IAN LAVERY MP says an immediate focus on raising wages and reducing costs must be part of a strategy to show Labour can deliver for workers again
Union support for increased defence spending is a terrible mistake
The idea that we can boost manufacturing by demanding the government builds its bombs in Britain is wrong on many levels — not least by allowing the Tories to divert public spending from welfare to warfare, writes ANDREW MURRAY
An RAF F-35B Lightning stealth jet (left) alongside a United States Air Force F-15 Strike Eagle over the English Channel
Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
World Peace Council president PALLAB SENGUPTA assesses the challenges facing the international peace movement and sends greetings to the Liberation AGM
KIERA MARSHALL says there is a gulf between the privileged circles in which most politicians move and the lives of working-class youth in left-behind estates – and as a newly elected Senedd member she’s determined to do something about it
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
TODAY, tens of thousands are marching for a change of government in the face of an escalating social crisis. The protest is backed by a range of peoples’ organisations, including the TUC, to the latter’s credit.
Yet the critical revival of the trade union movement in recent months — a revival central to any hopes of progress and change — now risks being undermined by a decision of the TUC itself.
As this paper has reported, TUC Congress last month narrowly approved a resolution instructing the general council to “campaign for immediate increases in defence spending.”
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We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
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