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RMT president Alex Gordon speaks at a protest outside the Labour Party conference site in Liverpool, September 22, 2024
[Ben Cowles]
SIR KEIR STARMER must employ emergency measures to prevent the rise of the far right, a People’s Assembly Against Cuts rally heard today.
Speaking at the demonstration outside the party conference site in Liverpool, RMT president Alex Gordon said this summer’s racist riots are a “reminder that the incoming Labour government has inherited a divided society reeling from 14 years of Tory austerity.”
Labour’s economic strategy “bears an uncanny resemblance to that of its defeated and demoralised Tory predecessors” and “this is a time for emergency measures not of more of the same,” he said.
As extremist movements grow on the streets and at the ballot box, the emergence of the Together Alliance points to a vital strategy: unity across trade unions, campaigners and communities, says TONY CONWAY
All the areas that cause working people to feel insecure have to be addressed, through a return to unashamedly pro-worker politics, if the horror of a Farage government is to be avoided, writes IAN LAVERY MP
