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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Marketing the ecological revolution through plastic
Plastic bag charges have merely shifted around ecological waste while doing little to lower overall pollution levels, writes JULIAN VIGO
A mountain of plastic at a recycling plant
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
LAST week it was announced that scientists found a 30 per cent drop in plastic bags on the sea floor in European countries where charges were introduced for plastic bags in shops.
And now there are plans for this charge to extend to small shops in England, taking the larger retail model to new heights. There is money to be made from this new “green” trend in reducing plastic bag waste, but digging a little deeper shows that this is merely more of a capitalist venture with very little ecological ethos within these measures.
If anything, these plastic bag charges have merely shifted around ecological waste while creating even more capital for those who produce these bags as the ecological damage to the Earth and its atmosphere has been as devastating as it has been profitable.
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