The campaign against the Bank of England’s ongoing theft of Venezuelan gold is gaining support across the labour movement and beyond, writes MATT WILLGRESS
THE pre-Christmas Register of MPs’ Interests shows our representatives have been pretty busy with moonlighting, side hustles and freebies.
Birmingham Labour MP Liam Byrne is a controversial figure. He was a Treasury minister before Labour lost the 2010 election.
Byrne left a note for his Tory-Lib Dem coalition replacement apologising to them because “I’m afraid there is no money” in the Treasury — it was a cack-handed joke that backfired badly, helping the Tory-led coalition justify punishing austerity measures.
Can entrenched institutional power be overcome?
Trade unions call for windfall tax hike to fund social energy tariff to public’s energy bills
Labour’s toxic centrists have wealthy backers but there’s little to suggest they can win over MPs or party members in an open fight, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests



