Following a fratricidal period for the left with Morales and Arce at loggerheads, right-wing, anti-MAS candidates obtained over 85 per cent of the votes cast in the latest general election, writes FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ
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Conference shows Labour's left is unbowed
Despite the almost comically regressive agenda of the party leader, the last four days have seen major blows struck for the Labour left resistance against apartheid Israel and for a £15 minimum wage and it remains the major political vehicle for the working class, argues NICK WRIGHT
The US could imminently return to the Wild West days of widespread and sometimes violent corporate repression of workers, says MARK GRUENBERG
Thousands rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday, against the war of extermination of Gaza, reports AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN
From training Israeli colonels during the slaughter to protecting Israel at the UN, senior British figures should fear Article 3 of the Genocide Convention that criminalises complicity in mass killing, writes IAN SINCLAIR
General secretary of the YCL GEORGINA ANDREWS looks at the priorities of her organisation, from Palestine solidarity to trade unionism and fighting privatisation at a local level, ahead of its 52nd congress
LUKE FLETCHER fleshes out Plaid Cymru's plan for the revitalisation of Wales's economy
IT WAS a bold move by Keir Starmer to offer Labour Party members a pre-conference distillation of his most profound thoughts. And in setting them out at such length he has made it clear that any Labour accession to government under his leadership will not be driven by innovation or clear thinking but rather by a complete submission to capitalist financial orthodoxy.
The £15 minimum wage policy, to which former shadow employment minister Andy McDonald is committed, was casually abandoned in a routine parade of Treasury dogma designed to underline the truth that Labour is back under corporate control.
Cabinet collective responsibility would have put him in the impossible position of arguing against his own policy in a key meeting with union leaders and this, to his great credit, he would not do.
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