The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
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Claire Galloway
Today’s interconnected conflicts are enriching the arms industry while pushing the entire world towards permanent militarisation, argues ROGER McKENZIE
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The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
SOLIDARITY was not in short supply when British McDonalds workers staged their first ever strike last autumn, but few could match the display of commitment shown by the Glasgow-based young trade unionists who rose at dawn to board a coach to the capital, attending the strike rally at Parliament Square before returning to Scotland the same day.
It should be no surprise, therefore, that it’s a Scottish group — Better Than Zero (often branded as >ZERO) — which is at the forefront of the fight for precarious workers’ rights.
Campaign organiser Claire Galloway, herself a member of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union, says fast food workers have been a key priority. “Over the past six months, we’ve been working with those in precarious workplaces, particularly fast food branches — McDonalds and KFC.”
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