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 working class needs a historic upsurge of resistance
How do we organise across our unions and communities to stop job losses in the face of allegedly ‘inevitable’ mass unemployment, asks BILL GREENSHIELDS
Every union at every level from the workplace upwards needs to make a full-on assessment of the effects of job loss — and what intervention is needed
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
CAN we challenge the “inevitability” of the “hard times” that Rishi Sunak — ex Winchester public-school Head Boy, millionaire 10 times over, $700 million hedge-funder, speaking from his £7m home — tells us are “now here,” reassuring us that, despite this, “no-one will be left without hope and opportunity?”
Of course, he means none of his class will be left without opportunity.
We know from long bitter experience that crises and recessions such as those building throughout 2019 are inevitable features of the “failed free market” (as Unite’s Steve Turner called it in his challenging Star article over the weekend) and the anti-working-class politics that go with it. And we know from such experience too that no narrow or sectarian campaign can substitute for such a broadly led movement based in our workplaces, towns and villages.
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