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Workplace news
Fantastic virtual NSSN conference: “Fight for our lives and livelihoods”
Homerton hospital workers deserve equal pay and conditions
Jobcentre reopening: only union struggle will put safety first
Southampton UCU: election victory for combative rank and file
Tower Hamlets council workers strike against wholesale attack on terms and conditions
Nottingham unions fight council job cuts
News
Fight for every job, fight for socialism
Thousands of jobs already destroyed. Thousands more announced almost every day. The ‘job retention scheme’ is turning into a jobs haemorrhage as the government starts to wind it down, with a view to scrapping it in October.
Young people have no choice but to fight the system
Leicester: End the scandal of sweatshop labour
Why has there been a spike in people testing positive for Covid-19 in Leicester? It is most prevalent in areas that have a thriving underworld of sweatshops.
Covid pandemic and Northern Ireland – workers must resist the bosses’ offensive
The coronavirus pandemic hit Northern Ireland at the very same time as the political parties in the Assembly (Stormont) were re-establishing a power-sharing Executive for the first time in over three years
£1,600 less benefits if your job goes – while super-rich splash cash
Testing: Tories’ £5bn gift to private sector
Johnson blames care workers for deaths
Boris Johnson has tried to shift the blame for the scandal of mass Covid-19 deaths in care homes.
£3bn green pledge: not enough for climate or jobs
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has promised £3 billion of green investment. Goals include ‘decarbonising’ public buildings, insulating private homes, and creating work.
Poverty rises again – especially for BAME workers
No going back
No going back: Nationalise social care!
Campaigns
The best place to start – join the Socialist Party
Trans rights protests oppose Tory backsliding
Black Lives Matter – the fight is not over
International news
Hong Kong: The fight for democratic rights
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong on 1 July on the 23rd anniversary of the settlement between London and Beijing, which marked the end of more than 150 years of British rule of the colony
Bangladesh: Stop closure and privatisation of Jute Mills
Readers’ opinion
TV: The school that tried to end racism
This series showed an experiment with a group of Year 7 students in a South London school to explore how racism was learnt