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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Too many teachers are seeing their pupils suffer with poor mental health
Children’s lives are being blighted by austerity and poverty in towns and cities up and down the country, writes KEVIN COURTNEY
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
“IT’S like a slow-motion car crash that I am powerless to stop and can’t bear to watch or be part of any more.”
This was a heartbreaking response from one of our members responding to a survey on the surge of mental health problems among young people.
The results of a questionnaire, conducted before our annual conference in Liverpool this week, make harrowing reading.
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