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From left to right: Richard Burgon, Labour MP for Leeds East; Sam Browse from Labour Assembly Against Austerity; Holly Turner, campaigner from NHS Workers Say No, and Asad Rehman, War on Want director
ACTIVISTS and trade unionists must resist the cops inside our heads if we are ever to defeat the Tories’ attacks on our hard-won democratic rights, a meeting at The World Transformed (TWT) festival heard today.
Holly Turner, a nurse and activist with the NHS Workers Say No campaign, made the call on a panel focused on how the left should push back against the government’s anti-strike and anti-protest laws.
“A lot of the anti-trade union laws that we have been internalised,” she told the audience at the left-wing festival running alongside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
We are experiencing a wave of organised, often deadly violence targeting migrants from other parts of Africa — but the poorest South Africans reject this hatred, staying true to the spirit of Ubuntu and Pan-African unity, reports NIGEL BRANKEN
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street