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THE government would do well to accept Labour’s amendments to the Bill authorising it to start negotiating our exit from the European Union, following its defeats in the Lords last week.
If the upper house was bidding to overrule the referendum it would be an insult to popular sovereignty and set the stage for the next step in Britain’s tortuous path to democracy, the abolition of the Lords.
But under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership Labour has accepted the result. Its amendments to the Bill passed by the Lords last week aim to ensure that a Tory government with a wafer-thin majority does not get to negotiate a deal that benefits only the City and big business at the cost of working people’s rights.
Labour’s long-promised Act has scraped through the Lords. While the law marks a step forward, its lack of collective rights leaves workers short-changed — and sets the stage for a renewed campaign for an Employment Rights Bill #2, argues TONY BURKE
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY