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Socialist policies matter more than party politics
The success we have had in our region goes to show what progressive strategies can achieve outside of the grind of the two-party race, writes North of Tyne Mayor JAMIE DRISCOLL
JOHN REES looks at why the June 20 international anti-war conference is such a vital initiative
Associate Professor BUI QUANG TUAN explains how modernisation and growth are helping to unlock new foreign investment in the Vietnamese economy
New workplace rights are welcome, but the survival of the trade union movement will be determined not in Westminster but in workplaces across the country, argues JOHN CARSON
Nearly two decades after leaving office, the former PM is still trumpeting the same futile militarism and failed free market dogmas. The question naturally arises: why does anyone still listen to him, says ANDREW MURRAY
Very modest growth in membership serves to underline the need for a change of recruiting strategies, posits NIGEL FLANAGAN
“I’VE donated to your campaign,” an older gentleman told me in the street just this weekend. “I want the Tories out, but I’m not that hopeful Labour will change anything.” I get stopped in the cinema, at a cafe, on the Metro, at the shops. Every time I go out I hear the same thing.
I get the logic that if Labour apes the Conservatives, Tories can’t attack Labour policies. The Tories are so unpopular, in a two-party system, Labour will win by default — and then what?
Austerity failed. Even the IMF acknowledges that. Everything suggests the Labour leadership is serious about pursuing a neoliberal economic policy.
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