The Starmer project is going up in smoke – but if the left cannot swiftly build a viable alternative, the country faces the grim reality of a hard-right takeover, says ANDREW MURRAY
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Labour is taught a class lesson
In the aftermath of Labour’s defeat BILL GREENSHIELDS explains why it happened, cautions against rushed judgements and shows the way forward
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POA general secretary STEVE GILLAN argues that while Labour’s 2025 Act was a step forward, a second wave of legislation is vital to restore the fundamental right to strike and end the exploitation of prison officers
Mehmet Turkmen, president of Birtek-Sen, has been cleared of criminal charges after speaking out against the high rate of workplace injuries and deaths in Gaziantep’s textile and carpet industry. OZLEM TEMENA reports
Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
Over 30 years since apartheid was abolished, nasty anti-migrant rhetoric sweeps the corporate media. The Commnunist Party is ready to fight back, says ROGER McKENZIE
FRED BAYER says the cuts to the congress cycle could be disastrous for the Scottish trade union movement
ON the day following the general election dominated by the Brexit issue, there are those on the left who will be seen as again saying to working class people: “You’re too stupid to know what you’re doing” — just as we were told following the EU referendum. It seems almost designed to alienate anti-EU working class people from left organisations
Look at it like this.
In the European Union elections in May the Brexit Party won the most votes in Britain and became the largest single national party in the European Parliament. Does this show that working-class people “supported” the Brexit Party? If they supported it then, why did they dump it yesterday in the general election, in favour of the Tories?
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