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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It’s the building of workers’ power that’s key to solving the climate crisis
If there is hope it will manifest outside the steel fences of the official conference zone, among workers and campaigners, says STUC leader ROZ FOYER
Police officers walk past the venue that will host Cop26 in Glasgow, Scotland
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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
AS SOME world leaders descend on Glasgow over the next few days (and others stay away), our city will host a summit that has no treaty to agree but which will nevertheless be closely scrutinised to see whether the world, particularly those who run its dominant economies, are showing any signs of facing up to the crisis that is engulfing the planet.
It is a crisis that will be felt most quickly and most acutely in the global South and by the world’s poor.
These are the people who do not account for most of the world’s greenhouse emissions but will be on the sharp end of its effects, whether directly through extreme weather events or indirectly if lives are affected through the economic impacts of an unjust transition.
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