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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
New garden cities - old mistakes?
In the third part of his features mini-series GLYN ROBBINS examines the idealistic history of 'social cities' - and how modern versions struggle by being shackled to 'the market'
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
Marxist geographer David Harvey describes the history of urban policy as "fraught with utopian dreams."
From Robert Owen's New Lanark and model industrial villages like Port Sunlight and Bournville, to Georges Eugene Haussmann's Paris, Ildefons Cerda's Barcelona and Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, there's a long history of attempts to build the ideal place.
In Britain the most ambitious effort to rethink and redesign urban settlement was the post-war "new towns" programme.
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