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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BRENDA AITCHISON argues only better funding for local authorities will bring true recognition of how key 'key workers' actually are
A gardener puts the finishing touches to a floral display thanking the NHS and key workers outside Birmingham City Council House
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
WHEN the July edition of Vogue magazine was posted through my door by my lovely key-worker postman, there wasn’t the usual cover star of model or actor. Rather staring out under the headline of The New Front Line was Anisa Omar, a supermarket assistant.
Vogue published three different covers for July, the other two covers featured Rachael Miller, a midwife, and Narguis Horsford, a train driver.
At the beginning of this year key worker was not a term used much in the media, certainly not in Vogue. However, that was from a time before the Covid-19 pandemic was declared in March by the World Health Organisation.
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