Branding young unemployed people as feckless welfare scroungers is both inaccurate and counterproductive, says ERNIE JACQUES. This simplistic perspective reframes a complex macroeconomic challenge as an individual failing. ‘Tackling the NEETs crisis will require long-term, specific and systemic change.’...
Hope was in the air and on the walls at Labour’s recent conference in Liverpool. JOHN CUNNISON sat through every speech. Here’s a delegate’s view of an event that may (or may not) become a landmark in Labour history....
Principle 5, the Sheffield-based co-operative resource and education centre, has revamped its website with new sections, simpler and quicker navigation, and a new co-op mapping tool....
Andy Burnham’s big task of bringing down the benefits bill is about much more than money, says MARY HULL. It’s about the kind of society we want to be. ...
JOHN CUNNISON recalls a long-forgotten chapter of working class struggle in Stoke-on-Trent that local activists and historians are bringing back to life....
Understanding anti-Reform voters could be key to blocking Nigel Farage’s electoral route to Number 10 according to a new report from the anti-extremist campaign group, Hope not Hate. ...
Bold, savvy and pragmatic, Andy Burnham’s first few weeks as prime minister have been impressive, says JOHN CUNNISON. But these are early days and numerous challenges remain from the Starmer era....
Anthony Crosland’s ‘The Future of Socialism’ was published 70 years ago and its influence on the Labour Party has lasted for decades. So does it have anything to tell us today? ARUN LEWIS has his doubts....
We’re constantly told about a ‘bloated’ disability benefits bill, yet disabled people struggle with unsuitable services and unaffordable costs. We need to look at the issue a different way, says SANDRA WILSON....
‘Mainstream has galvanised individuals and groups across the party who are looking, not only for a change of political direction, but a shift in the party’s political culture. Both are much needed.’ ...
July marks 90 years since the start of the Spanish Civil War, a brutal three-year conflict in which British working class volunteers played a valuable part. DAVID CONNOLLY reviews historian Chris Hall’s latest account of ‘the passionate cause’....
More than 90 per cent of Northern Ireland’s children still attend segregated schools. In a parting missive to his adopted home, CHRIS WILSON makes a plea for integrated education....