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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Don’t be fooled again
We need to learn the lessons of the 1970s – when the state sabotaged the last left-wing Labour government, writes CHRIS NINEHAM
Harold Wilson and his wife Mary
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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
FOR the first time in a generation, we have the chance of a radical Labour government.
To get an idea of what to expect and how the left should prepare, we need to know the history of the last such experiment.
The Wilson/Callaghan Labour government was elected in 1974 on the back of a wave of militant strikes.
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