The Labour leadership’s narrow definition of ‘working people’ leads to distorted and unjust Budget calculations, where the unearned income of the super-wealthy doesn’t factor in at all, argues JON TRICKETT MP
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Creativity is at the heart of a healthy society
PETE STEVENSON is concerned that children have an extraordinary capacity to innovate, but they are encouraged by teachers and parents to grow out of creativity, to leave it behind to the detriment of society as a whole
Entertainment is part of an after-school programme, in Cienfuegos, sponsored by the Union of Writers and Artists in Cuba (UNEAC)
Brazilian workers are calling for internationalist brigades to defend Venezuela from US attack, reports WT WHITNEY JR
KEITH FLETT recalls ‘the most advanced political programme to appear on the left until the time of the Bolsheviks’
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY ask how an 80-tonne whale that lives 200 years is so resistant to cancer
Sixty years of blockade have not made Cuba collapse, but they have devastated it. While Washington stands isolated at the United Nations, the Cuban people are paying the price, writes KATRIEN DEMUYNCK
As Armistice Day approaches, with the far right hoping to use it to promote their own form of ‘patriotism,’ NICK WRIGHT considers the nature of conflicts in the 20th and 21st centuries and the different ways they should be remembered
I WORK as a teacher in schools promoting the values of cultural diversity and race equality through interactive storytelling workshops. It’s great to feel part of ongoing projects to challenge racism, which is sadly active in many parts of the country.
However, as I was packing away my African drums and glove puppets one afternoon, a teacher said: “It’s good to give the children something different, something fun.”
I reflected on this as I drove away and thought: “Is that what I do, just give them fun experiences? Surely I do more than that?”
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