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Unions get a legal right to walk into workplaces from October
A new legal right will let unions request access to almost any workplace with 21 or more staff, whether or not they already have members there. Here’s what's changing and where the limits lie.
The spycops scandal was never about a few bad officers – it was state policy
New evidence to the undercover policing inquiry shows senior officers knew the Special Demonstration Squad’s infiltration of protest groups couldn’t be justified – yet the Home Office and Cabinet Office let it continue for decades.
From pit villages to retail parks: How the working class can win again
Andrew Hedges reviews a new book, published this week, that doubles as a portrait of his own County Durham and argues that the left must learn from Thatcher’s success at ‘subject formation’ if it wants to build one of its own.
When coverage stops being scrutiny and starts being a hunt
Jason Arday resigned amid plagiarism claims. Then the media kept coming. A week later, he was found dead – and the press has serious questions to answer.
Green groups call on Burnham to end silence on climate change
More than 50 organisations, from Greenpeace to Friends of the Earth, have written to the prime minister demanding he name fossil fuels as the cause of this summer’s extreme weather.
Migrant nurses exploited by care employers, RCN report finds
Nearly 400 cases of exploitation in three years, from illegal repayment demands to underpayment and bullying – as the RCN calls on Andy Burnham’s government to end employers’ grip on nurses’ visas.
Group chat blues? Root & Branch offers an antidote
As the left fractures across parties, unions and none, a new platform wants to rebuild the connections WhatsApp groups were never built to hold.
Wales first minister and deputy say Israel’s actions in Gaza amount to genocide
Welsh political leaders make one of the strongest statements yet from a devolved UK government on Gaza.
Trust in news collapses to record low over biased coverage
A new Reuters Institute report reveals global trust in news has fallen to its lowest point in over a decade. It’s the direct result of mainstream outlets peddling false balance and biased coverage on Gaza, Ukraine and migration – and it's exactly why Left Field exists.