This week the Welsh trade union movement comes together in Llandudno for TUC Cymru congress to debate motions and consider priorities for the next two years. JESS TURNER sets the stage
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A boost for the back-room boy
SOLOMON HUGHES reports on how a mega-wealthy hedge fund manager is dishing out cash to a ‘cringe’ Labour Party mediocrity with contempt for the voters
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks to guests as he hosts a reception to mark Burns Night, in 10 Downing Street, central London, January 22, 2025
Blocked fertiliser exports and an extreme climate fluctuation may spell disaster for global food production, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
HOLLY TURNER, DR EMMA RUNSWICK, JORDAN RIVERA and PAULA DUNNE reflect on their joint union fringe meeting at this week’s Royal College of Nursing Congress in Liverpool
The Employment Rights Act marks a major victory for workers, but without stronger enforcement and collective organisation, its promises may fall short, says ALICE BOWMAN
The ghosts of Custer’s doomed campaign haunt a modern America still devoted to waging imperialist war, says STEPHEN ARNELL
Trump’s drive for ‘regime change’ in Cuba has deepened the crisis across the island – while Venezuela has reaffirmed its commitment to Bolivarian solidarity, says FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ
ONE of the few innovations of Keir Starmer’s Labour leadership is allowing multimillionaires to bypass the Labour Party and directly choose who gets ahead in the party and who doesn’t.
The latest example of this appears in the Register of MPs’ Interests: Josh Simons, Labour MP for Makerfield, says hedge fund boss Martin Taylor has given him £47,000 “to support my work as a member of Parliament.”
That’s a lot of money which will help Simons build his profile and get more noticed in the party. Taylor, who is a multimillionaire, is just bypassing all those annoying Labour Party meetings and conferences and throwing a load of money to build up one of his favourite centrist MPs.
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Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
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