All the evidence shows voters want Labour to shift to the left — but initial signs from Andy Burnham are worrying on that front, cautions DIANE ABBOTT
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It’s workers who create wealth – not billionaires
Our economy operates in the interests of those who own and manage the wealth which workers create. The current strike wave is seeking to redress the balance, says JON TRICKETT MP
ANDY McDONALD MP says Labour must show it is capable of delivering real improvements in people’s lives — bold action is required
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
ALLISON FEWTRELL on what Plaid Cymru's historic election victory means for the communities being failed by Wales’s housing crisis, and four things the new government can do right now
France Insoumise MP JEROME LEGAVRE speaks to Christophe Domec on building the Europe-wide peace movement that came together in the International Conference Against War last weekend
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
WORKERS’ pay has become a political issue once more. And the Tories and echo chambers in the media — both tabloid and should-know-better — are reverting to type.
They cannot see a strike, no matter how well-justified, without dipping their pens in vitriol and, in the case of Conservative ministers, seeking to rewrite the rule-book to help keep workers poor.
There is a story being told by the government that inflation is being stoked by pay rises led by unreasonable trade unions.
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