Labour Party

• Unite union rules conference: can Jeremy Corbyn re-democratise Labour?
  • 07 July 2015
  • On the day that Greek workers won the vote against austerity, Unite union delegates gathered for a week’s debate on the rules of the union and how to organise in Britain.

• People's Assembly demonstrations show something is changing
  • 23 June 2015
  • Up to a quarter of a million people came out on the streets last Saturday to show the new Tory government they are not prepared to put up with austerity. Socialist Worker journalists were with them on the protests

• Wave of rage against Tory austerity fills the streets of London
  • 20 June 2015
  • The streets of central London were alive with resistance as tens of thousands joined the End Austerity Now demonstration today, Saturday. The People’s Assembly organisers said that up to 250,000 had taken part. 

• Jeremy Corbyn joins Labour leadership race
  • 16 June 2015
  • Left wing Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn got onto the ballot paper for Labour leader with just minutes to spare on Monday of this week.

• Labour candidates booed at GMB conference after refusing to condemn benefit cap
  • 10 June 2015
  • Labour leadership candidates held their first trade union hustings at GMB conference in Dublin yesterday, Tuesday.

• Jeremy Corbyn MP on why he is standing for Labour leader: ‘I aspire to decent homes and jobs’
  • 09 June 2015
  • Jeremy Corbyn spoke to Socialist Worker about his different vision for the Labour Party

• Trade unionists say to Labour, ‘Stop copying Tory austerity’
  • 09 June 2015
  • The news that left Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn had put his name forward in the Labour leadership election cheered many trade unionists and socialists.

• GMB conference delegates want better than capitulation to austerity from Labour
  • 09 June 2015
  • The Tories’ renewed assault on workers and Labour’s general election defeat dominated the GMB union’s annual conference in Dublin this week.

• Bakers' union conference debates the alternative
  • 09 June 2015
  • The annual conference of food workers’ union Bfawu took place Sunday to Thursday of this week.

• Demand more than this Labour leadership contest
  • 02 June 2015
  • Millions of workers look for relief from the Tories’ latest onslaught. But activists looking at the Labour Party’s leadership election will despair.