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There is no future for Labour in bureaucratic centrism
The left-behind masses that Labour must represent — both to be a progressive party and to win elections — will not be won over by anything other than a politics that promises radical change, writes IAN LAVERY
Whilst the status quo might be working for establishment politicians and journalists, it certainly isn’t for millions of hard-working families up and down the country: people are looking for change, not a return to the centre
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
WITH the events of last week still reverberating in Labour circles, in the rest of the country the pandemic still rages, we have returned to lockdown and the Tories have again socialised the wages of millions of people.
In the US the Democrats are edging towards a victory that many thought only days ago was a foregone conclusion, with razor-thin majorities in an election with an unprecedented turnout.
Whilst many in the media and party establishments are keen to turn back the clock to the bureaucratic centrism that once defined the battleground in middle England and the suburban US, there can be no going back.
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