Durham Miners’ Association chair STEPHEN GUY speaks to Ben Chacko about the Reform threat, what’s needed from Labour and why the Big Meeting will never lose its politics
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Desperate Establishment resorts to fear-mongering
CALLUM ALEXANDER SCOTT traces the history of anti-communism and anti-terrorism as a means of demonising individuals and groups who threaten existing power and privilege
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Andy Burnham’s message of hope will defeat Reform if Labour delivers the New Deal for Working People in full, says JOANNE THOMAS
General Federation of Trade Unions president and bakers’ union general secretary, SARAH WOOLLEY, guides us through the GFTU’s Summer School happening this week at Quorn Grange Hotel
The government’s latest asylum proposals abandon labour movement values and fuel division by aping Reform UK, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Can Andy Burnham’s programme deliver a productive economy – or merely a softer version of capitalism, asks VINCE MILLS
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
A SPECTRE is haunting Britain’s right-wing newspapers — the spectre of desperation.
Devoid of credibility and condemned to watch the slow collapse of their neoliberal weltanschauung (world outlook), it seems all they have left to exploit is the power of fear.
“Commie spy,” “loony lefty,” “traitor,” “Britain-hating ideologue,” “terrorist sympathiser” and “threat to our national security.” These are just a few of the desperately absurd scare-terms the right-wing press has tried to pin on Jeremy Corbyn over the past few years.
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