A burgeoning rebellion against Ed Miliband's divisive plans to break Labour's trade union link will be stepped up today at a meeting of grassroots party members in London.
Talks on how to defend the link will dominate the agenda at the annual conference of the Labour Representation Committee (LRC).
The campaign group, chaired by John McDonnell MP, has warned that Mr Miliband's proposal could wreck Labour's general election campaign.
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
Apart from a bright spark of hope in the victory of the Gaza motion, this year’s conference lacked vision and purpose — we need to urgently reconnect Labour with its roots rather than weakly aping the flag-waving right, argues KIM JOHNSON MP
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart


