Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Rail profits make a mockery out of working people
The government claims that there is no money in the industry, yet international investors are falling over themselves to get in on the act, says RMT leader MICK LYNCH
ROCK SOLID: Mick Lynch gives a speech to workers at a rally at King's Cross station, London
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
IT SEEMS an age ago that the Tories claimed to be the voice of the working class.
Since the fall of the so-called “red wall” when workers lent them their vote to get Brexit done as many saw it, this rotten Tory government has relentlessly attacked workers by slashing services and driving down wages at the height of a cost-of-living crisis.
In the transport sector the government’s so-called levelling-up agenda has involved bulldozing through a wave of cuts not seen for a generation.
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But unions warn renationalisation must not be fudged
Our groundbreaking report reveals how private rail companies are bleeding millions from public coffers through exploitative leasing practices — but we have the solutions, writes Aslef Scottish organiser KEVIN LINDSAY
Aslef general secretary MICK WHELAN speaks to Ben Chacko about rail renationalisation, the Employment Rights Bill and why we shouldn’t write off this Labour government
