The basis for 20th-century social democracy in Britain is gone, argues ANDREW MURRAY – but there are measures a Burnham government could take that would break with neoliberalism
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We need strategic intervention to defend manufacturing and jobs
Government must act with an urgency not yet seen and detail a clear industrial strategy to get our nations back to work, writes STEVE TURNER of Unite the Union
TONY BURKE pays tribute to a dedicated trade unionist and true internationalist who helped organise workers from Britain to Bangladesh
NASUWT leader MATT WRACK says schools are crying out for serious investment — and there are other immediate changes a new prime minister could and should enact
Keir Starmer’s resignation speech seemed to be coming from a different universe, or maybe it was just a fanfaronade of falsehoods, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Starmer will be judged on his record, but it would be wrong to view him in isolation from the crisis of the British political establishment, says the COMMUNIST PARTY in its official statement on the PM’s resignation
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
CHANGE is coming. Covid-19 has seen to that. It’s coming to every aspect of our economy and working lives and left unchecked, in the hands of hard right, free-market ideologues it will bring unemployment, poverty, ill-health and misery at levels not seen since the 1920s.
Our immediate challenge, our duty as trade unionists, is to build a confident, powerful movement capable of shaping that change and ensuring working people and our communities are at its heart, not its victims for a generation or more to come.
If we’re to build back better, manufacturing must be central to our nations’ recovery and rebuild strategies, providing jobs and apprenticeships, making the products we need to green our economy and exporting the high-value goods we need to raise the capital to support our public services.
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