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
Warning from France that echos in Telford
WEYMAN BENNETT urges support for the mobilisation against fascist ‘Tommy Robinson’ on Saturday
Stand Up To Racism demonstrators outside the Old Bailey in London as Tommy Robinson arrives for his sentencing in 2019
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
THIS Saturday, May 7, fascist Tommy Robinson, aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, the former leader of the violent and Islamophobic English Defence League, will be returning to the streets of Telford in Shropshire with his supporters.
Yaxley-Lennon is continuing his attempt to use the appalling grooming cases in the city to stir up division and claim — despite all the independent evidence to the contrary — that it is only the Muslim community who is responsible for such acts.
This is a horrible and cynical ploy by Robinson to use the victims of abuse to promote his own agenda. Let’s be clear from the start that he cares absolutely nothing for those who have suffered.
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