Labour movement history in Britain shows workers secured reforms through collective pressure and political representation, rather than being gifted from above, writes KEITH FLETT
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The real ‘humanitarian threat’ isn’t Cuba but the United States, where poverty, lack of healthcare and illiteracy abound, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
OF COURSE Theresa May and her minority government have made a dog’s breakfast of Brexit! What else could reasonably have been expected?
The Prime Minister, her Chancellor Philip Hammond and the majority of her original Cabinet were — and still are — in favour of Britain remaining in the European Union.
Like their predecessors David Cameron and George Osborne, they understand that the “free market” and monetarist treaties of the EU create the most lucrative framework for monopoly corporations in Britain and across Europe.
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