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
Words of wisdom from the bourgeoisie
Capitalism is in crisis – as even the Telegraph now warns, writes ANDREW MURRAY
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
SOMETIMES the class enemy see further than we do. Or, to put it another way, Daily Telegraph writers point out things that the left is silent about, but would do well to attend to.
It was thus when the paper’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard took the left, or most of it, to task for opposing Brexit, when the European Union would surely obstruct the implementation of any socialist programme in Britain.
So too this week when columnist Tim Stanley observed that the forces which derailed the implementation of Liz Truss’s turbo-charged neoliberalism would “if we got a Labour leader who was a genuine socialist … destroy a left-wing agenda, too.”
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