Under the recently published government “Roadmap,” it will be October 2026 before the changes on fire and rehire are brought into force, the Bill’s provisions on zero-hours contracts, bereavement ...

The Labour government would be more sure-footed, and more successful, if it listened a little harder to what the trade unions ...

The only way that we will build on the successes of the Tolpuddle Martyrs and other struggles throughout history is by ...

“If you want to reintegrate people, rebuild a sense of community and fairness, the first thing you can do is bring in sectoral bargaining, and we’ll get back into those areas that have been ...

Loveless and his companions were detained at Dorchester Castle pending trial. On March 15 1834, a grand jury of local magistrates and landowners was sworn in at the Dorchester Assizes to decide if ...

The work of US historian Bruce Cumings offers a full and fair understanding of what went before June 25 1950, and what came later. While US combat forces had exited the South in 1949, financial ...

The stark reality is born home by the realisation that the extra theatrical fact of the author’s actual death is inevitably central to its powerful message, surely made even more telling today, with ...

GERMANY deported dozens of Afghan men to their homeland today, the second time it has done so since the Taliban returned to power and despite the regime’s dire human rights record. German authorities ...

In telling Flynn’s story, Mary Anne Trasciatti also provides a history of the repression of the US left during Flynn’s lifetime: she discusses the Smith Act, the McCarran Act, and the prosecutions of ...

Chile and Peru were two other countries in which Britain established rail networks in order to transport Guano and Saltpetre, the first an agricultural fertiliser and the latter a vital ingredient of ...

BOWLER-HATTED eccentric, brolly-toting mystic, compulsive iconoclast and self-destructive drinker. These were aspects of Erik Satie I encountered as a teenager when, enthralled by his music on the ...

RENEWED clashes broke out overnight between Druze armed groups and members of Bedouin clans in southern Syria on Thursday ...