While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
Health and safety under fire
After the Covid pandemic we are facing deregulation, massive increases in deaths and injuries at work and a bonfire being made of our rights — unless we fight for them, warns MICK HOLDER of Hazards Campaign
Government statistics on deaths from Covid since March 2020 until now totals 190,124, with the greater majority of deaths in the first year of the pandemic — this is regarded as being an underestimate due to methods of recording deaths.
NICK WRIGHT continues his series analysing the trends in European politics
We have the alternative economics, histories of our struggles and the confidence to change the world
General Federation of Trade Unions assistant general secretary HENRY FOWLER reports on the final day from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON
Treating the Clacton by-election as a joke risks reinforcing the Reform leader’s claim to be the victim of an out-of-touch Establishment, argues JOHN McINALLY
MPs and others called for the urgent release of tortured Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, held hostage by Israel and reportedly near death, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
ON International Workers Memorial Day, trade unionists, their families and friends around the globe will remember those killed, disabled, injured and made unwell by their work and re-commit to fighting like hell to prevent injury in the future.
Events will be held around the UK in Scotland, Wales, the North of Ireland and England. Events led by the Hazards Campaign including Scottish Hazards and Greater Manchester Hazards Centre with Families Against Corporate Killers and trade unions, such as doctors in Unite, at the National Covid Memorial Wall remembering the thousands of preventable deaths of workers and others during the pandemic, to people remembering the many thousands of deaths caused by the old Cape Asbestos factory in Barking.
Globally, special attention will be drawn to this summer’s International Labour Conference, the only global tripartite institution, with equal numbers of union, employer and government delegates.
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