DIANE ABBOTT looks at the perilous political cul-de-sac Labour finds itself in
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How the ministry of labour will defeat neoliberalism
Today workplaces are hostile environments – but Labour’s new ministry by and for workers will change all that, LAURA PIDCOCK told the Arise festival of left ideas. We run her speech here
Shadow labour minister Laura Pidcock
DAVE WARD says the Employment Rights Act can be a platform to build back union power — but only if we can agree a common agenda
A new strategy from the Together Alliance links the fight against racism to the wider struggle over austerity and inequality, says BILL GREENSHIELDS
Linking the General Strike 1926 to the struggles of workers today. General Strike 100 national co-ordinator HENRY FOWLER reflects on his recent visit to the Bristol Radical History Festival
LYNNE WALSH reports from the Bristol Radical History Festival, where the defiant tradition of resistance shaped by ordinary people was centre stage
A new wave of austerity is being prepared, and it’s workers who will be expected to pay for it, warns MICHAEL BURKE
THE work of the Institute of Employment Rights (IER) over the last three decades has been essential and remains so today.
It has been advising me in my role as shadow minister for labour, but much more than that, it’s been instrumental in providing the building blocks for a new department in a future Labour government, a ministry of labour, which I believe will be transformative for workers and workplaces.
It’s such an important and exciting part of Labour’s programme and I’m delighted to be heading it up.
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