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JOHN McDONNELL told the May Day masses yesterday that the general election is the biggest chance of a lifetime for the left.
Addressing a packed Trafalgar Square on International Workers’ Day, the shadow chancellor launched a searing attack on the Tory government’s record of cuts, low pay and privatisation.
He said: “This is a Tory government that has presided over a country in which our nurses have to rely on foodbanks. Yes that’s right, nurses — the heroes of our NHS — abandoned by this government.
The election offers a critical chance to shape the future of pay, care and community provision in Wales, says Unison’s JESS TURNER
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says