16+ hour, 42+ min ago   (1322+ words) UNIONS will agree on the best economic roadmap for Britain at TUC Congress on Monday, piling pressure on Prime Minister Andy Burnham to introduce wealth taxes and reject “baseless myths” over an upcoming zero-hour contracts ban. Speaking to the Morning…...

19+ hour, 18+ min ago   (434+ words) THE record-breaking sums donated to Reform UK by two super-rich cryptocurrency speculators make it urgent to develop a mass-appeal politics of the millions, not the millionaires. The gap between Burnham’s stated project — correcting a wrong course he says Britain has…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (419+ words) CAMDEN Council leader Sagal Abdi-Wali has been chosen as the Labour candidate for the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. She will seek to defend the seat abandoned by former premier Sir Keir Starmer, in spite of his promises to serve…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (1374+ words) Merseyside’s proud tradition of internationalism is being kept alive through events organised by trade unionists and allies in the region, writes ROBERT MACDONALD ROB WARZYNIAK wades knee deep through a pile of ‘dead canaries’ of Trumpist policies which exacerbated the…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (843+ words) Some thinkers and authors on the right are openly discussing the possibility that the historically successful party of the British ruling class may be exhausted, writes KEITH FLETT ROB WARZYNIAK wades knee deep through a pile of ‘dead canaries’ of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (667+ words) ANDY BURNHAM pledged to “bring back hope” today in his first Commons address since becoming Prime Minister. Demarcating his approach from the gloom-laden approach of his predecessor, Mr Burnham was relentlessly upbeat in a message to MPs that was nevertheless…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (499+ words) ANDY BURNHAM, like all politicians who think of themselves as social democrats, is compelled by the logic of the capitalist system to choose between spending which begins to satisfy the legitimate desires, and indeed demands, of working people or meet…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (584+ words) THE Insource Now! campaign being launched by the RMT and Unison unions shames a Labour government that promised “the biggest wave of insourcing for a generation,” but has actually seen increased spending on private contractors within public services. High-profile campaigns…...

2+ week, 50+ min ago   (518+ words) ANDY BURNHAM’S visit to Wales coincided with today’s announcement of current youth unemployment. In Wales 17 per cent of young people available for employment are without work. Figures are worse in London and north-east England. Overall they are higher by 30,000 than…...

2+ week, 16+ hour ago   (955+ words) Despite Andy Burnham’s declaration defending the continued partition of the island, all major international and internal trends are converging to make Irish reunification inevitable, argues CHRIS HAZZARD MP ROB WARZYNIAK recalls the emblematic 1906 book, The Jungle, in its analysis of…...