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“The IWGB are trying to ensure a new generation of workers succeed, just like our fathers did before us.”
Understanding what caused the 2016 result is crucial to seeing what needs to be on offer in any future vote, says former Green Party leader Natalie Bennett.
In the first of a series on the 10th anniversary of the financial crisis, Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner argues that without banking reform, we are always at risk of another crash.
A motion pushing for a “simplified, free, statutory gender-recognition process based on self-declaration” was passed nem con.
Public schools perpetuate a system of social immobility. Kevin Gulliver argues that to build a fair Britain we need to end the likes of Eton and Harrow.
Labour MP Ian Murray: The hard Brexiteers threatening to rebel over Theresa May’s Chequers deal are clueless.
“Everything we have today has been fought for by people just like us, who came together, and sometimes died for each other, to give us decency and dignity.”
Women were at the forefront of the ‘anti-sweating’ campaign and early minimum wage debates, writes Nan Sloane in a new history of the labour movement.
Caroline Lucas has agreed to meet Woman’s Place UK, who are opposing changes to the Gender Recognition Act, while a former AM has ‘dared’ the party to expel him over the issue.
Labour has always been a broad church, but today succeed now the party must embrace the experimentation and intellectual radicalism of the early ILP.
