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“LABOUR has reinvented itself by moving decisively to the left,” TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said in the annual Jimmy Reid memorial lecture in Glasgow last night.
Ms O’Grady praised the “Scandinavian model” of social democracy for demonstrating that “with fair taxation you can deliver world-class childcare and social care,” designing “whole cities … around the needs of children” and accepting that “the great majority of working people should be protected by collective bargaining.”
But the TUC leader pointed out that “the world has changed” and social democracy was increasingly failing.
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
While Reform poses as a workers’ party, a credible left alternative rooted in working-class communities would expose their sham — and Corbyn’s stature will be crucial to its appeal, argues CHELLEY RYAN