IAN LAVERY MP looks at the first months of Labour government and warns a new approach is needed if it is to reshape Britain

Former miner and Labour MP IAN LAVERY reflects on how to regain trust and offer hope as we celebrate the Durham Miners' Gala

Former party chair IAN LAVERY urges voters who may be tempted to lend their support to alternative left candidates to stick with Labour to smash the main enemy of our class as completely as possible

IAN LAVERY MP, who took part in – and was arrested on – the great strike, looks back on the significance of this heightened period of class struggle

We have a chance to offer not just a better standard of life, but a politics of meaning and hope if we win power – otherwise, all signs point to a hard-right politics of hatred taking hold, warns IAN LAVERY MP

Draconian new anti-working-class laws mean events like the gala need to be vigorously defended, writes IAN LAVERY MP

Having politicians who understand working people’s problems through lived experience is surely part of the solution to a loss of trust in politics. But current trends show Labour going in the opposite direction, warns IAN LAVERY MP

Truss and Kwarteng are determined to rerun failed free-market policies, but this time taken to new, devastating extremes that will see living standards in Britain slip behind eastern Europe, warns IAN LAVERY MP

IAN LAVERY has no pity to spare for the charlatan leaving Downing Street – and says leadership will be found not in the Tory ranks but on the streets of Durham this weekend

The result in Batley and Spen ought to galvanise the party leadership to set out its vision for the future – but there are few signs this will happen any time soon, says IAN LAVERY MP

Thatcher’s administration said it was an innocent bystander in a dispute between the NUM and the Coal Board — but the truth is that it was involved at the highest level in state repression against ordinary workers, writes IAN LAVERY

IAN LAVERY MP writes that research done by his organisation and polls nationally show that the only thing that reversed the decline of Labour's vote in constituencies like his were the bold progressive proposals of the Corbyn era

We must nurture working-class leaders and champion working-class communities inside the Labour Party and in general — and we will reach them only with a message that promises deep-seated change, argues IAN LAVERY MP

The left-behind masses that Labour must represent — both to be a progressive party and to win elections — will not be won over by anything other than a politics that promises radical change, writes IAN LAVERY

The coronavirus has seen the state mobilised in support of its people in a way we were told was impossible. Just as the working class refused to go back to poverty after WWII, we must do the same now, writes IAN LAVERY

IAN LAVERY on why justice for Orgreave is part of our struggle for justice today

We must ensure that we never allow an entitled party bureaucracy to overrule democratic decisions with a sneering disdain for those who made them, says IAN LAVERY

IAN LAVERY says Labour needs more socialism, not more liberalism, if it is to win back the confidence of people outside Westminster

Labour can win and build a country fit for the future if we come together in unity in the spirit of the Gala, says IAN LAVERY