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Veteran Labour MP Dennis Skinner poured scorn yesterday on Chancellor George Osborne’s bogus claim that Tory economic policies are working.
“Do not believe this man. He wouldn’t recognise the truth if it was sprayed on his eyeballs,” Mr Skinner declared angrily.
The TUC Congress in Bournemouth also scathingly rejected the economic policies of the coalition government, declaring that they had failed even by their own measures.
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
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
Deep disillusionment with the Westminster cross-party consensus means rupture with the status quo is on the cards – bringing not only opportunities but also dangers, says NICK WRIGHT
RICHARD BURGON MP points to the recent relative success of widespread opposition to the Labour leadership’s regressive policies as the blueprint for exacting the changes required to build a fairer society