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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China: Labour must choose co-operation or oblivion
With the doomsday clock now set at 90 seconds to midnight, Labour urgently needs a China strategy distinct from that of the US, writes PAUL ATKIN
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer welcomes Ashley Dalton (centre left) to the Houses of Parliament in London as the newly elected Labour MP for West Lancashire
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
WE need to step back from any policies or ways of thinking that will set the Doomsday Clock even closer, or take us right into armageddon.
Whatever critique anyone has of China, or aspects of Chinese policy, a programme of disengagement and decoupling like that advocated by Sonny Leung and Sam Goodwin on Labour List last month, which involves cutting off Chinese investment and trade and limiting overseas students, would lock us into an economic war that is an inexorable step towards the real thing.
This is not hyperbole. There is a strong body of opinion in US foreign policy circles that the US needs to fight a war with China this decade by stoking up tensions around Taiwan, as the only way to prevent its peaceful economic rise and increasing technological sophistication overhauling the US and putting an end to any prospect that the 21st will be a “new American century.”
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