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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There is a disconnect between academia and the lives of working-class people, says JULIAN VIGO
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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
DURING Italy’s Valle Giulia riots on March 1 1968, approximately 4,000 people gathered in Rome’s Piazza di Spagna and marched through the Sapienza University’s campus with the intention of occupying the school.
When they arrived at the campus, many of the students found themselves confronted with a police bloc which soon broke away to deal with a violent incident by a single student.
Instead of holding a peaceful protest, many of the students reacted against the police by throwing stones and other sharp objects.
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