NOT THE PEASANTS’ REVOLT: Some well-heeled types make their objections to millionaires paying tax on rural property known, London, November 19 2024
Charles Lubselski pays tribute to a lifelong communist and supporter of the Daily Worker and Morning Star
Ten days after right-wing destabilisation attempts, Mexico’s leadership has emerged strengthened, securing historic labour and wage agreements, while opposition-backed protests have crumbled under scrutiny, says DAVID RABY
Fuelled by economic abandonment and a collapsing faith in politics, Farage’s party is transforming grievance into momentum north of the border, warns COLL McCAIL
A searing scrutiny hearing has uncovered thousands of undelivered appointments, vanishing data and a system in chaos – galvanising councillors, patients and activists to demand urgent reform and an NHS dentist for all, writes SIMON BRIGNELL
MUCH of the language in the debate on how inheritance tax changes will affect farmers has been intemperate, inaccurate and deliberately inflammatory.
In the Scottish Parliament, the Tories accused the Labour government of “taking our land.”
The SNP backed them up, claiming that the proposed change to end the 100 per cent exemption of farms from inheritance tax was “catastrophic” for the farming industry in Scotland.
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
RICHARD BURGON MP points to the recent relative success of widespread opposition to the Labour leadership’s regressive policies as the blueprint for exacting the changes required to build a fairer society
