Zarah Sultana’s recent brave criticisms of Labour from 2015 to 2020, including Brexit triangulation, IHRA capitulation and insufficient fighting spirit, have ruffled feathers but started an essential discussion, writes ANDREW MURRAY
‘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
Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC speaking at the TUC congress at the ACC Liverpool, September 11, 2023
US baseless accusations of drug trafficking and the outrageous putting of a bounty on a president of a sovereign country do not bode well, reports PABLO MERIGUET
Green Party MPs stand alone in Parliament in defending Palestine Action against Labour’s proscription of the group as a terrorist organisation — an outrageous move that the Tories supported and the cowardly Lib Dems abstained on, writes ELLIOT TONG
Mass mobilisations are forcing governments to seriously consider imposing sanctions and severing ties — even in places like Australia and the Netherlands — despite continued arms shipments to Israel’s war machine, writes RAMZY BAROUD
What we are learning today is that fascism can come to power even when the working class of almost every capitalist nation is very far from achieving revolution, argues DAVID LETHBRIDGE
TONY BURKE explains how an internationally significant breakthrough for workers’ organisation and recognition against two notoriously anti-union global mega corporations has been finally achieved in Canada
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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