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TAX THE RICH: Anti-cuts protesters spell it out outside the
Features / 4 April 2025
4 April 2025
RICHARD BURGON MP argues that a broad, united mass movement can stop the cuts and ensure it’s the wealthiest that pay their fair share
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
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Features / 7 September 2021
7 September 2021
RICHARD BURGON MP says Labour needs to spell out a bold alternative with a National Care Service funded by taxes on the super-rich
Protesters outside BBC Broadcasting House in central London,
Features / 15 July 2021
15 July 2021
RICHARD BURGON MP warns that the Tories new Health and Care Bill is really about ensuring an even greater role for private companies in our NHS
People's Assembly march
Features / 23 June 2021
23 June 2021
RICHARD BURGON MP argues that the government will only deliver the change we need if we build the movements that demand it
It is time for sanctions to stop Israel’s war on Palestine
Features / 20 May 2021
20 May 2021
We need to demand real action from the British government as part of global pressure to force Israel to end its war on the Palestinian people, says RICHARD BURGON MP
British Gas
Features / 29 April 2021
29 April 2021
RICHARD BURGON MP argues that fire and rehire is the new Tory blueprint for the whole economy
Covid wheel chair
Features / 16 April 2021
16 April 2021
Disabled people have been hit especially hard by this pandemic, yet the government is refusing to increase benefits, writes RICHARD BURGON MP
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Features / 6 March 2021
6 March 2021
RICHARD BURGON MP says a massive programme of state investment is the best way of getting the economy growing and tackling the numerous crises our communities face
Nurse and vaccine
Features / 17 February 2021
17 February 2021
RICHARD BURGON argues that private control of the vaccines means hundreds of thousands of lives could be lost unnecessarily
Fire and rehire
Features / 27 January 2021
27 January 2021
The Thatcherites in the Cabinet present a real threat to workers’ rights, which our whole labour movement must unite to fight, argues RICHARD BURGON MP
Closed Rishi
Features / 13 January 2021
13 January 2021
The government needs to ensure workers can afford to stay at home, argues RICHARD BURGON MP
CND Girl
Features / 16 December 2020
16 December 2020
We need to make the case against a Tory military spending spree and for investment to tackle the real threats our communities face, argues RICHARD BURGON MP
A campaigner outside the Department of Health and Social Car
Features / 2 December 2020
2 December 2020
We need to ensure that this crisis is not paid for on the backs of the working class, argues RICHARD BURGON MP
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn hugs Joe Lambert as his mo
Features / 3 November 2020
3 November 2020
RICHARD BURGON MP argues that Jeremy Corbyn must be reinstated and the Labour Party united to take on the Tories
Masks sign
Features / 30 September 2020
30 September 2020
The left needs to co-ordinate around alternative policies if it’s going to force the government to change course, argues RICHARD BURGON
School protest
Features / 9 September 2020
9 September 2020
We need to demand bold policies in education and employment if we are to avoid a lost generation, argues RICHARD BURGON MP
Red flags
Features / 15 July 2020
15 July 2020
The severity of the crises we face coming out of Covid-19 only deepens the need for a radical socialist programme, writes RICHARD BURGON MP
British airways
Features / 1 July 2020
1 July 2020
RICHARD BURGON MP argues that we need to fight to stop BA’s attacks on workers’ pay and conditions becoming a blueprint for the whole economy
Money with House
Features / 10 June 2020
10 June 2020
RICHARD BURGON MP warns that there is a real danger that the coronavirus crisis will turn the housing crisis into a catastrophe
Empty Classroom Coronavirus 2
Features / 27 May 2020
27 May 2020
RICHARD BURGON MP argues that the government must only reopen schools and wider workplaces once it’s safe to do so
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Features / 13 May 2020
13 May 2020
With working-class people being treated as the canary in the mine, now is the time to fight back, argues RICHARD BURGON MP
NHS staff minute silence
Features / 29 April 2020
29 April 2020
As the bodies stack up, the slogan for International Workers’ Memorial Day — “remember the dead and fight for the living” — feels even more poignant than usual this year, writes RICHARD BURGON MP
No war protest
Features / 5 January 2020
5 January 2020
We need an international movement against war and for peace – and Labour must play its part, says RICHARD BURGON
Jeremy Speaking November 2019
Features / 30 November 2019
30 November 2019