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WORKERS’ RIGHTS: Labour MP for Leeds East Richard Burgon o
Features / 20 January 2025
20 January 2025
RICHARD BURGON MP says the government should use the Employment Rights Bill to reverse a shameful Tory decision on discrimination
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, Prime Minister Si
Labour Conference 2024 / 23 September 2024
23 September 2024
RICHARD BURGON MP, who voted against the cut to winter fuel allowance, warns against a return to austerity, introducing his ideas that could raise billions to properly fund public services and boost wages instead
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt leaves 11 Downing St
Features / 6 December 2023
6 December 2023
RICHARD BURGON MP lays out a plan for taxes on the wealthy as an alternative to yet more Tory austerity
Time to bury the Tory policies driving this crisis
Labour Party Conference 2023 / 7 October 2023
7 October 2023
RICHARD BURGON MP writes that rebuilding Britain will require not simply a Labour government, but a conscious ditching of the Tory ideology and policies that have caused so much damage
C&O 29.6.23
Features / 28 June 2023
28 June 2023
RICHARD BURGON MP says we need to prevent the Tories from using this crisis to push another era of damaging austerity
Protesters outside Downing Street, London, demonstrating aga
Features / 1 February 2023
1 February 2023
RICHARD BURGON argues that the Tories are becoming more authoritarian as opposition to their reactionary policies grows
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Features / 18 November 2022
18 November 2022
RICHARD BURGON MP argues the labour movement must put wealth taxes at the heart of its alternative to Tory cuts
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Analysis / 25 October 2022
25 October 2022
Ahead of the Latin America Conference 2023 in January, RICHARD BURGON MP looks at the 'second pink tide,' a new wave of social progress across the continent — and why solidarity remains as important as ever
GROWING SOLIDARITY: Workers from different unions and their
Features / 23 September 2022
23 September 2022
We might be leading in the polls, but our devastated country cannot wait up to two years for an election — Labour must be forcing concessions and retreats from Truss’s obscene neoliberal cabal here and now, writes RICHARD BURGON MP
Tory austerity
Features / 7 June 2022
7 June 2022
RICHARD BURGON MP argues that whoever is Tory leader, only strikes and mass protest will force the changes we need.
Peoples Assembly protest
Features / 12 February 2022
12 February 2022
The Tories want the vast majority of people to pay for this crisis - but co-ordinated action can stop them, argues RICHARD BURGON MP
Richard Burgon & Barry Gardiner PA march
Features / 9 January 2022
9 January 2022
We need to step up the fight for progressive solutions to the health and cost-of-living crisis, argues RICHARD BURGON MP