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
Brics: necessary, exciting, but ultimately limited
The need to balance the economic domination of the US has led to a coalition of emerging economies — but politically, it is far less coherent than the G7. That will be a problem, explains ANDREW MURRAY
TACTICAL ALLIANCE: (From left) Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, China’s President Xi Jinping, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the 2023 Brics summit
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
UNBRIDLED US power has brought endless misery to the world. The post-cold war “unipolar moment” has been marked by bloody wars of aggression and the imposition of neoliberal economics across the globe, with the 2008 crash as its memorial.
The good news is that the power of Washington is passing, albeit too slowly. The military defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan and the banking crisis will be inscribed on its tombstone. The US is a declining power.
Opposition to US imperialism and, by extension, its British helpmate, remains central to progressive politics across the world. Diverse political options can only mature outside its shadow.
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