If there is one thing that can be said for Rachel Reeves’ budget, the first ever by a woman Chancellor of the Exchequer, it was
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Labour Party conferences are not necessarily important in themselves, because although they shouldn’t, Labour leaders generally ignore the democratically-arrived decisions of the Party membership. But

Editorial: trade union opposition to Labour austerity
In the coming months there will be increasing tension between the economic needs of trade union members and the austerity strategy of the new Labour

Editorial: labour movement must respond to pogroms by the far right
It is the fundamental responsibility of the organised workers’ movement to respond to the attacks by the far right on asylum seekers and Asian communities,

In these most unpredictable of times, we can be sure of one thing. In the coming months and years the small rebellion we saw this

Many workers will have breathed a sigh of relief when the odious Tory government was crushed a couple weeks ago and will have looked forward

Editorial: For the Tories a historic defeat, for Labour a wide but shallow victory
The Conservative Party this weekend is nursing the biggest political hangover in its entire history. It is hard to over-estimate the scale of their historic

Editorial: For the biggest possible Labour victory!
This government is the most rotten, corrupt and incompetent in modern times, and despite widespread distrust of the Labour leadership, Labour is the only viable

Rishi Sunak is staring down the barrel of the biggest Tory defeat in more than a century. Most of the first policy initiatives he announced

It appears that Diane Abbott is being allowed to stand as a Labour candidate, although the final decisions will not be certain until Labour’s NEC