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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Resisting the Tory offensive and popularising socialist solutions
Just because the Tories are on the back foot we cannot simply wait for a Labour government — it is time to unite our various campaigns into one socialist struggle, writes MATT WILLGRESS, national organiser for Arise Festival
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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 the crisis facing British capitalism deepens, the first thing we must do as the left is understand the scale of what we are up against and the depth of the economic, social and political crises.
Boris Johnson had already used the cover of the Covid crisis to launch a massive offensive on all fronts, which is now going into overdrive under Liz Truss.
Every day sees more attacks — whether that be on our trade unions, the scapegoating of refugees or attacks on benefit claimants.
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