Andy Burnham’s leadership will be judged on whether he charts a genuinely different course, argues BECK ROBERTSON
What this new period means for our class
This is the finale to decades of free-market ideological war on our jobs, homes and lives. What seems like chaos reigns, but we must realise this is a well-organised attack – and our response must be too, writes HELEN O’CONNOR
We need to invigorate our movement, welcome in the best and the brightest, openly discuss class politics and arm them with the knowledge and skills they need to become committed and knowledgeable workers’ leaders.
While Italy’s communist tradition remains fragmented and politically marginal, France’s party is attempting to re-establish itself as an independent force rooted in working-class organisation, says NICK WRIGHT
Critics of UBI underestimate both its political significance and its economic potential, writes BERT SCHOUWENBURG
As Ontario burns, campaigners are demanding action – not more pipelines, says DAVE McKEE
Innovation in biotechnology is changing how we conceive of meat, say ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT of SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
AS SOCIALISTS and trade unionists, we recognise that we are entering a new period of endemic political and economic instability.
For the last 40 years the neoliberal experiment and globalisation rested on the capitalist class taking many of the important gains made by previous generations of working-class people.
A deliberate and highly organised strategy was deployed by big business and their backers to weaken and divide the labour and trade union movement and this has been highly successful.
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