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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The corona warriors of Kerala put Britain’s crooked contract snafflers to shame
The doorstep health workers of India’s communist state show that it’s human assistance that makes self-isolation possible, not the call centres and crib sheets favoured by the Tories, says SOLOMON HUGHES
People wait to get inoculated at a vaccination camp in Kochi, Kerala state
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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
PANORAMA’S recent documentary on how different nations tried containing Covid-19 told, in a few minutes, how the Indian state of Kerala responded.
These few minutes of television also made very clear why so many died in Britain.
I’d thoroughly recommend watching Panorama’s documentary, Covid: Who Got it Right, because it underlines how Britain’s response contained so many weird, unusual Thatcherite programmes, which break with very basic public health messages.
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