Robinson successfully defended his school from closure, fought for the unification of the teaching unions, mentored future trade union leaders and transformed teaching at the Marx Memorial Library, writes JOHN FOSTER
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As chair of the Labour Party IAN LAVERY has high hopes for the conference and its outcomes
Jeremy Corbyn (centre) with shadow cabinet members (left to right) Diane Abbott, Ian Lavery, Kate Osamor, Tom Watson and Sarah Champion at the launch of the Labour Party election manifesto in Bradford last year
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From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN
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The summer of 1950 saw Labour abandon further nationalisation while escalating Korean War spending from £2.3m to £4.7m, as the government meekly accepted capitalism’s licence and became Washington’s yes-man, writes JOHN ELLISON
The Labour Party as we know it was formed 118 years ago. It was not created out of the desire to satisfy some whim or as an intellectual debating society, where men and women of standing could discuss their concerns about the deserving or undeserving poor.
It was born out of necessity. The injustices and inequality between the working classes, who powered Britain’s industrial revolution, and the upper classes, who profited from it, had never been more obvious and thankfully there were people for whom these injustices could not be ignored.
The importance of the trade union movement in the story of Labour’s conception can often be forgotten.
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