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Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
John McDonnell and Labour’s New Deal
McDonnell’s plan is not about filling in potholes. It is the wholesale transformation of how we live, work and protect, writes ALAN SIMPSON
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
One hundred years after 1.7m workers shut the country down in defence of the miners, the struggles that sparked the 1926 General Strike are still with us – and will be honoured on London’s May Day march this year, writes MARY ADOSSIDES
The Labour Growth Group and its think tank partner, the Good Growth Foundation, have taken funding from major lobbying firms linked to housebuilders, banks and Heathrow – raising questions about corporate influence at the heart of Starmer’s pro-growth project. SOLOMON HUGHES reports
The fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a registered nurse and union member, has sparked nationwide protests and renewed calls from National Nurses United to dismantle Ice and related agencies, says MARK GRUENBERG
A Vatican photo-op, a hard-right donor and a rhetoric of mass deportations reveal how appeals to ‘Christian values’ are being reshaped by Reform and Tory MPs, says SOLOMON HUGHES
WHEN former US president Franklyn Roosevelt launched his 1930s New Deal into the United State’s depression-era politics, wealthy elites in the American Liberty League were incandescent. Their denunciations focused on a claim that Roosevelt had “betrayed his own class.”
For fairly obvious reasons, Labour’s shadow chancellor John McDonnell will not face the same denunciations. But be in no doubt, the neoliberal right are already after him.
The Tory Party HQ has unleashed a pack of house-trained journalists and back-bench MPs, hounding the shadow chancellor with “Trivial Pursuit” questions about the annual cost of servicing government borrowing.
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