In his May Day message for the Morning Star, RICHARD BURGON says the call for peace, equality and socialism has never been more relevant
Richard Burgon


RICHARD BURGON MP argues that a broad, united mass movement can stop the cuts and ensure it’s the wealthiest that pay their fair share

RICHARD BURGON MP says the government should use the Employment Rights Bill to reverse a shameful Tory decision on discrimination

RICHARD BURGON MP, who voted against the cut to winter fuel allowance, warns against a return to austerity, introducing his ideas that could raise billions to properly fund public services and boost wages instead

RICHARD BURGON MP lays out a plan for taxes on the wealthy as an alternative to yet more Tory austerity

RICHARD BURGON MP writes that rebuilding Britain will require not simply a Labour government, but a conscious ditching of the Tory ideology and policies that have caused so much damage

RICHARD BURGON MP says we need to prevent the Tories from using this crisis to push another era of damaging austerity

RICHARD BURGON argues that the Tories are becoming more authoritarian as opposition to their reactionary policies grows

RICHARD BURGON MP argues the labour movement must put wealth taxes at the heart of its alternative to Tory cuts

Ahead of the Latin America Conference 2023 in January, RICHARD BURGON MP looks at the 'second pink tide,' a new wave of social progress across the continent — and why solidarity remains as important as ever

We might be leading in the polls, but our devastated country cannot wait up to two years for an election — Labour must be forcing concessions and retreats from Truss’s obscene neoliberal cabal here and now, writes RICHARD BURGON MP

RICHARD BURGON MP argues that whoever is Tory leader, only strikes and mass protest will force the changes we need.

The Tories want the vast majority of people to pay for this crisis - but co-ordinated action can stop them, argues RICHARD BURGON MP

We need to step up the fight for progressive solutions to the health and cost-of-living crisis, argues RICHARD BURGON MP

RICHARD BURGON MP says Labour needs to spell out a bold alternative with a National Care Service funded by taxes on the super-rich

RICHARD BURGON MP warns that the Tories new Health and Care Bill is really about ensuring an even greater role for private companies in our NHS

RICHARD BURGON MP argues that the government will only deliver the change we need if we build the movements that demand it

We need to demand real action from the British government as part of global pressure to force Israel to end its war on the Palestinian people, says RICHARD BURGON MP

RICHARD BURGON MP argues that fire and rehire is the new Tory blueprint for the whole economy

Disabled people have been hit especially hard by this pandemic, yet the government is refusing to increase benefits, writes RICHARD BURGON MP

RICHARD BURGON MP says a massive programme of state investment is the best way of getting the economy growing and tackling the numerous crises our communities face

RICHARD BURGON argues that private control of the vaccines means hundreds of thousands of lives could be lost unnecessarily

The Thatcherites in the Cabinet present a real threat to workers’ rights, which our whole labour movement must unite to fight, argues RICHARD BURGON MP

The government needs to ensure workers can afford to stay at home, argues RICHARD BURGON MP