The National Emergency Briefing outlines the need for urgent action to address environmental crisis, says PAUL DONOVAN, warning that there’s no time to indulge the arguments of the fossil-fuel-funded climate-change deniers
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Unfinished business over blacklisting
Far from being confined to corporations and the police, blacklisting of trade unionists in the construction industry was colluded in by the trade union movement itself. DAVE SMITH hopes that the full truth will finally come out
Campaigners say criticism of Labour MP Stephen Morgan’s position on Gaza has been met with police intervention and cancelled opportunities for debate. HESTER WOLFE reports
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights warns of escalation danger in Iran war
Claudia Webbe pays tribute tribute to KANYA KING CBE, February 12 1964 to June 3 2026
The Milburn review presents itself as a plan to help young people into work, but Dr DYLAN MURPHY argues it is laying the groundwork for a harsher benefits regime
Campaigners from across the continent will gather in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services, write MAGGIE SIMPSON and BOB ORAM of No Cold War Britain
WHEN we started the anti-blacklisting campaign, we concentrated our efforts on exposing the conspiracy by big business and the police.
It was directors of multinational corporations who ran the notorious anti-union Economic League and Consulting Association blacklists — an operation that lasted five decades and involved a two-way sharing of intelligence about union activists between company executives and Britain’s secretive political police units.
Over the past 12 years, uncovering corporate and state wrongdoing has led to new legislation, a select committee investigation, record compensation, a public apology in the High Court and a dedicated union strand in the ongoing public inquiry into undercover policing.
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