Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
The ascent and fall of Corbynism
Recognising the true nature of the Parliamentary Labour Party and its 100-year commitment to imperialism is crucial to understanding why it proved so resistant to change from within during the years of Corbyn’s leadership, argues ANDREW MURRAY
UNDIMINISHED APPEAL: Jeremy Corbyn with St Mungo's workers as they begin a month long strike over pay, May 30 2023
CEREN SAGIR reports from the CND fringe meeting during the Labour conference, where speakers slammed a system where £99 billion nuclear arsenal replacement costs are ring-fenced while the two-child benefit cap remains
CND’s Stop the Nuclear Nightmare conference in Glasgow will be an important step towards destroying the false arguments that weapons and war spending will lead to job creation and prosperity, rather than bringing Armageddon closer, writes SIMON BARROW
KIM JOHNSON MP places the campaign in the context of the history of the working-class battles of the 1980s, and explains why, just like Orgreave and the Shrewsbury Pickets before it, justice today is so important for the struggles of tomorrow
REBECCA LONG BAILEY MP writes that it is time not just to adopt policies that will revitalise the lives of workers, but speak honestly and openly about whose side we are on and who the Labour Party is for: the millions, not the millionaires
All the areas that cause working people to feel insecure have to be addressed, through a return to unashamedly pro-worker politics, if the horror of a Farage government is to be avoided, writes IAN LAVERY MP
WITHIN Jeremy Corbyn’s 40 years as MP for Islington North, five stand out — those stretching from his election as Labour Party leader in September 2015 through to his suspension from the party whip by his successor in October 2020.
Those were the years in which he lent his name to an “ism” and generated a political movement which had, for a time, extraordinary vitality.
It is scarcely a secret that Jeremy Corbyn, who the present writer has known and campaigned alongside for many years and who worked with him during his leadership, never expected to be Labour leader nor coveted the post.
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