The basis for 20th-century social democracy in Britain is gone, argues ANDREW MURRAY – but there are measures a Burnham government could take that would break with neoliberalism
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The sacrifice of the tunneller remains unrecognised
Tony Simpson recalls the painful memory of his miner grandfather killed at the front and promptly forgotten
TONY BURKE pays tribute to a dedicated trade unionist and true internationalist who helped organise workers from Britain to Bangladesh
NASUWT leader MATT WRACK says schools are crying out for serious investment — and there are other immediate changes a new prime minister could and should enact
Keir Starmer’s resignation speech seemed to be coming from a different universe, or maybe it was just a fanfaronade of falsehoods, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Starmer will be judged on his record, but it would be wrong to view him in isolation from the crisis of the British political establishment, says the COMMUNIST PARTY in its official statement on the PM’s resignation
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
I am still waiting for the real history of WWI to be written. My grandfather Sapper James Morris was a member of the little known Tunnelling Companies of the Royal Engineers.
He was one of 1,516 tunnellers who died in WWI. These men, many of them miners, were described by their leader, Captain Jack Norton Griffiths as “heroes of obscurity ... whose names feature only marginally on the great lists.”
Few decorations were awarded to the tunnellers and the Imperial War Museum has not yet published their unit diaries.
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