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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Is it a Fair Cop?
The cynical lack of clarity over Cop29’s financial arrangements suggests that the bill will be footed by poor countries, writes TOM HARDY
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking on day two of the Cop29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan
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
RISING sea levels, storms and droughts are not only destroying lives and ecosystems but are also pushing lower-income countries deeper into debt.
Cop29 was expected to address this injustice by urging wealthy nations, the main drivers of the climate crisis, to fund the damages they’ve caused.
The talks aimed to secure at least $1 trillion annually in grants for lower-income countries to manage climate disasters.
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