Why is it so hard to unionise in the gig economy?
Battling isolation and ‘corporate dictatorship’, workers share their challenges of organising in the gig economy
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Here’s why the government’s anti-strike legislation will fail
‘In fast-tracking the Bill, the beleaguered Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is resuscitating the ghost of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’
Calls made for 0.7% international aid target to be reinstated to help protect world’s most vulnerable communities
‘The UK was the only G7 country to cut foreign aid during the pandemic. Its routine failure to meet funding deadlines as well as reinstate the 0.7% target means that far too many people in the developing world are suffering the catastrophic effects of the UK government’s decisions.’
Rise of the right-wing’s bid to infiltrate cornerstones of British society
From the BBC to the NHS, the right has been gnawing away at well-liked British institutions, waging ‘politicised’ campaigns designed to influence direction. And the National Trust, with millions of members, is firmly in their sights.
What next, now Rishi Sunak is prime minister?
Sunak might be seen to have more political nous than his two disgraced predecessors, but he’s an ideologically right-wing Tory from the right of the party. The fact that he’s presented as a pragmatic centrist shows how far to the right the party has swung.
Tory donor charged by US authorities over alleged role in Puerto Rico bribery scheme
Julio Herrera Velutini has given more than £500,000 to the Tories
UnionDues: 5 important discussions on the GMB/Deliveroo agreement
‘Is this a remarkable negotiating coup or a sharp move to take IWGB out of the game?’
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1, June 2022
The news you didn’t see this week…
GB News makes false claims it is ‘bouncing back’
Citing pathetic viewing figures, the right-wing news channel, which plays the National Anthem at the start of the day, insists its audience is growing.
Tory chair seeks to defend voter suppression as ‘perfectly legitimate efforts to reform electoral laws’
Oliver Dowden made the comments during a speech to the Heritage Foundation