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
How best to break the silence over Corbyn’s ejection?
ANDREW MURRAY notes the muted response to the symbolic destruction of the left through the defenestration of its iconic recent leader — but advises a fight within the Labour Party itself is now the best way forward
Former Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn joins members of the National Education Union (NEU) on a march through Westminster where they are gathering for rally against the Government's controversial plans for a new law on minimum service levels during strikes
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
THE decision by Keir Starmer to block Jeremy Corbyn from standing as a Labour candidate in the next general election poses a significant challenge to Labour’s left — and it is far from clear that the left is rising to meet it.
Starmer’s announcement — for which his authority is unclear — had been long anticipated. That should not, however, diminish the sense of injustice. Removing Corbyn from the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) was never anything more than an act of political vindictiveness from a man who once described his predecessor as Labour leader as “a friend.”
The ostensible reason for the decision was Corbyn’s response to the publication of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report into anti-semitism in Labour in October 2020.
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