The Labour leadership’s narrow definition of ‘working people’ leads to distorted and unjust Budget calculations, where the unearned income of the super-wealthy doesn’t factor in at all, argues JON TRICKETT MP
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Attempts to overturn Brexit are misguided
If Remainers somehow manage to reverse the referendum result, they will have destroyed many Leave voters’ faith in democracy forever, argues CHELLEY RYAN
CLASS INTERESTS: Labour’s Chuka Umunna (left) and pro-EU campaigner, millioneress Gina Miller at the launch of their Brexit ‘Facts Bus’ in London, before its national 8-day tour
Brazilian workers are calling for internationalist brigades to defend Venezuela from US attack, reports WT WHITNEY JR
KEITH FLETT recalls ‘the most advanced political programme to appear on the left until the time of the Bolsheviks’
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY ask how an 80-tonne whale that lives 200 years is so resistant to cancer
Sixty years of blockade have not made Cuba collapse, but they have devastated it. While Washington stands isolated at the United Nations, the Cuban people are paying the price, writes KATRIEN DEMUYNCK
As Armistice Day approaches, with the far right hoping to use it to promote their own form of ‘patriotism,’ NICK WRIGHT considers the nature of conflicts in the 20th and 21st centuries and the different ways they should be remembered
WHEN people cast a vote in an election or referendum, they don’t just vote with their heads. They vote just as much with their emotions.
But some Remainers are clearly choosing to ignore this fundamental truth in their desperate bid to overturn Brexit.
It’s as if 17.5 million people are just a minor inconvenience, to be swept under the political rug like dirt.
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