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USDAW activists pressed leading Labour figures yesterday to return the party to its roots at a packed fringe on day one of the shopworkers union conference.
Shadow ministers faced tough questions over what Labour will do differently if the party wins next year’s general election.
Manchester delegate, McVitie’s union convener Kevin Dolan said Labour needed to be unashamed of its working-class and trade-union heritage.
With ‘Your Party’ holding its founding conference in Liverpool this weekend, JEREMY CORBYN speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about its potential, its priorities — and a few of its controversies too
Apart from a bright spark of hope in the victory of the Gaza motion, this year’s conference lacked vision and purpose — we need to urgently reconnect Labour with its roots rather than weakly aping the flag-waving right, argues KIM JOHNSON MP
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street