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Is a 21st-century national government of class collaboration taking shape?
by NICK WRIGHT
Builders in south London make their views clear
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
THERESA MAY entered the referendum campaign totally committed to Britain remaining in the European Union.
She was then and is now a politician who puts the corporate interests of big business, into whose top ranks she is wedded, above the desires and needs of working people.
Big business, the banks, almost all of the City — save a minority of hedge fund speculators — the top Civil Service, military, intelligence and Foreign Office bigwigs, the liberal press and broadcast media have bent their backs to find a way to subvert the most decisive vote of the British people since Labour won the post-war election.
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