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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Reclaim the rebel rep
Somehow Johnson did a better job of framing himself as anti-Establishment than Corbyn — CHELLEY RYAN explains how
INSURGENT: How did a lifelong political subversive like Corbyn come to be seen as part of the Westminster Establishment?
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
BACK in the dark post-general election days of 2015 when Labour had just suffered its second defeat in five years, there was a group of people within our own party who could barely conceal their delight over our loss.
For them this represented a golden opportunity to take our party back to the unequivocal right. In those pre-Corbyn days, Ed Miliband, or “Red Ed” as the red tops liked to call him, was too left-wing for these people. His policy on the mansion tax and non-doms was the politics of envy and it had stopped us winning a resounding victory.
Of course many of us knew this was bollocks. What lost us the election was an uninspiring, incongruent manifesto that was neither fish nor fowl. Less red and more an ugly shade of fuscia. For every inspiring policy there was an Establishment-appeasing policy to cancel it out. Our voters just stayed at home.
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While Reform poses as a workers’ party, a credible left alternative rooted in working-class communities would expose their sham — and Corbyn’s stature will be crucial to its appeal, argues CHELLEY RYAN
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