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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The leader the party forgot
George Lansbury’s Christian socialism drove him to fight war and social inequality, writes BOB HOLMAN
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
HE WAS a Christian socialist who rebuilt the Labour Party after its worst ever electoral defeat, but appears to have been forgotten by the current party leadership.
No, not Tony Blair — but George Lansbury.
Born into poverty in Suffolk in 1859, he grew up in the East End of London where he became attracted to socialism and then to Christianity by the Vicar of Whitechapel who reached out to working-class people.
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