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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ARTHUR WEST, joint convener of Scottish CND Trade Union Network, gives an update from the struggle to rid the world of nuclear weapons
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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
WESTMINSTER’S recent announcement that it intends to massively increase its nuclear weapons stockpile was very depressing to hear. It is also means that the government is moving away from its international obligations to reduce the amount of nuclear weapons in today’s world.
This wrong-headed approach adds considerably to the already catastrophic threat which nuclear weapons pose to the human race.
However, it was also a setback for anti-nuclear weapons campaigners to hear Labour shadow defence secretary John Healey going out of his way in a recent parliamentary speech to say that Labour’s support for keeping Britain’s nuclear weapons was non-negotiable.
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