The National Emergency Briefing outlines the need for urgent action to address environmental crisis, says PAUL DONOVAN, warning that there’s no time to indulge the arguments of the fossil-fuel-funded climate-change deniers
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We want our Derby MP back in the Labour Party
The attack on Chris Williamson is an attack on all the ordinary people of Derby for whom he is a tireless advocate, says Moz Greenshields on behalf of DERBY AREA TRADES UNION COUNCIL
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Campaigners say criticism of Labour MP Stephen Morgan’s position on Gaza has been met with police intervention and cancelled opportunities for debate. HESTER WOLFE reports
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights warns of escalation danger in Iran war
Claudia Webbe pays tribute tribute to KANYA KING CBE, February 12 1964 to June 3 2026
The Milburn review presents itself as a plan to help young people into work, but Dr DYLAN MURPHY argues it is laying the groundwork for a harsher benefits regime
Campaigners from across the continent will gather in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services, write MAGGIE SIMPSON and BOB ORAM of No Cold War Britain
IT’S just over a week since Chris Williamson spoke to hundreds of Derby people at our City’s Silk Mill Festival about the need to fight for fairness and justice, against racism and bigotry of all types and for the need to support each other in these hard times.
Now, as a result of these views, he finds himself again the victim of unfairness and injustice.
After allegations of anti-semitism led to his suspension from the Labour Party, he was investigated and reinstated, to the fury of those who want to get rid of him — and others in the Labour Party that they hate for trying to return the party to its socialist roots.
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