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
A 700-day battle I never could have imagined
Australian trade unionist TROY CARTER explains how he ended up in the fight of his life against corporate tax dodgers Exxon Mobil and UGL/Cimic
Troy Carter of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union
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
AT 3am on June 22 2017 I never gave it a thought that I’d be standing up in front of people talking about my life and what would happen over the next 700 days.
I never thought that I’d be visiting members of Parliament to discuss loopholes that allowed an entire maintenance workforce to be made redundant one day and reoffered their job back the next.
I never imagined I’d be invited to Geneva to talk about issues related to tax or sit in a senate inquiry listening to a man (who I essentially worked for) admitting the sixth-biggest company in the world has not paid any corporation tax in Australia for four years, despite making $33.1 billion.
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