There’s a right way and a wrong way for unions to confront job losses, argues Yuri Prasad, and this was highlighted last week by the crisis in the manufacturing industry.

Chris Hickey considers New Labour’s year-on-year drive to keep public sector wages below the rate of inflation.

For public ownership of financial institutions to work, we must rid nationalisation of its historically wasteful image, says Gregor Gall

The Morning Star reflects on the Labour Party conference and the Convention of the Left- both of which are taking place in Manchester.

The recent gains of employment rights for temporary workers are a step forward, says Tom Ramplin, but unionisation and organisation are essential to secure their rights

The weekend festival at Tolpuddle not only commemorates an injustice done to six agricultural workers 174 years ago but serves as a reminder that working people are still denied basic rights today. The Morning Star reports

The Morning Star points to a recent government report praising the huge private profits that have been generated by privatisation as yet more evidence that New Labour is fanatically committed to neo-liberal dogma.

James Meadows describes the impact of harsh new employment conditions on teachers at Harlow College. A massive reduction in wages for many, the introduction of a new unqualified ‘tutor’ role, the imposition of an effective 56-hour working week and reduction of holidays from 45 to 30 days a year led to the teachers taking strike action, whilst Harlow student’s learning experience has rapidly declined.

Rick Grogan reports on how government plans to upgrade the Tyne and Wear Metro have been made conditional on splitting up and privatising the network’s operations and infrastructure.

The Morning Star argues that the proposed merger between Unite and the North American union USW could be an effective bulwark against pressure from multinational corporations to perpetually diminish pay and conditions for working people.

Dave Spooner describes how workers from all over the world are coming together to defend their interests in an exploitative economy