The campaign against the Bank of England’s ongoing theft of Venezuelan gold is gaining support across the labour movement and beyond, writes MATT WILLGRESS
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What exactly is the Green Prosperity Plan?
Is it a massive injection of public cash to the tune of billions — or is it another ‘fund’ to attract private finance? Don’t get your hopes up, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
The new Prime Minister must abandon decades of automatic support for US foreign policy, which makes us all less safe, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
Claims that Nicaragua has abolished elections followed a headline that stripped Daniel Ortega’s remarks of their historical and political context. The full speech tells a different story, says BECCA RENK FOSTER
Media Lens at 25: David Cromwell and David Edwards reflect on a quarter-century of media criticism, explaining why independent journalism is more important than ever
MAT COWARD introduces some of the electoral oddballs of the political fringe who remain one of the liveliest features of British democracy, despite efforts to abolish them
by Weyman Bennett and Maz’s family
THE Labour Party’s biggest remaining promise is a Green Prosperity Plan, promising to spend “£28 billion per year” investing in green jobs and insulation. That sounds like a big offer. But what does it say in the small print?
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves’s plan is modelled on Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. Looking at Biden’s scheme gives us clues to what will happen with Reeves’s plan.
Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is a trimmed-down version of his original “build back better” plan. That was an ambitious, New Deal-style mix of social and economic investment.
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