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LABOUR’S Ian Lavery mounted a barnstorming defence of the party’s trade union links yesterday, declaring: “United we stand, divided we fall.”
The Wansbeck MP made a sweeping plea for a radical reforming manifesto at Unite the union’s annual conference in Liverpool.
“We need excitement and an attractive manifesto to reach out to all those who feel disenfranchised,” he demanded.
IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
Young Communist League general secretary GEORGINA ANDREWS says the far right are filling a vacuum created by Labour’s abandonment of working-class interests — we have to give our class a better offer
Apart from a bright spark of hope in the victory of the Gaza motion, this year’s conference lacked vision and purpose — we need to urgently reconnect Labour with its roots rather than weakly aping the flag-waving right, argues KIM JOHNSON MP