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WORKERS’ rights will be central to the next Labour government, party leader Jeremy Corbyn told a huge rally in south Wales at the weekend.
Mr Corbyn delivered the annual Keir Hardie memorial lecture to more than 1,000 people in Aberdare, drawing analogies between the experiences and policies of the first Labour leader and current times.
He said that Keir Hardie had begun work as a child labourer in the Lanarkshire coalfield aged 10, working at the pits until being blacklisted at 23.
IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
KENNY MacASKILL reminds us of the unprecedented political career of a Scottish miner’s militant son who stayed the course and true to his roots
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP