Sounding off

Kevin Courtney, chair of the TOGETHER alliance and former NEU general secretary on why working-class people need to unite It’s easy to see why so many people have lost faith in mainstream politics. Our country has become more and more difficult for working people since the banking crash of 2008. It...

Ben Selby explains how men in the fire and rescue service can take part in White Ribbon Day this year The White Ribbon movement began in 1991, founded by a group of men who sought to challenge and prevent violence against women and girls. Statistics on gender-based violence are still shocking today...

Billionaires have broken Britain and wrecked the climate – we must make them pay to fix it, writes James O’Nions of Global Justice Now The NHS is crumbling, schools are underfunded, energy bills keep rising – and billionaires keep getting richer. We’re in a crisis of inequality, but successive...

Frieda Lurken, a climate campaigner with a background in public health, explains how firefighters can raise the alarm with the Heat Strike campaign A quick glance at recent UK headlines and you would assume that politicians are quaking in their boots as summer approaches. Spring in England the UK...

No firefighter joins the fire and rescue service to prevent people from protesting, says Mark Chapman, FBU Southern regional secretary. As a humanitarian service, our primary aim is to prevent suffering and loss caused by fires and other disasters. But in recent years, we have seen repeated...

Shaka Hislop, former Premier League footballer and president of Show Racism the Red Card, on the importance of persevering with anti-racist education As I reflect on the last year, the racist riots that shook the UK last summer serve as a reminder of how far we still have to go. It was a frightening...

When a multinational corporation threatened to close a factory in Italy, workers fought back with a plan for a green transition solution. Their rank and-file collective explains why their vision matters to workers everywhere. In October a UK trade union delegation visited our former GKN auto...

Elkan Abrahamson is a solicitor and campaigner with Hillsborough Law Now Following the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, at which 97 people lost their lives, bereaved families have spent decades fighting to reveal the truth. Exposures which followed led to the campaign for a “Hillsborough law”. It was...

Bus fires are a serious concern and they are occurring far too frequently. RMT has been at the forefront of highlighting this issue says Mick Lynch, general secretary of the RMT transport union. A study by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) recognised the importance of timely reporting...

Uri Weltmann, national field organiser of the Standing Together movement More than eight months after the 7 October Hamas attacks and Israel’s reaction, our country continues to be engulfed in pain and misery. The death toll in Gaza approaches 40,000 people – including around 15,000 children – and a...