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Unite has never looked so alone
It’s at war with the Labour government it helped elect
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The battle for Royal Mail
In one of our oldest institutions we can find the story of modern Britain: a struggle between workers and the…
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Paul Nowak: “I think Nigel Farage is taking the piss”
The TUC boss on immigration, workers’ rights, and why the union movement needs the Labour Party
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Trade unionist Joe Rollin: “Orgreave was a trap, and we fell for it”
The campaigner on justice for striking miners, 40 years on.
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GMB chief Gary Smith: “Oil and gas is not the enemy”
The trade union leader on Labour’s net zero folly and why it can’t win in Scotland.
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Sharon Graham: Unite’s Labour affiliation “getting harder to justify”
The Unite boss on Labour, Angela Rayner, Corbyn-Sultana and dissafilation.
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Are Unite and Labour heading for divorce?
The union’s disaffiliation threat is real but its leader Sharon Graham fears the “personality cult” of a new left party.
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Unite’s dirty war on Angela Rayner
The battle between the union and the Deputy Prime Minister prefigures more strife for this Labour government.
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Eddie Dempsey on why Britain needs a trade union revival
The RMT general secretary is a product of the old left. Can his vision of a popular, resurgent labour movement…
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Arthur Scargill’s crumbling Camelot
Forty years ago, Margaret Thatcher defeated Britain’s miners. Now their union is dissolving – and their former leader is in…
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Britain is trapped in the Long Seventies
Thatcherism is a dead ideology – so why does it still confine our economic imagination?
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We can’t let the government weaken the unions
Politicisation of strikes is what is motivating anti-union legislation.
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Unite chief: “I’ve seen zilch on Labour’s green prosperity plan”
At this week’s TUC conference, Sharon Graham and other union leaders reflected the split in the left over net zero.
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Why Sharon Graham’s election as Unite general secretary has pleased all wings of Labour
The victory of someone focused on workplace issues is viewed as good for the party and the trade union movement.
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