“The richest one per cent pocketed 66 per cent of all new wealth created since the pandemic began. Just 10 individuals now have more wealth than the poorest three billion people on earth” - Jon Trickett MP
Tag: Cost-of-living crisis
This government holds its own workers in total contempt – Mark Serwotka, PCS General Secretary Exclusive #MayDay2023
The PCS keeps fighting & is currently reballoting over 130,000 members to renew their mandate for strike action.
As ‘The Big One’ highlights the climate emergency, the Tories are failing people & planet on every count – John McDonnell MP exclusive
“Our (mis) leaders then simply can’t be trusted to develop an agenda that take on the vested interests of big business, but this is exactly what is needed to tackle the climate emergency.”
Strike Clubs are a way to build solidarity – Holly Turner
The aim of the Strike Clubs is to help turn “clicktivism” into on the ground activism.
Our leaders will not save us! Why trade unionists Back the BIG ONE – Jenny Cooper, NEU Executive
"Our leaders will not save us; that much is clear by now. After 27 COPs, they continue with their much quoted “blah blah blah” but they nearly all have at least one foot dipped in the fossil fuel lobby."
Organise around the health strikes and give them solidarity to win – Ben Folley
"As both health disputes face a stalemate with no signs the government will improve its offer, it is necessary for the wider movement to organise around the unions strikes and give them additional solidarity to ensure they win."
Year of Strikes Show Class Struggle Is Back
“The breadth of those taking action demonstrates the anger felt across the working class in Britain.”
Engels was right – the wealth of the super-rich is accumulated on the backs of the rest of us. Jon Trickett.
“The world has changed hugely since his day. But if Engels came back today, I am sure he would still see the old dialectic at work. The old system still prevails, only in a new shape.” - Jon Trickett.
Teachers, like their comrades on strike from other sectors, are worth the pay – Ian Lavery MP exclusive
"Teachers are worth the pay. Much of the work they do goes unnoticed, yet once they are gone we will be forced to sit up & pay attention."
Defend Democracy! By Islington Friends of Jeremy Corbyn
“At a time when the government is attacking our rights to strike, protest & vote, the Labour leadership should be defending democracy. Instead, it is debasing it.” - Jeremy Corbyn