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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Making waves for Corbyn
Corbyn’s leadership destroyed the cosy Establishment consensus that austerity was necessary and there’s greater class consciousness than there has been for decades. These are good reasons why the left should not give up, writes CHELLEY RYAN
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 right-wing media are having orgasms over the anti-democratic decision of Sir Keir Starmer and the NEC to prevent the members of Islington North from reselecting Jeremy Corbyn as their candidate for the fourth decade running.
According to Starmer’s motion voted on by the NEC, Corbyn puts a Labour victory in jeopardy because he single-handedly lost the 2019 general election.
The bulldozing of the “red wall” by Boris Johnson with his winning “Get Brexit done” slogan has absolutely nothing to do with the slippery, empty vessel that is the current Labour leader.
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