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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
Capitalism has extracted itself from crisis before, argues PRABHAT PATNAIK – but through methods no longer available. So it is turning to authoritarianism, militarism and neocolonialism
The five young men killed in the A66 crash were responsible for a devastating tragedy — but the crash should force us to ask difficult questions about wider society, argues RENATA MEDEIROS MIRRA
Britain funds the policing of black culture 16 times better than the culture itself. The Diamond Jubilee is the moment to end that, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite Andy Burnham’s declaration defending the continued partition of the island, all major international and internal trends are converging to make Irish reunification inevitable
Humans are part of the ‘animal kingdom’ – and of nature in general – but also distinct from it and labour (work) is part of what makes us unique, declared Engels. His insights 150 years ago into how our species came to be and how we differ from the rest of nature, are as important today as they were then, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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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