Andy Burnham’s message of hope will defeat Reform if Labour delivers the New Deal for Working People in full, says JOANNE THOMAS
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Disneyland: workers fight the mouse
The flagship US corporation that dominates our children’s imaginations so completely isn’t ‘providing magic’ for its theme park workers across the world, reports SEAN MELEADY
The government’s latest asylum proposals abandon labour movement values and fuel division by aping Reform UK, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
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
We need a government that invests in saving lives not destroying them, argues SOPHIE BOLT
HENRY FOWLER outlines the GFTU’s new 2026-27 education programme and argues that investing in trade union education is essential to building worker power, developing leaders and strengthening collective action
PAOLO SANTALUCIA reports on how an Italian region defies US pressure to end a Cuban doctors programme
ALTHOUGH for many Brits Disneyland is synonymous with the Paris and Florida Parks, the original park opened in Anaheim, California, in 1955. Disney now also has parks in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
According to marketing, Disneyland is the “happiest place on Earth” — however this hasn’t always been the case for those who work there.
Concerns about working conditions at Disneyland in California and Disneyworld in Florida are nothing new. In 1984 2,000 cast members (as Disney calls its employees) went on strike in protest against a two-year pay freeze, no health insurance for part-time workers and the threat of outsourcing.
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