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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Learning from Lenin in an era of crises and war
100 years on from his death, the great revolutionary leader’s thinking is extra relevant to today’s time of economic and climate crises, combined with a relentless drive to war, says LOGAN WILLIAMS
Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin and his sister
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
MORE and more activists within our labour, international justice and social movements have begun to acknowledge that we are living through a global economic, social and political crisis on a scale unprecedented in many of our lifetimes.
These are reflected deeply here in imperialist Britain, where the country’s historic economic decline continues.
On the economic front, millions are suffering more and more from the cost-of-living emergency, having already suffered for decades.
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