IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
We stand on the verge of momentous change
MARK PERRYMAN explains why Brexit can’t be the sum total of a winning Labour campaign
PAOLO SANTALUCIA reports on how an Italian region defies US pressure to end a Cuban doctors programme
HENRY FOWLER outlines the GFTU’s new 2026-27 education programme and argues that investing in trade union education is essential to building worker power, developing leaders and strengthening collective action
We need a government that invests in saving lives not destroying them, argues SOPHIE BOLT
More expensive by weight than gold, saffron is surprisingly simple to grow. MAT COWARD explains
The public inquiry is the result of more than a decade of determined campaigning. Now, those who fought for justice want the full story of government involvement and police conduct to be told, says KATE FLANNERY
The Durham Miners’ Gala is a celebration of working-class culture, but also a call to action — to rebuild workers’ collective strength, says KIM JOHNSON MP
BREXIT’S impasse has become all-pervasive. It isn’t to decry the importance of the issue, however, to point out that just down the road from Labour’s Brighton conference venue in Lewes, where I live, schools being threatened with forced academisation has precious little to do with whether we stay in the EU or not.
Nor is it to do with the EU that head teachers, wrongly in my view, have been driven to this most desperate of measures because of the chronic lack of resources all primary schools now face.
Lewes is a small market town of 16,000 persons. Unless Brighton and Hove Albion are at home or it’s our annual bonfire, there is no permanent uniformed police presence, the police station has been closed and turned into a glorified phone box.
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