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

TUC Congress in Brighton this year debated four separate motions on the climate crisis. All of the motions call for a just transition to make sure that workers in the energy, transport and manufacturing industries are not simply thrown on the dole.
Appeals to the new Labour government were aplenty, but what was absent from every motion was the need for industrial militancy to ensure that a just transition leading to a decarbonised economy does not result in working-class communities being decimated by long-term unemployment.
Some in our movement describe this as pie in the sky, but workers have taken the lead in defending the environment in the past, and it is essential that they do so again.

Women are a vital part of the labour movement and have much to contribute, but there’s far more to be done to make sure that our sisters’ voices are truly heard, says PHILIPA HARVEY

Corbyn and Sultana’s ‘Your Party’ represents the first attempt at mass socialist organisation since the CPGB’s formation in 1921, argues DYLAN MURPHY

