Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
Florence factory workers light the way for green industrial struggle
Comrades from a British solidarity network highlight how an automotive factory occupation in Italy shows how worker-led militancy can challenge both job losses and environmental destruction
CEREN SAGIR reports from the CND fringe meeting during the Labour conference, where speakers slammed a system where £99 billion nuclear arsenal replacement costs are ring-fenced while the two-child benefit cap remains
CND’s Stop the Nuclear Nightmare conference in Glasgow will be an important step towards destroying the false arguments that weapons and war spending will lead to job creation and prosperity, rather than bringing Armageddon closer, writes SIMON BARROW
KIM JOHNSON MP places the campaign in the context of the history of the working-class battles of the 1980s, and explains why, just like Orgreave and the Shrewsbury Pickets before it, justice today is so important for the struggles of tomorrow
REBECCA LONG BAILEY MP writes that it is time not just to adopt policies that will revitalise the lives of workers, but speak honestly and openly about whose side we are on and who the Labour Party is for: the millions, not the millionaires
All the areas that cause working people to feel insecure have to be addressed, through a return to unashamedly pro-worker politics, if the horror of a Farage government is to be avoided, writes IAN LAVERY MP
TUC Congress in Brighton this year debated four separate motions on the climate crisis. All of the motions call for a just transition to make sure that workers in the energy, transport and manufacturing industries are not simply thrown on the dole.
Appeals to the new Labour government were aplenty, but what was absent from every motion was the need for industrial militancy to ensure that a just transition leading to a decarbonised economy does not result in working-class communities being decimated by long-term unemployment.
Some in our movement describe this as pie in the sky, but workers have taken the lead in defending the environment in the past, and it is essential that they do so again.
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