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Leader of Reform UK Nigel Farage launches his General Election campaign in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, June 4, 2024
THE labour movement must build solidarity at a “time of monsters” at home and abroad, the bakers’ union’s Ian Hodson warned today.
The BFAWU president blasted racist rhetoric from hard-right figurehead Nigel Farage, Israel’s killing of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and urged resistance against inequality and injustice.
Mr Hodson spoke on the opening day of the union’s annual conference in Staffordshire, during which delegates unanimously endorsed a motion bearing the words of late socialist MP Tony Benn: “If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.”
While Spode quit politics after inheriting an earldom, Farage combines MP duties with selling columns, gin, and even video messages — proving reality produces more shameless characters than PG Wodehouse imagined, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
The Gala’s core message of working-class solidarity offers renewed hope and provides the antidote to the anti-worker policies of Reform UK, argues IAN LAVERY MP
ROS SITWELL reports from the Morning Star conference on ‘Race, Sex and Class Liberation’ last weekend