Our Making Wales Work plan champions employee buyouts, community-led co-operatives and social enterprises, and reversing managed decline. As 26 years of Labour in power comes to an end, we are the alternative, argues LUKE FLETCHER
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The SNP's 'constitutional' defence of capitalism
Working class Scottish Leave voters are being abandoned by the SNP - Labour must step in to champion their cause, argues VINCE MILLS
Socialist historian KEITH FLETT looks at the pronounced hostility the labour movement has had to giving the state the power to pry and identify dissidents, going back to the era of the ‘Freeborn Englishman’ and Captain Swing
The Renters Reform Bill is a big step in the right direction, but it won’t apply to Wales — we desperately need our own legislation to protect and respect tenants, to give them dignity and security, free from fear of eviction, writes SIAN GWENLLIAN MS, Plaid Cymru’s shadow cabinet secretary for housing and planning
ROBERT GRIFFITHS reports on talks with Raid Jahid Fahmi, general secretary of the Communist Party in Iraq, where sectarian power-sharing makes wielding state apparatus the ‘main domain of conflict’ and the struggling nation’s oil revenues are still held in US banks
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
HANK KENNEDY contends that US military attacks in the Caribbean amount to modern piracy driven by Venezuela’s oil wealth
IT IS sometimes hard to remember, given the constant repetition by the SNP leadership that “Scotland voted to Remain” in the 2016 Brexit referendum, that more than one million Scots, 1,018,322, voted for Britain to leave the EU, more than the 977,569 who voted for the SNP in the 2017 general election.
Incidentally, another little bit of obfuscation that Nicola Sturgeon and her acolytes like to indulge in is that the terms of the referendum allow us to assume how Scotland, if it were not part of Britain, would vote on EU membership. How many times have you heard Scottish Nationalists complain about Scotland “being dragged out of Europe?”
Given EU conditions on membership, for example on public spending limits which will be discussed below, assuming Scotland would vote for membership of the EU based on the 2016 vote when it was the membership of the United Kingdom that was being considered is either politically naive or politically dishonest.
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