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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Why the left needs freedom of speech
It’s time for the Labour and trade union movement to reclaim the ground that is rightfully ours, and defend freedom of speech as a core left-wing commitment, write JANE SHALLICE and SHEREEN BENJAMIN
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
RECENT weeks have seen the Tories seizing yet more ground in what were previously Labour strongholds.
But it’s not only votes and constituencies that have been lost.
A wave of knee-jerk suspensions of socialists from the Labour Party and the party’s widespread silencing of women who want to discuss sex-based rights, have enabled the Conservatives to present themselves as the defenders of freedom of speech in the face of a censorious left.
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