TUC passes motion urging ‘all public-sector unions to join a united campaign’ and ‘to plan for co-ordinated industrial action’ if needed

The Labour government must deliver on its commitment to bring back privatised services into the public sector. This not only saves money but also creates accountability and generates wider social benefits, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP

Despite promises of a new era of insourcing, billions of pounds of public contracts continue to flow to private firms. Unions are now calling for urgent action to bring services back in-house, says EDDIE DEMPSEY

Privatisation and the break-up of our integrated rail system have been disasters. The Labour government’s pledges on reindustrialisation and renationalisation offer the solution, argues DAVE CALFE of Aslef

PM tells MPs he want welfare cuts and backs Nato demands for soaring military spending

National Education Union welcomes move but tells PM to go further and refund careers advice for young people

TUC calls for tax increase on bank profits to pay for social tariff to cut household bills

Plaid Cymru marks 100 days in Welsh government

Social Housing Action Campaign blasts PM’s decision to break commitment to allocate 100% of Affordable Homes Programme to social rents

Andy Burnham could learn a few lessons from a previous Labour government in the pre-privatisation era on how to tackle water shortages, writes KEITH FLETT

Labour's Emily Thornberry calls on PM to ban goods from Israel-held Palestinian territory

Burnham urged to stand up to the fossil fuel giants and reject plans to drill Britain’s largest untapped oil fields

‘Ultimately, all of Reform's policies benefit big business and attack workers and the poor,’ Diane Abbott MP tells the Star

Peace activists and trade unionists to gather at RAF Fairford to protest against US bombers taking off from Britain to strike Iran

More than 1,500 London bus drivers set for heatwave strikes this Friday

The Defence Universities Alliance is a bit to co-opt higher education into the wider drive to war — we should resist as earlier generations of scientists did, argue say ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT of SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

As a proportion of GDP the total welfare bill is lower than it was 15 years ago. The claim that it is spiralling out of control is mythmaking, argues DIANE ABBOTT

The new PM may offer more of the same, but early signs on his housing policies look promising, says GLYNN ROBBINS

PM commits to blowing millions on nukes

Only a publicly run, properly funded system that puts dignity before profit can end decades of market failure, says PAUL DONOVAN

Andy Burnham’s leadership will be judged on whether he charts a genuinely different course, argues BECK ROBERTSON