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Labour must make a firm commitment to public-sector pay
We need to be clear that any Labour government will bring public-sector pay back to pre-austerity levels and in line with inflation, writes BETH WINTER MP
Members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) on the picket line outside HMRC in East Kilbride during a strike in the long-running civil service dispute over pay, jobs and conditions, May 10, 2023
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
AS Labour’s conference takes place in Liverpool, it comes on the back of an increasingly divided and extreme Conservative conference, and a stunning by-election win taking a seat from the SNP in Rutherglen and Hamilton.
With that win confirming Labour’s polling lead, it is increasingly likely that Labour will be in a strong position to win a majority government at the next election.
The opportunity that a majority government will bring is the chance to heal the austerity attacks on our public services and assaults on people’s pay over the last 13 years.
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