JON TRICKETT MP says the tools already exist to stop price-gouging by the energy fat cats

The last 14 years have completely disproven the economic myths the Tories used to set us on the path of cuts and devastation – we need massive direct investment to rebuild the post-industrial communities, writes JON TRICKETT

JON TRICKETT calls for a renewed commitment to driving up safety standards in all workplaces

Most people understand and are outraged by the fact inequality is getting worse — we need to explain how and why the Tories are driving it, writes JON TRICKETT MP

Thatcher’s ‘solution’ to the decline of the post-war settlement was to destroy much of our manufacturing base and throw millions out of work and into poverty, explains JON TRICKETT MP

Our private medical data is being outsourced to a company linked to the US deep state and run by an NHS-hating hard-right Trump-supporting billionaire, warns JON TRICKETT MP

How can we justify working people continuing to get less and less while the already rich get more and more, asks JON TRICKETT MP

Britain is crying out for change and investment in our crumbling infrastructure – will Labour have the courage to commit to the investment so desperately needed, asks JON TRICKETT MP

JON TRICKETT MP on how the miners' dispute and brutal state response that killed two men on September 7 1893 shows a state using force to protect profits over workers' livelihoods

JON TRICKETT MP appeals to MPs, Labour in the regions and affiliated unions to confront Labour's current dangerous trajectory

My constituents cannot simply ‘work their way out of’ bad health, poor educational attainment, low life expectancy and deepening child poverty — the government has set them up to fail, writes JON TRICKETT MP

Our economy operates in the interests of those who own and manage the wealth which workers create. The current strike wave is seeking to redress the balance, says JON TRICKETT MP

How can it be justified to hand yet more riches to the already wealthy while poverty and foodbank use among ordinary people are on the rise, asks JON TRICKETT MP

This new government of right-wing zealouts is determined to use Britain as a testing ground for extreme free-market policies, with us as the lab rats, warns JON TRICKETT

This low-tax arms race shows things really can go from bad to worse for the British people, says JON TRICKETT

The Conservative government has claimed that ‘levelling up’ is central to their agenda, but even a cursory look at their policies shows they are clearly responsible for instead creating record levels of inequality, writes JON TRICKETT MP

Labour has broken ground on closing loopholes used by the super rich, but we need to think bigger and go deeper — changing the whole tax system to address inequality with the introduction of a 'wealth tax,' argues JON TRICKETT MP

Ahead of the Chancellor’s Spring Statement this week, JON TRICKETT MP reminds us what the ‘cost-of-living crisis’ is really all about

JON TRICKETT MP looks back 50 years to one of the most significant industrial struggles in Britain, to see what lessons there are for the labour movement today

JON TRICKETT MP looks back at the history of the early Labour Party, where working-class people took to Parliament only to represent the communities where they lived and died, without concern for their careers or personal enrichment

The cosmetic ‘facelift’ offered by the Tories in the Westminter corruption scandal fools nobody, as the need for drastic reform becomes obvious, writes JON TRICKETT MP

We cannot let this be another decade where the super-rich steal an even bigger slice of the pie at the workers’ expense – that’s why I’m calling for a £15-an-hour minimum wage, writes JON TRICKETT MP

Little has changed in the ruling class's contempt for and ruthless exploitation of working people over the last 128 years, argues JON TRICKETT

JON TRICKETT says the government's social care solutions punish the poorest

The Conservatives cannot see that failure to tackle health inequalities in society will hold back the success of the country as a whole. Resisting this ideology of selfishness must begin with forcing them to pay our health workers properly, argues JON TRICKETT MP

The miners who toiled away down the pit, creating the wealth and prosperity so enjoyed by the British state, should now get their due, says JON TRICKETT

Soaring joblessness and rates of infection and death almost a third higher than the UK average show that the old industrial areas of Britain are victims of this government's wealthy-first policy, says JON TRICKETT MP

The Tories have capitalised on Covid-19 to line the pockets of their privateer pals and rapidly advance the austerity agenda, writes JON TRICKETT MP

Labour must make pledging to build affordable housing central to its strategy going into 2021 and the fallout from Covid-19, writes JON TRICKETT MP

Jon Trickett looks at the devastation brought about by a decade of Tory rule

The Covid-19 pandemic has further exposed the deep and entrenched levels of poverty that exists in our country — we need a bold new programme, writes JON TRICKETT MP

Of course the government is badly organised, but its response to the pandemic is deliberate — it is ideological cronyism on an industrial scale and the left needs to call that out, writes JON TRICKETT MP

Amid turbulent times for the left Momentum Renewal is laying the groundwork for a fresh approach to politics to escape the malaise which often follows defeat, says JON TRICKETT