FRAN HEATHCOTE believes that while the the Chancellor outlined some positive steps, the government does not appreciate the scale of the cost-of-living crisis affecting working-class people, whose lives are blighted by endemic low pay
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The nasty party’s mask comes off
Whoever is the Conservatives’ prime minister, austerity and privatisation will continue, public services will continue to be decimated, living standards will continue to fall, writes RICHARD BURGON – arguing that we need to secure a Labour government to remove a system that is rigged against the many
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is pouring €11.5bn into the Kiev swamp, blocking Trump’s peace plan, and pushing Nato right up to Russia’s borders – no matter if it costs hundreds of thousands of lives, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
The 2025 Budget shores up the PM’s political position with headline-grabbing welfare U-turns, but with no improvements on offer to declining public services or living standards, writes MICHAEL BURKE
The unifying victory of Irish progressive forces in the presidential campaign should be a salutary lesson to the left in this country, argues MARY GRIFFITHS CLARKE
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
A November 15 protest in Mexico – driven by a right-wing social-media operation – has been miscast as a mass uprising against President Sheinbaum. In reality, the march was small, elite-backed and part of a wider attempt to sow unrest, argues DAVID RABY
2017 saw easily the best Labour Party conference I’ve ever attended with more people, more participation, more politics and more positivity than at any conference I can remember.
And there was a great mix of people — young people, older people and people from all backgrounds and all areas of Britain.
And The World Transformed festival was almost like an Edinburgh Fringe of culture, discussion and fun to complement the greatest Labour conference in decades.
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