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Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
Labour is too timid on housing policy
In the second part of his features mini-series GLYN ROBBINS explains why Miliband's party needs to embrace council housing as a central policy pledge
Communist Party leaders Alex Gordon and Lorraine Douglas deliver vital medicines in trip to besieged socialist island
TUC Cymru is playing a leading role in tackling far-right ideas in the workplace, says LAURA DOEL
A New Delhi press conference in which Sheikh Hasina and her son implied the new order in Bangladesh is a security threat to India has sparked fears she is planning a comeback. SIAM SAROWER JAMIL reports on the fallout
Two months of student unrest have forced out India’s education minister and rattled the BJP regime. Could this be the beginning of the end for Modi, asks Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY
MAT COWARD says the heatwave is a testing time for gardeners — but he has some tips
Since losing the last election, Labour has apologised for all sorts of things - Iraq, the economy and immigration. But not for its housing policy.
While in power, the party made a pact with neoliberalism that led to economic catastrophe and the worst housing crisis since the war.
Now, as it attempts to rebuild its credibility, there's an opportunity to reconnect with a disillusioned electorate on an issue that affects every aspect of our lives, while cutting across the divisive and reactionary politics of the Con-Dems and Ukip.
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