of what employers will attempt if unencumbered by our hard-won workplace rights
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
Rising temperatures and human activity are making life far harder for these vital pollinators. ALEX DITTRICH explains
Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners co-founder MIKE JACKSON talks to Matt Kerr about the enduring power of Pride, protest and trade unionism
Behind the language of military strategy is a confrontation that risks drawing the wider Middle East into war, says STEVE BISHOP
THE Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill will scrap over 2,400 pieces of EU legislation currently transposed into UK laws as part of the government’s “Brexit dividend.”
The Bill will, if implemented, wipe out hard-won employment rights that are incorporated into many union agreements and workers’ contracts.
The TUC says the Bill “will cause enormous confusion and chaos for working people and their employers at a particularly difficult time for the economy, and poses a significant threat to workers’ rights. The Bill, if enacted, will sweep away thousands of pieces of legislation and upend decades-worth of case law.”
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