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Despite legal changes last year, abortion access in Northern Ireland remains a postcode lottery – and the trade union movement will be a key player in any fight to challenge the conservative status quo.
The Tories' plan to save social care won't get anywhere close, but that doesn't mean the problem is unsolvable – the real answer is a National Care Service, funded by taxing the rich.
No democratic society should accept the principle that its parliament includes hereditary peers or lifetime appointees – it's time to abolish the House of Lords.
A pioneering campaign from Salford Unison and the city's socialist council has won care workers a national pay rise worth £19 million – proving that strong organising can make dignity for care workers a reality.
On this day in 2003, the Iraq War began. It was an illegal invasion in the same mould as Putin's war in Ukraine – but almost two decades later, its architects have faced no consequences.
With millions facing poverty, Labour should be demanding that the government goes much further than the weak measures announced so far – instead, they're trying to cast those measures as irresponsible.
By pinning inflation on workers and wage demands, the Bank of England is covering up the real cause of rising prices: runaway corporate profits.
Far from drawing a line under party factionalism, the Starmer leadership has elevated the very Labour Right fixers whose conduct is most criticised in the Forde Report – and given them licence to remake the party in their image.
To confront ecological catastrophe, next week's COP would have to confront the profit-at-all-costs world system that locks us into disaster. Anything less is circus.
As an insight into a prime minister, the new Liz Truss biography missed its brief moment. But as a document of the Tory Party's identity crisis, it's evergreen.
With the country in crisis, the Tories have adopted the extremist language of the far-right to scapegoat asylum seekers for their own failures — and we can’t let them succeed.
Amid the worst squeeze on living standards in decades, Keir Starmer's Labour has a historic opportunity to transform this country – but yesterday's speech shows he's more concerned with staying in the establishment's good books.
Far from facing justice for their crimes, the perpetrators of the Iraq War are rehabilitated while anti-war voices are driven out of public life. There are fewer obvious signs of how broken Britain’s political system is.
From supporting the criminalisation of peaceful protest and granting spycops immunity to its crackdown on dissent, Keir Starmer's Labour Party has revived New Labour's contempt for civil liberties.
The blocking of Jamie Driscoll as North East Mayor shows that Labour is acting like a narrow clique with no respect for the party’s pluralist traditions.
If you want to understand why nothing in Britain works anymore, look no further than the free market economics that have put the country on a path to national decline.