Decommissioned railway tracks have been ‘repossessed’ by nature with wild birds the prominent protagonists, writes MARK SEDDON
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Betrayal after betrayal, I have given up on Labour
Leaving after 50 years in the Labour Party, national secretary of Women Against Pit Closures HEATHER WOOD says Reeves’ and Starmer’s winter fuel allowance cuts are a red line crossed — and calls for widespread union resistance
A RADICAL POSE: Neil Kinnock, then Labour Party leader, addresses a mass rally for nuclear disarmament, 1983
ROGER MCKENZIE recalls the one-in-a-generation communist leader murdered at the dawn of a new South Africa 33 years ago last April 10
Ignorance of working-class history leaves working people open to deceptive narratives, demagogy and political manipulation, writes SAN SENIK
Delegates rejected calls to disaffiliate after a passionate three-hour debate, while warning the Labour leadership that working-class members demand change
TUC Cymru’s programme offers a potential roadmap for co-operation between Labour and Plaid Cymru on jobs, services and economic democracy, says DAI MORGAN
HAZEL PRING and MAX DICKINSON introduce The Angry Summer Project, a fringe for the TUC Cymru Congress
IT’S 28 days since Labour was elected with a massive majority and it’s now three days since it announced its blatant attack on pensioners.
It’s now just over 365 days since I left the Labour Party, the party I gave my life to, the party I worked for for over 50 years.
I’ve seen Labour governments come and go and, like many, I’ve been disappointed so many times but kept the faith because I always saw Labour as the only alternative to the Tories.
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