BEN CHACKO reports on fears at TUC Congress that the provisions in the legislation are liable to be watered down even further
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From freebie frocks to foreign policy, conference only exposed the cracks in Starmer’s project
The lack of serious debate on electoral weakness and key policy issues only made the disconnect between the leadership’s austerity agenda and the concerns of the party’s rank-and-file more blatant, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, September 24, 2024
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits
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
Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI
We must organise broad-based counterprotests and celebratory local community events to rebuild class consciousness and challenge the far-right’s divisive lies, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, ahead of this Saturday’s big demo in London
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
LABOUR conference? The first thing to understand is that it is not, in essence, a very serious event.
A serious Labour Party conference this year would have included a sober review of the party’s election result, which yielded a large but highly brittle majority on a puny vote share.
The reasons for polling around 10 per cent less of the electorate than anticipated would be examined, and ideas for how to do better next time explored.
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