Andy Burnham’s leadership will be judged on whether he charts a genuinely different course, argues BECK ROBERTSON
It’s workers who create wealth – not billionaires
Our economy operates in the interests of those who own and manage the wealth which workers create. The current strike wave is seeking to redress the balance, says JON TRICKETT MP
While Italy’s communist tradition remains fragmented and politically marginal, France’s party is attempting to re-establish itself as an independent force rooted in working-class organisation, says NICK WRIGHT
Critics of UBI underestimate both its political significance and its economic potential, writes BERT SCHOUWENBURG
As Ontario burns, campaigners are demanding action – not more pipelines, says DAVE McKEE
Innovation in biotechnology is changing how we conceive of meat, say ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT of SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
WORKERS’ pay has become a political issue once more. And the Tories and echo chambers in the media — both tabloid and should-know-better — are reverting to type.
They cannot see a strike, no matter how well-justified, without dipping their pens in vitriol and, in the case of Conservative ministers, seeking to rewrite the rule-book to help keep workers poor.
There is a story being told by the government that inflation is being stoked by pay rises led by unreasonable trade unions.
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