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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Now is our chance to take action over pay and school funding, argues GAWAIN LITTLE
DISGRACEFUL: Too many kids arrive at school hungry in Tory Britain
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
IT IS a sign of the state of Tory Britain in 2022 that 90 per cent of schools will face a real-terms cut to their budget next year.
Per pupil funding will suffer a real-terms cut of £147. For a school of 1,500 students, this equates to losing over £200,000 annually.
On top of historic real-terms cuts, which have seen school spending power reduced by £1.3bn, or 2.9 per cent, since 2015-16, this will have a disastrous effect on our children’s education.
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