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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Rebuffing the pretences of the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty
Labour’s For the Many, Not the Few manifesto contains a 20-point labour rights reform programme. ANDY GREEN looks at the recent intervention in the debate by a minuscule political sectlet
Jeremy Corbyn at the launch in Bradford of the Labour Party manifesto for the general election in 2017
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
READERS of the Morning Star may have recently noticed a new campaign for labour rights has been launched, Free our Unions.
All very commendable. But if we dig a little deeper we discover not a broad-based campaign but a front organisation for the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty (AWL).
It therefore may pay to examine more closely the AWL and its antecedents as its leader and guru, Sean Matgamna, approaches his 80th birthday.
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