Durham Miners’ Association chair STEPHEN GUY speaks to Ben Chacko about the Reform threat, what’s needed from Labour and why the Big Meeting will never lose its politics
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We are winning this fight
General secretary of the STUC ROZ FOYER salutes an almost unprecedented year of workers’ struggle that now has to stamp its will on the governments of Britain
YEAR OF ACTION: Roz Foyer speaks at the STUC’s Scotland Demands Better rally in Edinburgh, December 8 2022
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Andy Burnham’s message of hope will defeat Reform if Labour delivers the New Deal for Working People in full, says JOANNE THOMAS
General Federation of Trade Unions president and bakers’ union general secretary, SARAH WOOLLEY, guides us through the GFTU’s Summer School happening this week at Quorn Grange Hotel
The government’s latest asylum proposals abandon labour movement values and fuel division by aping Reform UK, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Can Andy Burnham’s programme deliver a productive economy – or merely a softer version of capitalism, asks VINCE MILLS
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
IT GOES without saying that this year’s STUC Congress comes at a pivotal moment for our movement, our class and our politics.
Our movement is mobile. It’s angry. It’s active and it’s loud. We’ve not seen the sustained, united levels of public outcry and energy from every corner of our affiliation for generations.
We have seen working people, led by the delegates attending STUC Congress, taking ownership of their lives, demanding the means of a better life.
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