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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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
WHEN he was economic secretary to the Treasury, Sajid Javid once baffled a Japanese delegation when an interpreter translated his job-title as “cheap typist.”
It seems politicians north of the border haven’t fared much better with the perils of translation.
“Apologies if my sign language is even worse than my Gaelic,” Scottish Parliament presiding officer (speaker) Ken Macintosh said at the Scottish Parliament’s 20th anniversary situation.
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