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THIS election is on a knife edge and GMB members in every constituency across Wales are out now canvassing and campaigning for Labour candidates.  First, it just has to be Labour. No other party has trade unionism stamped into its soul in the same way.   We say this with pride — Labour achievements, from the establishment of the NHS to devolution and the establishment of the Senedd, are trade union achievements.  They are delivered in partnership with the party that we established and that...

LAST week I argued the trade union priority for our recovery must be to make work better through campaigning and organising; fighting for better pay and conditions, better rights and safety, and better opportunities and prospects for the people we represent and seek to represent, who do the work that underpins the whole of our society.  Recent trade union events on both sides of the Atlantic have only served to reinforce this point of view. While the disputes at Amazon in Bessemer and British...

Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/36668 British gas workers strike again from 20 January Submitted by AWL on 19 January, 2021 - 7:03 Author: Ollie Moore At a public online rally on 18 January for the British Gas engineers striking against “fire-and-rehire” attacks on their pay and conditions (see page 24), Paul Vowles, a British Gas striker from the West Midlands, said he was “bursting with pride” at the action he and his workmates have taken so far. He cr...

8 Silent Night (2020), directed by Will Thorne, combines festivity, crime, classic twists and humour in a well-balanced manner, making for a must-watch film. Thorne shines in his direction here. Having previously directed music promos and content for Universal Music and Sony, it is no surprise that  Silent Night is as emotive as it is. The dull colour palette that persists throughout reflects the Britishness at the core of the film, and also the frightening themes explored. Stark poverty and a...

Share with: Its one of those coincidences that occasionally happen with film releases in that Silent Night has come out at around the same time as another, that while fundamentally different, share novel ideas. I can’t say which as itll give the game away. The important matter is they can be both be enjoyed in their own right. Mark (Bradley Taylor) is an ex-con released just before Christmas and determined to go straight. Its tough, and harder still as he can only get low quality jobs that...