Gaza’s collective sumud has proven more powerful than one of the world’s best-equipped militaries, but the change in international attitudes isn’t happening fast enough to save a starving population from Western-backed genocide, argues RAMZY BAROUD
‘High inflation and falling incomes are a particularly noxious combination’
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Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
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The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
INFLATION is today what it has always been – a device for attacking the living standards of working people, ensuring that real incomes fail to keep up with the impact of a depreciating currency.
Wage earners and retired workers, whose income depends entirely on monetary values, are always the hardest hit by this depreciation. Workers cannot transfer their wealth into more stable stores of value, whether it be gold, works of art or landed property.
Inflation is therefore a front in the class struggle. It is a means of transferring wealth from the working class to the employing class, by creating a disjuncture between nominal and real currency values.
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