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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The scandal of blacklisting is far from over
A public inquiry is needed so that justice can finally be served, writes CHRIS STEPHENS
An anti-blacklisting protest on College Green in central London, November 2013
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
HAVING reported on these pages in the past about the bizarre and surreal nature of Westminster, six weeks ago I found myself rising in the chamber at Prime Minister’s Questions to ask a question that is usually dismissed by the Establishment and liable to have me labelled a conspiracy theorist.
It is one of the defining characteristics of the pantomime that is the House of Commons that MPs have to deploy the tactic of asking questions that they can predict the answer to in order to make a point.
I asked for a public inquiry into blacklisting. Ten years on since the discovery of the documents that revealed the true nature of the Consulting Association, the seriousness and widespread depth of the blacklisting conspiracy is coming to light.
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It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
To quell the public anger and silence the far right, Labour has rushed out a report so that it can launch a National Inquiry — ANN CZERNIK examines Baroness Casey’s incendiary audit and finds fatal flaws that fail to 'draw a line' under the scandal as hoped
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Shocking institutional racism in the schools system was exposed in a 1985 report highlighting the over-representation of black children branded ‘educationally subnormal.’ Four decades on the fight for justice continues, writes JAYDEE SEAFORTH