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
Little bread and a depressing royal circus
The traditional prescription to stave off revolt looks increasingly unfit for purpose — whether a socialist revolution is near or not, Elizabeth II's funeral will surely be the last monarchist outpouring of significant size, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Prince Harry in Helmand, presumably deciding whether to add another Afghan to his claimed 25-person death toll
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
IN 1919 the ruling class was worried. The end of World War I had developed into something close to a revolutionary situation in Britain as working-class militancy, the Russian example, rising anti-imperialist agitation in the colonies, discontented troops and economic dislocation combined to threaten the rule of the capitalist class.
Sir Basil Thomson, head of the intelligence and security services, reported to the Cabinet on the problems stirring up revolutionary feelings.
They included profiteering, bad housing, the foolish ostentation of the rich, “extreme” trade union leaders, a growing pro-Labour Party press, unemployment and the circulation of Marxist literature.
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