@labourunionsuk solidarity with trans workers 🏳️‍⚧️ ✊️🌈

A clear message from our Chair: "Just because something is the law, does not mean it is right. Laws can be wrong. Section 28 was the law, and it was wrong. And you know what the Labour government did? It changed the law. It can be done. It must be done."

Joint Statement from National TULO - Labour's 11 affiliated unions. Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

The Ukrainian town of Maryinka was located in the Donetsk region. Before the arrival of russian troops, it was a cozy, green, and peaceful town with a population of about 10,000 people. General education and music schools, kindergartens, community centers, and local businesses operated here. Having been a frontline zone since 2014 as a result of the war in Donbas, the town lived under the constant threat of shelling for a long time, yet it preserved life and infrastructure. Maryinka suffered absolute, total destruction, turning into a "ghost town" that has been virtually wiped off the face of the earth. The destruction of the town was the result of nearly two years of continuous, brutal artillery shelling, airstrikes, and positional assaults during the full-scale invasion. The battles for Maryinka were among the longest and most exhausting of the war. Not a single intact building remains in the town: the entire housing stock-private homesteads and apartment buildings, as well as critical infrastructure, roads, schools, and administrative facilities have been completely destroyed. The civilian population was fully evacuated by the end of 2022. In late December 2023, Ukrainian troops withdrew from the ruins of the town after it was completely obliterated by russian assaults. Currently, Maryinka is under russian occupation, presenting a landscape of solid ruins. This is what it means to neighbor russia...

BIG NEWS Motion 78 to TUC Congress, for a campaign to free the imprisoned Zaporizhzhia nuclear workers and to reaffirm solidarity with Ukraine passed unanimously or virtually unanimously (we couldn't see any hands again, no card vote called as so overwhelming). #TUC26 #TUC2026

•⁠ ⁠We need to introduce sectoral collective bargaining across every sector in the UK. •⁠ ⁠We need to protect workers from AI instead of protecting the profits of big tech. •⁠ ⁠We need to unify the working class in the face of a growing threat from the far right. •⁠ ⁠And we need to reform the TUC, so it can better serve working class people and bring about real change. This was my message to this year’s TUC.

Excluding a trans woman from internal Party democracy is divisive and cruel. Solidarity @EBrothersLabour

The right decision

The price of protest in Iran - broken feet, ripped-out hair and now a death sentence: the fate of twin sisters theguardian.com/world/2026/s…

This Labor Day, record 47% of Americans want more powerful unions axios.com/2026/09/03/labor-u…

The curious case of James Orr at Cambridge University 21percent.org/?p=4327

This is worrying

Russia’s influence in Africa is not built on partnership but on taking gold & diamonds, flooding social media & local outlets with coordinated lies, propping up compliant juntas through political interference & using extreme violence. Here’s what I know: piped.video/AvIVmrXxU5Q?si=EJtW…

UK risks falling behind in AI race without faster telecoms upgrades, say executives theguardian.com/technology/2…

It’s a good thing he doesn’t own any horses. Otherwise he’d be appointing one to the Senate any time now?

Khrystyna Levchenko of Atomprofspilka and Ivanna Khrapko of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine, with National Union of Mineworkers general secretary Chris Kitchen

The Saints who defied gender norms

Ukranian trade unionists Khrystyna Levchenko, from the Atomprofspilka union whose members have been imprisoned by Russia, and Ivanna Khrapko from the State Employees Union, join the PCS Ofgem picket this morning in solidarity. Hear them speak tomorrow: eventbrite.com/e/free-the-za…

This Transgender History Month, pray to Catholic saints who defied gender norms ncronline.org/node/338131 via @NCRonline