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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Putin's Peter the Great act and Russia's imperial politics
EDMUND GRIFFITHS traces the development of the new Russian nationalism that has burst forth in its attack on Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures attends a plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St.Petersburg, Russia, Friday, June 17, 2022.
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
VLADIMIR PUTIN recently took advantage of Peter the Great’s 350th anniversary, celebrated on June 9, to claim to be continuing that emperor’s work.
Speaking after visiting an exhibition in Moscow entitled Peter the Great: Birth of an Empire, Putin told an audience of young entrepreneurs that Peter’s conquests had been defensive in nature and that Russia today needed to defend itself in similar fashion.
Appeals to the legacy of the Romanov dynasty are nothing new for Putin.
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