US-based labour and social movements authors and organisers Robert Ovetz and James Tracy interview DANIEL GROSS about his new book, Unions of Our Own: Eight Building Blocks to Change Work and the World
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The farcical return of the ‘trickle-down’ myth
Truss and Kwarteng are determined to rerun failed free-market policies, but this time taken to new, devastating extremes that will see living standards in Britain slip behind eastern Europe, warns IAN LAVERY MP
Prime Minister Liz Truss on a visit to New York
JOHN CALLOW introduces the work of Geoffrey Trease, who placed ordinary people at the centre of his historical fiction for children, creating adventurous stories to inspire the possibilities of social change
The Isle of Wight’s Victorian holiday boom drew visitors from across Europe, including the founders of scientific socialism, writes KEITH FLETT
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
Unless ministers match reform with investment, the profession and the people it serves will continue to bear the cost, says KATE RAMSDEN
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
WHEN announcing her plans to tackle the cost-of-living crisis last week, the new Prime Minister said that she is “willing to be unpopular.”
What she means by this is that she is willing to be unpopular with the ordinary man and woman on the street who she does not have to interact with.
She is not, on the other hand, willing to be unpopular with the bankers who she is lifting the bonus cap of.
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