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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How the working class and women were usurped in pandemic mitigation
Renters, the poor and freelancers are a class abandoned during the pandemic, while the mega-rich and their lives of luxury are left undisturbed, writes JULIAN VIGO
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
FOR those of us working from home while homeschooling in the early weeks of the pandemic, the selective nature of who was asked to sacrifice in the name of “pandemic mitigation” became painfully clear.
It was no coincidence that the pyjama class of workers shared few burdens with the working class in terms of their role in virus mitigation.
The social media feed of those who earn their living from their dining room tables was contrasted with their social media feed which told of great sacrifice.
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