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HOW long have Labour supporters waited to hear such firm pledges on bread-and-butter issues, as John McDonnell gave at the weekend?
Many despaired during the New Labour years when party leaders hanging on the City’s every word lectured members and affiliated trade unionists to get into the real world.
The real world for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown was a big business paradise where regulation was minimal, the finance sector was free to let rip, courtesy of Margaret Thatcher’s mid-1980s City “Big Bang,” and the working class was beaten or cajoled into accepting a growing chasm between rich and poor.
In the final part of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explains how in 2018, after years spent rebuilding the PCS into a leading force against austerity, a damaging rupture emerged from within the union’s own left wing
Deep disillusionment with the Westminster cross-party consensus means rupture with the status quo is on the cards – bringing not only opportunities but also dangers, says NICK WRIGHT
In the run-up to the Communist Party congress in November ROB GRIFFITHS outlines a few ideas regarding its participation in the elections of May 2026
While Reform poses as a workers’ party, a credible left alternative rooted in working-class communities would expose their sham — and Corbyn’s stature will be crucial to its appeal, argues CHELLEY RYAN