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
Davos and democracy
ANDREW MURRAY casts a look, via the pages of the FT, at what the great and not-so-good have been concerned about at the elite Switzerland gathering
PRIVILEGE: The World Economic Forum took place in Davos from January 16-20
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
READERS have probably been anxiously awaiting news from Davos, where the global elite gather annually to discuss how to change the world while leaving everything precisely the same.
The Morning Star failed to receive an invitation again. That may be as well, since the Fighting Fund wouldn’t run to the bar bill, still less the hotel charges.
So we are forced to rely on the Financial Times to advise on the mood among the very rich, the very entitled and the very keen to be seen among the rich and entitled — that’s Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves in the last category.
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