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USDAW members rejected giving the British people a say over future membership of the European Union yesterday.
Conference overwhelmingly backed a motion opposing a referendum on staying in the capitalist bloc, claiming British workers would lose rights and key trade with European neighbours.
North West Tesco delegate Mark Begley, a former coalminer, made the case for democracy, pointing out that EU legislation was behind the pit closures that have blighted communities up and down Britain.
The West’s dangerous pesticide dumping in Africa is threatening biodiversity, population health and food sovereignty, argues ROGER McKENZIE
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
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street