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‘Labour’s first mission is to grow the economy and the industrial strategy will be at its heart’
Ahead of TUC Congress, Berny Torre talks to general secretary PAUL NOWAK about the importance of making sure the first Labour government in 15 years delivers on the New Deal For Workers; reform of the broken universal credit system; and the tragedy of migrants drowning in the Channel
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The unnecessarily violent police intervention at a Quaker place of worship is a PR disaster and will only serve to deepen the chasm between them and the public. SYMON HILL reports
ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads
Due to the actions of this government, the challenges facing those with disabilities, such as spinal cord injuries, are nigh on insurmountable, argus RUTH HUNT
General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
UNIONS want Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Budget to put “flesh on the bones” for a strong industrial strategy and Labour to adopt “flexible” fiscal rules that do not hold back growth, the TUC’s general secretary says.
In a wide-ranging interview ahead of the start of the union federation’s annual Congress in Brighton, Paul Nowak explained why he is confident the government will deliver the New Deal for Working People in full.
The union leader called for wider welfare reforms, including targeted support, so pensioners due to lose winter fuel payments aren’t afraid to put on the heating this winter.
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