Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
The pillars of the post-World War II world are crumbling
A multipolar world is emerging where a number of countries of the global South are now using their growing economic power and political importance to demand reform of the post-WWII order, argues DAVID CAVENDISH
OLD WORLD ORDER: A police helicopter flies near the moon during an annual Nato heads of government summit
CEREN SAGIR reports from the CND fringe meeting during the Labour conference, where speakers slammed a system where £99 billion nuclear arsenal replacement costs are ring-fenced while the two-child benefit cap remains
CND’s Stop the Nuclear Nightmare conference in Glasgow will be an important step towards destroying the false arguments that weapons and war spending will lead to job creation and prosperity, rather than bringing Armageddon closer, writes SIMON BARROW
KIM JOHNSON MP places the campaign in the context of the history of the working-class battles of the 1980s, and explains why, just like Orgreave and the Shrewsbury Pickets before it, justice today is so important for the struggles of tomorrow
REBECCA LONG BAILEY MP writes that it is time not just to adopt policies that will revitalise the lives of workers, but speak honestly and openly about whose side we are on and who the Labour Party is for: the millions, not the millionaires
All the areas that cause working people to feel insecure have to be addressed, through a return to unashamedly pro-worker politics, if the horror of a Farage government is to be avoided, writes IAN LAVERY MP
WORLD WAR II ended 80 years ago, in 1945. The war lasted six years, from 1939 to 1945, though some would argue that it really began in 1937 with the Japanese invasion of China. It is indisputable, however, that the war was the deadliest in history.
Tens of millions of people died (estimates as to the number of military and civilian fatalities vary widely), of whom six million were Jews killed in the Holocaust. There was destruction of vast territories in Europe and Asia, with the Soviet Union suffering the greatest losses: around 27 million people died and over 7,000 villages and cities destroyed. And in Japan over 200,000 people — mostly civilians — died in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
By contrast, other than the attack on Pearl Harbour (a military base), the United States suffered virtually no physical damage, fewer than 500,000 military deaths and only several thousand civilian casualties, mainly of US citizens living abroad.
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