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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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
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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
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KEIR STARMER made a new statement of his principles in a speech this month. Labour’s leadership are worried about criticism that Starmer doesn’t stand for anything, but are also reluctant to actually stand for too much, in case they upset the newspapers, so Starmer announced a new set of vague keywords — “security, prosperity, respect” — as his principles.
But Starmer is consistent on one theme — work should be hard.
In his latest relaunch speech, Starmer said that he was offering a “contract” where: “If we work hard, we should also have a right to job security,” one where “you will be expected to work hard.”
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