All the evidence shows voters want Labour to shift to the left — but initial signs from Andy Burnham are worrying on that front, cautions DIANE ABBOTT
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Years of neoliberal austerity have left Britain crying out for an alternative
Outsourcing and market fundamentalism have failed the country and the public, writes LEN McCLUSKEY
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey
ANDY McDONALD MP says Labour must show it is capable of delivering real improvements in people’s lives — bold action is required
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
ALLISON FEWTRELL on what Plaid Cymru's historic election victory means for the communities being failed by Wales’s housing crisis, and four things the new government can do right now
France Insoumise MP JEROME LEGAVRE speaks to Christophe Domec on building the Europe-wide peace movement that came together in the International Conference Against War last weekend
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
I ARRIVED here in Manchester angry. Angry at the failure of a neoliberal dogma that has resulted in the spectacular collapse of four high-profile outsourced and privatised projects, for which no-one is being held accountable or punished.
Carillion — two much-needed new hospitals in Liverpool and Birmingham lie mothballed, while the failed construction and outsourcing giant’s apprenticeship programme appears to have been a sham scheme.
Birmingham Prison — the government forced to take over from G4S after the chief inspector of prisons said it had fallen into a “state of crisis.”
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