ROGER D HARRIS and SARA FLOUNDERS challenge propaganda against the blockaded socialist island
We won’t let the 99% pay for this crisis
The Tories want the vast majority of people to pay for this crisis - but co-ordinated action can stop them, argues RICHARD BURGON MP
People take part in a People's Assembly demo in 2016
Marx and Engels incorporated in their writings a critique of the way that capitalism destroys the environment but it is only in the last half century that environmental concerns have become an integral part of the fight for socialism, writes the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
The racist Republican tactic of redistricting to keep Trump and his base in power is turning the clock back to the 1950s, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
With a political crisis engulfing the Labour Party, the case for PR is back on the agenda. TONY BURKE argues trade unions must now engage on changes to our voting system
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
OUR ruling elite has shown itself to be completely out of touch throughout this crisis — from the PM’s rule-breaking parties to VIP fast-lanes dishing out corrupt Covid contracts and MPs earning millions in second jobs.
But perhaps nothing has been as tone-deaf as the recent remarks from the Bank of England boss for workers to show pay restraint to prevent runaway inflation.
“We do need to see restraint in pay bargaining, otherwise it will get out of control,” bank chief Andrew Bailey warned.
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