The basis for 20th-century social democracy in Britain is gone, argues ANDREW MURRAY – but there are measures a Burnham government could take that would break with neoliberalism
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‘Today is the beginning of a new and challenging road’
GARY SMITH writes on the GMB’s new direction, how the union will begin to right its past wrongs and seek to be the ‘light upon the hill’ once more
GMB members on strike against Scottish Gas's fire and rehire practices and (right) GMB general secretary-elect Gary Smith
TONY BURKE pays tribute to a dedicated trade unionist and true internationalist who helped organise workers from Britain to Bangladesh
NASUWT leader MATT WRACK says schools are crying out for serious investment — and there are other immediate changes a new prime minister could and should enact
Keir Starmer’s resignation speech seemed to be coming from a different universe, or maybe it was just a fanfaronade of falsehoods, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Starmer will be judged on his record, but it would be wrong to view him in isolation from the crisis of the British political establishment, says the COMMUNIST PARTY in its official statement on the PM’s resignation
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
THE trade union movement is not about individual leadership, superheroes, or career paths. Ambition and calculation have no place within its ranks.
It is a calling: a gut instinct that tells you what is right and what is wrong. It is a collective cause whose watchwords are fairness, decency, and solidarity.
I joined the GMB as an apprentice at Scottish Gas. I knew, instinctively, that this was my union. So, I got involved and became a young members’ activist and a shop steward.
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