AGAINST the government, against Reform UK. The politics of the biggest celebration of working-class culture in Europe, the Durham Miners’ Gala, were clear — and angry — on Saturday.

It is from the strong and secure foundations of the experience in action of building such a united front that a new party ...

THE Labour leadership is adopting a scorched-earth policy to social programmes and public spending, with no section of society safe from their cuts. The consequences will be very grave for some of the ...

UNITE overwhelmingly voted today to suspend the Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner’s membership and announced it was ...

WORKPLACES nationwide are not equipped to deal with heatwaves and are putting workers at risk as extreme weather becomes more ...

UNIONS have hit back at Whitehall plans to cut public-sector pensions by offering workers wage increases in exchange for ...

The newly renovated Redhills — the magnificent “pitmen’s parliament” built for gatherings of every lodge in the Durham ...

AT LEAST 10 Palestinians, including children, were killed by an Israeli attack in the early hours of today while they were ...

The Birmingham bins dispute — where a nominally Labour council is intent on a programme of wage cutting more vicious than any ...

REGIONAL mayors will get new powers and be elected by the “preferential” voting system again under the government’s new ...

The Tories rejected an Orgreave inquiry. However, in October 2024, we held a positive meeting with the Home Secretary to discuss the Labour government’s commitment to an inquiry. A commitment that has ...

The $4 billion (around £3bn) that the US pledged for the global HIV response for 2025 disappeared virtually overnight in ...