The trauma of the pandemic, reduced pay in the context of inflation, and the weight of years of austerity in government health spending. Under these combined pressures, midwives in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service are choosing to leave the occupation entirely – leading to critical [...]Read the full article
“The fact that Turkey continues to buy plastic waste from the EU while producing so much plastic itself is due to the growth of the recycling sector. But there’s also another problem here. Research shows that only nine per cent of the plastic produced to date can be [...]Read the full article
“Everywhere I go within care and speak to our members, they ask us, why can NHS staff negotiate their pay on a national level, but we can’t? The care workforce is bigger than that of the NHS, and the skill sets are very similar. Collective bargaining is the first level of investment we would [...]Read the full article
“Jeremy Corbyn doesn’t exist in history now, and all the purges [of the Labour party], the manipulation of the rules, and the straight aggression has been unbelievable.”Read the full article
In Europe, growing awareness of the social inequalities in exposure to air pollution is as yet to be translated into public policy, despite the work being done by scientists and citizens to analyse and raise consciousness about the impact on the most exposed [...]Read the full article
As temperatures reach all-time highs, so to does the number of deadly attacks on environmentalists in the Global South. Meanwhile, in the Global North, climate activists are also facing a growing threat to freedom of assembly and the right to [...]Read the full article
“This is a very simple story - a story of ongoing colonialism in the 21st century, carried out, perpetuated and perpetrated by both the British and US governments.”Read the full article
Robert Maisey:This cosy relationship between private companies and government, leveraging a national crisis to facilitate an accelerated transfer of wealth from public to private, can only be given one name: corruption.Read the full article
Ruwan Subasinghe:“What this cat and mouse game with Uber highlights more broadly is the ever-widening imbalance between capital and labour.”Read the full article
Between 500 and 800 migrants survive under extremely precarious conditions in Calais, northern France. Despite daily evictions from camps and increasing police pressure, they hold out the hope of making the crossing to the United [...]Read the full article
For the Scottish labour movement, COP26 offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to ensure that Scotland’s world-leading emissions targets put a just transition for workers and communities at the centre of all policies, investments and [...]Read the full article
“If the COVID-19 pandemic requires those who are able to work from home to continue to do so during Ramadan, this may make fasting easier. People will be able to rest when they would have been commuting, they can utilise their own prayer space and they won’t have to worry about things like team [...]Read the full article
“British Steel would not have gone into liquidation but for the threat of a no-deal exit from the EU. That’s an incontrovertible fact.”Read the full article
Rashmee Roshan Lall:The point of a new travel model would be to forge the real linkages that enrich the visitor just as much as the people and the place they have visited. This has never been more important.Read the full article
It has been two years since 72 people lost their lives following a fire at Grenfell Tower in London, but survivors and families of the bereaved still have very few answers.Read the full article
Nick Dearden:“We can beat climate change, use artificial intelligence to build a better world and restrain corporate power. But we can only do so by forming networks, locally, nationally and internationally.”Read the full article
In Europe, local newspapers have lost readers’ trust and support, but new media outlets are emerging with a different approach. In South America and Africa, meanwhile, new opportunities are emerging to build counterpower at local [...]Read the full article
Helen Lackner:Regardless of its weaknesses, the Stockholm Agreement is a first sign of hope for 29 million Yemenis who are desperately waiting for peace.Read the full article
“Collective thinking is where we’ll find the answers” to the politics of individualism that has caused us to “stop learning how to act as a community”.Read the full article
Stan De Spiegelaere:Is the gradual extension of part-time contracts a natural way of decreasing working time for the benefit of all?Read the full article
Amongst key UK outsourcing corporations, Carillion collapsed in January 2018. Capita is in crisis. There is an escalating financial crisis in local government funding. All of which have fed public sentiment against privatisation.Read the full article
Many Commonwealth countries are currently dependent on Britain to facilitate trade across Europe, so the whole Brexit move leaves us very vulnerable. But I don’t even think that Britain knows what Brexit means for them right now. Or for the [...]Read the full article
Some students are using the commodification of education to show solidarity with their striking lecturers. At King’s College, also University of London, some students are petitioning the university for a full refund of tuition fees for the days of strike [...]Read the full article
Kiri Kankhwende:Arming the police will not make Britain safer, but could exacerbate existing inequalities in the justice system and increase the risk of further black deaths in custody.Read the full article
Steve Cotton:The ITF is not against new transport technologies, but we are against a return in the 21st century to the employment conditions of the 19th century.Read the full article
“I’m a cleaner and a human being. I have the right to get sick, see my family on holidays or retire after working hard, just like the professors.”Read the full article
“While both the EU and UK are saying that they want to protect workers’ rights, and that they won’t use workers as bargaining chips, it is becoming clear that this is exactly what is happening.”Read the full article
Aidan McQuade:As the proportions and specific horrors of the catastrophe that will be Brexit become clearer by the day, it seems beyond rationality that the UK government and much of the opposition still seems intent on embracing the disaster.Read the full article