Tag: Andy Burnham
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10,000 opportunities but not a single job
Welcome to another instalment of the crisis of capitalism Andy Burnham’s Labour administration has announced the launch of the new Modern Work Experience Programme with Sainsbury’s, suggesting that it will make 10,000 ‘work experience’ positions available to young people in a supposed attempt to address declining employment among teenagers leaving school. According to The Independent,…
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Andy Burnham and the search for a working-class hero
The Makerfield by-election was never really about Makerfield.It was about a growing crisis inside British politics. Labour’s enormous parliamentary majority has not delivered popularity. Quite the opposite. After two years of attacks on workers, continued austerity, support for Nato’s war agenda and unwavering backing for Israel’s genocide of Gaza and slaughter in Lebanon, public faith…
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Manchester Houses Aren’t Homes
Andy Burnham’s Dodgy Deals With Property Developers Are About Far More Than Simple Corruption It is now over a decade since the Greater Manchester Mayors position was created as part of a stitch up deal between the Labour Party and the Tory-Liberal coalition. Portrayed by the propaganda of the time as being part of the…