Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Conference shows Labour's left is unbowed
Despite the almost comically regressive agenda of the party leader, the last four days have seen major blows struck for the Labour left resistance against apartheid Israel and for a £15 minimum wage and it remains the major political vehicle for the working class, argues NICK WRIGHT
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
IT WAS a bold move by Keir Starmer to offer Labour Party members a pre-conference distillation of his most profound thoughts. And in setting them out at such length he has made it clear that any Labour accession to government under his leadership will not be driven by innovation or clear thinking but rather by a complete submission to capitalist financial orthodoxy.
The £15 minimum wage policy, to which former shadow employment minister Andy McDonald is committed, was casually abandoned in a routine parade of Treasury dogma designed to underline the truth that Labour is back under corporate control.
Cabinet collective responsibility would have put him in the impossible position of arguing against his own policy in a key meeting with union leaders and this, to his great credit, he would not do.
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