SOLOMON HUGHES says even electoral defeat isn’t a deterrent to right-wing MPs: pro-corporate policies might lose elections but they can be lucrative nonetheless
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Labour’s task is to seize this moment
Britain is crying out for change and investment in our crumbling infrastructure – will Labour have the courage to commit to the investment so desperately needed, asks JON TRICKETT MP
NHS junior doctors taking part in a march and rally in the centre of Birmingham, April 2023
Schools are at breaking point, argues NASUWT general secretary MATT WRACK — we urgently need investment in our kids’ futures
MIKE SCOTT assesses the AI threat to jobs in the first of a pair of articles on the problems it poses
Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
LAST week’s parade of competing Tory ghouls, strange apparitions and ideological monsters revealed a deep unease about the party’s prospects among leading figures.
But one thing stood out clearly — PM Rishi Sunak’s speech which set out the need to draw a line under the record of his party’s own period of government.
So even the Conservatives after 13 years of government recognise that they need to offer a rupture with the recent past.
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