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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Trump’s return will only deepen the war spiral
Britain’s best option after the new president is sworn in in January is to simply opt out of his warmongering and demands for military spending, and make our own trade deals independent of the US for once, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
YES TO ARMS FOR UKRAINE, NO TO WINTER FUEL ALLOWANCE: Volodymyr Zelensky (left) and Keir Starmer at the meeting
of the Nato-Ukraine Council in Washington DC, in July 2024
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
THE voters of the US have spoken, even if we did not like what they said. A Donald Trump presidency 2.0 is a fact. All other political forces have to deal with that. The question is how?
The US is now the world’s second-largest economy, behind China. But it remains by far the world’s largest military power, with a military budget that exceeds the next five largest military powers combined.
It has military bases in about 80 countries, which is more than all other military powers in the world combined. It is the dominant power in Nato, the largest shareholder in the World Bank and the key ideological influence in the International Monetary Fund.
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