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A plan for the renewal of Wales
Wales reporter David Nicholson talks to Morning Star columnist and Plaid Cymru economy spokesman LUKE FLETCHER ahead of the unveiling of his economic strategy for Wales
BOLD IDEAS: Luke Fletcher
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The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research explores the factors that are bringing today’s highly educated but often underemployed young people out onto the streets, from Chile, to Algeria, to Nepal
The nation’s leading second-hand socialist bookseller that has been running strong for 33 years is changing hands and expanding its vision — now is the time to get involved, buy, donate and support, writes ANDREW MURRAY
LUKE FLETCHER has been an elected member of the Senedd for just four years but his party’s hopes for electoral victory in next year’s election rest on his shoulders as he gets ready to publish Plaid’s economic strategy for Wales.
Fletcher is due to unveil the economic strategy he has been working on for a number of years now at Plaid’s conference in Llandudno tomorrow with the details to be published in a few months’ time.
We started by talking about his political influences when he grew up in Pencoed in the county borough of Bridgend in South Wales.
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