Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20
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From Trickett’s rebellion to Reform’s rise, welcome to Labour’s post-victory blues
As Keir Starmer alienates his party’s core voters and plummets in the polls, ANDREW MURRAY argues the shifting political landscape exposes Labour’s vulnerability to both right-wing populism — and a resurgent left
Ben-Gvir’s threat to treat the flotilla as terrorists shows how seriously Israel takes the danger of growing solidarity activism from civil society to its standing on the international stage, writes RAMZY BAROUD
ANYA COOK reports from a Majority conference in Newcastle last weekend featuring Jamie Driscoll and Zarah Sultana
A new report from the Citizens Advice Bureau destroys the government narrative about disabled people ‘choosing’ not to work, showing the £3,000 annual cuts will create a two-tiered system based on claim dates rather than needs, writes DYLAN MURPHY
MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES argue that it is high time for the UN to get its teeth into resolving the insufferable plight of the Palestinian nation
Who you ask and how you ask matter, as does why you are asking — the history of opinion polls shows they are as much about creating opinions as they are about recording them, writes socialist historian KEITH FLETT
LABOUR’S conference, opening in Liverpool at the weekend, ought to be a gathering of victors basking in their huge parliamentary majority.
Yet I anticipate angst. Keir Starmer barely rode a ripple, never mind a wave, into office.
Since entering Downing Street, all suited and booted courtesy of the largesse of Lord Alli, the Prime Minister has set about diminishing his standing still further, mainly by picking confrontations with the poorest.
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