In the wake of his recent humanitarian visit to Cuba, RICHARD BURGON points to the now urgent need to defend the island’s political sovereignty and its right to self-determination
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Trade unionists are mobilising to support Cuban workers and public services, amid escalating US pressure on the socialist island. RONAN OGILVY explains
The next few months will prove crucial for the labour and trade union movement and for all working people. We are faced with two stark alternatives.
On the one hand, we have an unstable right-wing government, intent of enforcing decades of austerity onto working people. Our schools and our NHS have been opened up to private profit and, in or out of the EU, the vultures are circling. Our unions remain shackled by the most regressive anti-union laws in Europe.
On the other hand, we have the biggest opportunity for working people in a generation: the chance of a Labour government which will actually listen to the working class. A government which will end austerity and invest in our economy, which will bring our public services back into public ownership and control, which will abolish the unjust anti-union laws which tie one hand behind our back and replace them with pro-worker legislation, including the restoration of collective bargaining.
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