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A festival celebrating trade union solidarity took place in Leyton on Sunday, and Unite Community members were at the heart of it. Unions East took place in Coronation Gardens under the banner of “Celebrating solidarity in our community and our workplaces” and pulled in a big crowd. Despite the heatwave hitting the area there was […]
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Dan Gallin, the former general secretary of the International Union of Foodworkers (IUF) passed away at his home in Geneva at the end of last month at the age of 94. He was to me,…Read more…
Unite branches across North London, joined with Trades Councils, unions and campaign groups in a show of solidarity with striking Birmingham bin workers last night (Wednesday 21), at a time when the Birmingham Bin Strike is escalating. Unite branches including the London Building Workers Branch (LE UG005), Haringey Craft Workers (LE/UG130) Wood Green Bus Garage […]
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Construction workers and activists gathered at the Building Worker statue at Tower Hill in central London this Monday (April 28) for an International Workers Memorial Day commemoration. The annual Unite event is sadly still as relevant this year as ever, with the latest statistics showing that construction is the most dangerous sector to have a […]
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Public opinion polls in Israel consistently show that Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government cannot win the next election. The parties of the centre and left are consistently polling higher than those of the right. And it’s…Read more…
The Left has a long and proud history of anti-militarism. One cannot help but look back in admiration at the American Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs who went to prison after making an anti-war speech…Read more…
Last week I interviewed Lizaveta Merliak, who runs Salidarnast, a group campaigning in support of the embattled independent trade union movement in Belarus. Liza was an activist in the Belarusian unions who was forced to…Read more…
Unite activists have been telling Veolia shareholders across Europe that they will not go away and will continue to fight for recognition at the French waste giant’s Sheffield waste depot. As Veolia continues to refuse union recognition for workers at the depot in Yorkshire, Unite has continued to escalate the dispute. This week activists travelled […]
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At the start of the Cold War, in 1952, a book came out in the USA and Britain entitled “The Russian Menace to Europe”. The authors were listed as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A…Read more…
As Karl Marx famously wrote in 1852, “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as…Read more…
“More than 100 female prisoners were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma, according to the UN.” That’s from a BBC report a few days ago. This horrific…Read more…
Last Monday was Donald Trump’s first day in office as President and he raced to issue a series of “executive orders”. One would imagine that these reflected his highest priorities as well as those of…Read more…
The new film about the early years of Bob Dylan’s career, “A Complete Unknown,” is a brilliant, must-see film. Timothée Chalamet is outstanding as the young Dylan — not only as an actor, but as…Read more…
Twenty years ago, some the largest unions in the United States broke away from the AFL-CIO claiming that it was not doing enough to organise workers. Everyone understood that the labour movement was rapidly shrinking,…Read more…
The pro-Moscow ruling party in Georgia, billionaire Bdzina Ivanishvili’s “Georgian Dream,” is growing increasingly desperate in its attempts to hold on to power following the 26 October elections. First, they bungled the attempt to steal…Read more…
Wrexham Council has shown solidarity with workers on strike at food manufacturer Oscar Mayer, and backed their campaign against the producers planned fire and rehire policy. Around 600 Oscar Mayer workers, the vast majority of the factory’s workforce, have been striking since September over the company’s plans to fire and rehire them to slash pay […]
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Unite was out in force on Friday morning (29th November), organising colourful and noisy protest in support of a member who has been removed from his workplace simply for highlighting the dangers of onsite asbestos. Danny Thomas is an electrician who had been working for Llorets at the large Victoria House refurbishment site on Southampton […]
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Georgia’s increasingly authoritarian and pro-Russian government has made a major miscalculation. Protests against the fraudulent elections on 26 October were showing signs of dying down. When the Georgian Parliament met — with all the opposition…Read more…
Speech by Hugh Lanning of Labour & Palestine on UN Day Of Solidarity “We can’t de-elect Trump, but we can focus on trying to make Labour and the UK be an independent voice for Palestine.” Hugh Lanning is one of … Continue reading Read more…
At the recent G20 Leaders’ Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the Director General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Gilbert F. Houngbo, praised the leaders for recognising the need for social justice and decent work….Read more…