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Stephen Kinnock’s cafe society
‘Having a coffee’ is hardly a sign of being insufferably middle class, writes REUBEN BARD-ROSENBERG
Capitalism has extracted itself from crisis before, argues PRABHAT PATNAIK – but through methods no longer available. So it is turning to authoritarianism, militarism and neocolonialism
The five young men killed in the A66 crash were responsible for a devastating tragedy — but the crash should force us to ask difficult questions about wider society, argues RENATA MEDEIROS MIRRA
Britain funds the policing of black culture 16 times better than the culture itself. The Diamond Jubilee is the moment to end that, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite Andy Burnham’s declaration defending the continued partition of the island, all major international and internal trends are converging to make Irish reunification inevitable
Humans are part of the ‘animal kingdom’ – and of nature in general – but also distinct from it and labour (work) is part of what makes us unique, declared Engels. His insights 150 years ago into how our species came to be and how we differ from the rest of nature, are as important today as they were then, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
I DO NOT like charades. Neither the elongated attempt at family entertainment that ruins everybody’s Christmas gatherings, nor the spectacle of Labour politicians pretending to talk about class.
The experience would be less painful if the likes of Stephen Kinnock weren’t so crap at picking cultural metaphors.
But alas we must listen to his razor-sharp analysis that “messages about fast-paced economic change and globalisation may go down well in coffee bars in London, but don’t speak to workers whose factories are closing down.”
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