To save our services simply tax the super-rich RICHARD BURGON MP lays out a plan for taxes on the wealthy as an alternative to yet more Tory austerity
Features | Saturday 07th Oct 2023 Labour Party Conference 2023 Time to bury the Tory policies driving this crisis
Features | Wednesday 28th Jun 2023 We need to take on the Tory claim that public investment is unaffordable
Wednesday 09th Sep 2020 Tory failures risk robbing young people of their future We need to demand bold policies in education and employment if we are to avoid a lost generation, argues RICHARD BURGON MP
Thursday 16th Jul 2020 We must create a state that serves people, not capital The severity of the crises we face coming out of Covid-19 only deepens the need for a radical socialist programme, writes RICHARD BURGON MP
Thursday 02nd Jul 2020 Solidarity with BA workers – their fight affects us all RICHARD BURGON MP argues that we need to fight to stop BA’s attacks on workers’ pay and conditions becoming a blueprint for the whole economy
Wednesday 10th Jun 2020 Rent freezes are needed to avoid mass evictions RICHARD BURGON MP warns that there is a real danger that the coronavirus crisis will turn the housing crisis into a catastrophe
Wednesday 27th May 2020 Put people before profit — end lockdown only when safe RICHARD BURGON MP argues that the government must only reopen schools and wider workplaces once it’s safe to do so
Thursday 14th May 2020 The Covid-19 crisis is class politics laid bare With working-class people being treated as the canary in the mine, now is the time to fight back, argues RICHARD BURGON MP
Thursday 30th Apr 2020 Let’s remember the dead and fight for a society fit for the living As the bodies stack up, the slogan for International Workers’ Memorial Day — “remember the dead and fight for the living” — feels even more poignant than usual this year, writes RICHARD BURGON MP
Sunday 05th Jan 2020 No to Trump’s reckless push for war We need an international movement against war and for peace – and Labour must play its part, says RICHARD BURGON
Friday 08th Nov 2019 Real change is coming — and the billionaires know it After a decade of Conservative and Lib Dem austerity, the country is ready for real change — only a radical Labour government can deliver that, writes RICHARD BURGON