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Tosh McDonald speaking during the Labour Party's annual conference at the Arena and Convention Centre (ACC), in Liverpool, September 25, 2018
TRADE unionist and political campaigner Tosh McDonald is to stand as a Workers Party candidate in the general election.
Mr McDonald, former president of train drivers’ union Aslef, will stand in Doncaster Central in South Yorkshire.
The seat was held by Labour’s Dame Rosie Winterton, not standing for re-election, before parliament’s dissolution on May 30.
The campaign against the Bank of England’s ongoing theft of Venezuelan gold is gaining support across the labour movement and beyond, writes MATT WILLGRESS
In part II of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explores how witch-hunting drives took hold in the Civil Service as the cold war emerged in the wake of WWII
On the eve of the 157th Trades Union Congress, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ union, celebrates victory in his campaign to get dignity for drivers at work
