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
On Friday October 25 RMT members employed by outsourcing specialists Mitie to service and clean First Great Western trains mobilised 50 noisy, exuberant strikers on a picket line at London’s Paddington station.
They are demanding their employer raise pay rates from their current £6.37 an hour, which hardly covers the cost of travel to work and is barely above national minimum wage — upped to £6.31 this month — to pay a London living wage, currently set at £8.55 an hour.
It is a sobering fact that in order for a worker not to claim social security benefit a London living wage would need to be £10.70 an hour.
Can Andy Burnham’s programme deliver a productive economy – or merely a softer version of capitalism, asks VINCE MILLS
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT


