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
The ‘Battle of Bexley Square’ 90 years ago has stark resonance today
REBECCA LONG BAILEY looks back to 1931 and a protest of the unemployed at Salford Town Hall. Today’s struggles can draw inspiration and strength from them and their legacy
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
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
JIM JUMP looks forward to the International Brigade Memorial Trust AGM taking place in Belfast later this week where the spirit of solidarity will be rekindled
If we can tackle the big issues, like delivering decent public services and affordable state-built and owned housing by making the richest pay a fair amount of tax, Labour can win back the trust and support of the electorate, argues ANDY McDONALD MP
Huge protests against corruption and preventable deaths during flooding have rocked the government — the masses are not likely to be able to take direct control in their own interests yet, writes KENNY COYLE, but it’s a promising show of people power
ON OCTOBER 1 1931, in an era of mass unemployment and poverty, 10,000 unemployed men and women marched to Salford Town Hall at Bexley Square and were met with awful police violence.
They were trying to highlight the desperate situations they found themselves in and to hand in a petition protesting against means-tested benefits and unemployment.
The famous Salfordian author Walter Greenwood was there, and in his novel Love on the Dole he said: “Mounted police appeared at the trot, and, on a sudden, a swarm of plain-clothes men descended from nowhere and began to snatch the placards from the hands of the demonstrators, flinging the posters to the ground and trampling them underfoot … truncheons descending on heads with sickening thuds; men going down and being dragged off, unceremoniously, to the cells.”
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