BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
Dodds sets out the economic groundwork for Labour to build on
The shadow chancellor announced promising ideas in her speech to Labour Connected. These can be developed by the movement but it’s essential an anti-cuts agenda is kept to the fore, writes JAMES MEADWAY
Shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds
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
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
The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research explores the factors that are bringing today’s highly educated but often underemployed young people out onto the streets, from Chile, to Algeria, to Nepal
The nation’s leading second-hand socialist bookseller that has been running strong for 33 years is changing hands and expanding its vision — now is the time to get involved, buy, donate and support, writes ANDREW MURRAY
SHADOW chancellor Anneliese Dodds is starting to put in place Labour’s economic vision for the election in 2024.
Her speech at the Labour Connected event, held in lieu of the party’s annual conference, underlined her opposition to austerity and support for jobs-friendly environmental investment.
And she took the Tory government to task for the extraordinary waste of public money and cronyism that has seen millions of pounds go to Conservative donors for testing kits that were unsafe, and outsourced contracts fail to deliver.
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