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On Friday, Angela Eagle claimed that “the way that we make policy in the Labour Party is changing“. But for delegates to Labour’s national policy forum in Birmingham this weekend, the jury is out on ...
Campaigning group Next Generation Labour (NGL) has established itself as a leading voice within the Labour party against George Osborne’s austerity package, to which the party leadership has made ...
It is astounding that some political leaders can be so wilfully blind. Osborne, faced with a collapsing economy and banks that are unwilling to lend because they have such lack of confidence in the ...
Hurrah for Jeremy Corbyn, now safely past the 35 nominations hurdle. And not a moment too soon. The mountain to climb that now confronts Labour demands a refreshing new voice that acknowledges the ...
Up to 4,000 workers at Amazon’s despatch centre at Piacenza in northern Italy will be striking for better pay and conditions on Black Friday. In addition, the workers organised by the unions Tertiary ...
The revelation that the US National Security Agency and FBI were enabled in a major international snooping operation to access the systems of 9 of the world’s biggest internet companies and then to ...
Addressing union delegates in Bridlington today, the Bolton North MP, David Crausby,delivered the annual report of the bakers’ union parliamentary group which acts for the union’s interests in ...
I write this as the immensely proud Member of Parliament for Blaydon. I write it in the aftermath of what has been described as a political earthquake and I write it based on four decades of activity ...
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Behind the pageantry of the jubilee lies the seamier side of working to support the monarchy. We’ve all now read about the disgraceful exploitation of unpaid young people on a compulsory work ...
The best that’s Left in Labour. Good writing. Sharp criticism. Open debate. Campaigning. Red or green, aligned or not, Left Futures seeks to refresh and activate your politics ...
Zac Goldsmith MP deserves credit for sponsoring a bill to introduce a mechanism for the recall of MPs and to ensure that it was effective. He won a vote in the Commons in support of the principle of ...