Frances O’Grady: Apple is sweating its labourers and Uber is screwing its drivers
This is the full text of the keynote speech delivered at TUC Congress today by general secretary Frances…
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Unions 21: We need a debate about how to reform workers’ groups
Writing a decade ago a reflective Robert Taylor, the Financial Times‘ former industrial correspondent, concluded that Britain’s union…
Why Blair had a right to speak out on immigration – and why his road ahead is a precarious one for Labour
Tony Blair was right to speak out. That doesn’t mean everything he was correct in everything he said…
Prospect: Brexit shows clearly why science needs a collective voice
The Brexit referendum and its aftermath have unleashed an unprecedented wave of change for Britain. Nowhere is this…
This is the chance for Watson and Labour to curb the “crack cocaine of gambling”
The glint of the screen, the noise it makes, and the feeling of being ahead. There is nothing…
Billy Hayes: The unity on the Left shows the fresh purpose Corbyn has given
Long, long, long. Finite beings it’s said cannot conceive of infinity because they are finite in themselves. Having…
Dawn Butler: We must be inspired by working class heroine Minnie Lansbury
How often are the stories of working class women not told as strongly as they should? How a…
The 52 per cent did not vote for this: Why Labour is right to oppose the Brexit bill
Labour is right to vote against the government’s EU (Withdrawal) Bill and it’s important to understand why. No…
Sturgeon’s plans shows yet again that SNP rhetoric doesn’t match their record
Nicola Sturgeon frequently asks to be judged on her record. If her programme for government tells us anything,…
Gloria de Piero: Vote today to ensure members’ voices’ are heard at conference
At the election in June, members old and new, campaigned with enthusiasm on a manifesto of hope and…
