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
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
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
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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