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
Even the right hopes for a better left
Conservatives and centrists alike are recognising that the free-market system they’ve promoted doesn’t work; the goal is seemingly open, should we choose to kick the ball, writes ANDREW MURRAY
THE WORD IS OUT: A City worker walks past an anti-capitalist protest against the financial crisis, central London, 2011
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
NICK TIMOTHY was chief of staff to Theresa May during her floundering premiership. Now he is an even more worried man.
His new gig is writing for the Daily Telegraph, the readers of which are treated to a steady stream of apocalyptic warnings from its columnists. Mostly these blame familiar targets — the woke, the French, Brussels, the Civil Service “blob” — for impending calamity.
But Timothy has sprung a surprise. He blames the state of Britain squarely on capitalism. It is quite the indictment. He points out that businesses have been focused on pushing down wage rates, taking advantage of the weakening of trade unions to do so.
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