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Tories ridiculed for proposing to ban four day week

Chris Jarvis
Yesterday

“Yet again we witness the political gymnastics of this outdated and out of touch Conservative Party descend into a collective swoon over the terrifying prospect of a council functioning better whilst saving the tax-payer money.”

A group of people on a stage with a sign reading four day week

New petition calls for referendum on public ownership of water

Chris Jarvis
Yesterday

Feargal Sharkey is backing the petition

WASP campaigners who have launched the petition for a referendum for public ownership of water

Labour’s achievements this week: Lifting 450,000 children out of poverty and delivering workers’ rights

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

Change doesn’t happen overnight, yet slowly and surely, this government is delivering after 14 years of Tory austerity

Keir Starmer

Latest Posts

A hostile environment: How the rhetoric of Enoch Powell still looms large fifty years on

Nick Plumb
20 April, 2018

The Windrush deportation scandal is just one sign it’s time to banish the shadow of Enoch Powell for good.

Parliament’s attack on landlords doesn’t go far enough

Joana Ramiro
19 April, 2018

MPs are proposing that criminal landlords have their properties taken away, but campaigners suggest local authorities lack the resources to even enforce current law.

Is this EU trade deal the new TTIP?

Tony Burke
19 April, 2018

While TTIP failed, Europe is now trying another sneaky deal giving corporations obscene amounts of power.

Oscar winner comes out for the Green Party in locals

Joana Ramiro
19 April, 2018

Mark Rylance has publicly shown his support for the Greens by posing with the party’s local council candidates.

Gaza shows how UK strikes on Syria won’t defend innocent lives

Keith Taylor
19 April, 2018

Past interventions in Yemen and Palestine have taught us that the Syrian strike is unlikely to be about (nor successful in) protecting defenceless civilians.

The Windrush generation is not alone – children of EU-born citizens could be next

Nando Sigona
18 April, 2018

EU citizens’ rights to future residence and citizenship could be thrown into question after Brexit – with children worst affected.

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18 April, 2018

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Thatcher’s ‘shareholder democracy’ failed. Here’s how we create an economy for the 21st century

Josiah Mortimer
18 April, 2018

A new report sets out some radical models for democratic ownership, ahead of a live Left Foot Forward/Co-Operative Party Q&A this Friday.

Super-sized lies: How the Sun tried and failed to smear the #McStrike

Ali and Lauren
18 April, 2018

Two McDonald’s strikers respond to an attack piece by the Sun – and say the campaign for decent conditions is growing by the day.

women at work in the mid-20th century - black and white

The gender pay gap cannot be tolerated any longer

Dawn Butler
17 April, 2018

Companies failing to address the gender pay gap have to pay up, writes shadow women and equalities minister Dawn Butler.

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