Neil Findlay: My journey from brickie to Labour politician – and the injustices we have fought along the way
Over the last six years Scottish politics hasn’t been a place for the faint-hearted. The election of a…
Unions
Labour aims to overturn NHS pay cap as union anger mounts over May’s “betrayal”
Labour will today force a parliamentary vote on the public sector pay cap as it accuses Theresa May…
Labour Campaign for Free Movement: We must never be cowed by right-wingers
Immigration lotto Let’s all play immigration lotto – if you are lucky then your number will be called…
Jeremy Corbyn: Billionaire tax dodging press barons don’t like trade unions
This is the full speech delivered by Jeremy Corbyn, Labour leader, at TUC Congress in Brighton today. Congress, thank…
Dave Prentis: Tories’ inhumane public sector pay cap is creating a poverty trap
Yesterday at the TUC, I was proud to lead the debate on public sector pay. For Unison’s 1.3…
New poll puts Labour and Tories on level-pegging after weeks of Brexit rows
Labour and the Tories are locked in a dead heat in the latest opinion poll to be published.…
Denis MacShane: Blair was wrong on immigration as PM but he is right now
Predictably anything that Tony Blair says is met with knee-jerk rent-a-quote Tory, Labour and trade union denunciations. But…
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…
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…
