SOLOMON HUGHES reveals how six MPs enjoyed £400-£600 hospitality at Ditchley Park for Google’s ‘AI parliamentary scheme’ — supposedly to develop ‘effective scrutiny’ of artificial intelligence, but actually funded by the increasingly unsavoury tech giant itself
No more tinkering round the edges
If we stand together united, the radical change we need can – and will – be won, writes JEREMY CORBYN MP
Jeremy Corbyn (left), Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South and Mick Lynch, General Secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) (right) on the picket line outside London Euston train station
Caroline Darian, daughter of Gisele Pelicot, took part in a conversation with Afua Hirsch at London’s Royal Geographical Society. LYNNE WALSH reports
As the regime in Iran continues to face international pressure to reduce its nuclear programme, workers continue to struggle for wages they can live on despite harsh repression of trade unionists, reports JAMSHID AHMADI
JEAN SILVAN EVANS pays tribute to the social campaigner who sang the Welsh national anthem to Khrushchev in Moscow and became Rhondda’s communist mayor in 1979
As summer nears, TOM HARDY explains how unions are organising heat strikes and cool stations while calling for legal maximum workplace temperatures — because employers currently have no duty to protect workers from dangerous heat
European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde sees Trump’s many disruptions as an opportunity to challenge the dollar’s ‘exorbitant privilege’ — but greater Euro assertiveness will also mean greater warmongering and militarism, warns NICK WRIGHT
KEITH BARLOW examines the 1975 referendum that saw Britain vote to stay in the EEC, revealing how Tony Benn understood that EU free-market principles and capital movement rules would tie the hands of any government putting people’s interests before corporate profits
LAST week’s bankers’ Budget is a gift for the few and a slap in the face for the many.
Truss, Kwarteng and co have doubled down on tax cuts for the rich, handouts for their mates in the city, dirty fossil fuels and attacks on workers.
We need a massive change, not more of the same. And there is a growing resistance to the deadly status quo.
That outrage has inspired the creation of dozens of community organisations, the Enough Is Enough campaign, the Just Stop Oil Coalition occupation of Westminster, the strike summer and now the autumn of action.
It is this unity and togetherness, fuelled by the hope that another world truly is possible, and that things cannot go on as they are, that gives me hope for the future.
We need a bold and radical alternative to the misery we face, with public ownership of our energy companies, water, mail and rail at the forefront of an agenda of hope.
This will tackle the cost-of-living crisis head on, reduce household bills and bring economic justice for the millions of people struggling to put food on the table while bankers are rewarded with obscene bonuses.
Young people are saddled with debt and uncertainty, and the Tory mismanagement of our economy has left them with less opportunity to thrive and achieve.
Jobs in smaller towns are becoming few and far between while cities like London are far too expensive.
This squeeze effectively pushes thousands of degree-educated people out of the labour market before they can even join it.
The time has long passed for us to tinker around the edges of a broken system.
The policies we put forward in the 2017 and 2019 general election manifestos, including a Green New Deal, public ownership and an expansion of our NHS with a new national care service, were popular.
There is no doubt they would have improved the lives of so many facing uncertainty and hardship.
The fact of the matter is that people here in Britain and around the world are crying out for big change — a peaceful world free from war and without the threat of nuclear annihilation.
A sustainable world that will give future generations the belief that, if we stand together united, things can, and will, change.
That’s how every fight our movement has been part of has been won, and that is how we will win again.
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